Books by James Altschuld

The goal of Bridging the Gap is to provide a book that takes a competing approach to Needs Assessment and shows the alternative side - the capacity building and assets of communities and individuals.

This book provides numerous approaches for starting a meaningful needs assessment and provides readers with steps and case studies.

This book provides numerous approaches for starting a meaningful needs assessment

Offers an overview of how to: analyze two distinct types of data; pull them together in a meaningful way; and to derive priorities from the collation of the information that has been generated by the needs assessment. This text can help needs assessment committees (NACs) work through the complexities of analysis and subsequent prioritization.

A practical guide to needs assessment which offers practitioners a full resource to improving individual, group, organization or inter-organizational performance in the workplace

Going beyond the simple process of assessing needs to the implementation of solutions for resolving them, this sequel to the best seller, From Needs Assessment to Action shows you how the results of needs assessments can be transformed into action plans for an organization and the procedures for facilitating that change. Unique to this book is a detailed glossary of needs assessment terms.