Associates For Professional Development is a group of highly experienced organizational and individual performance specialists who are focused on achieving extraordinary results. Our commitment is to always provide services of the highest quality and to return exceptional value on the investments our clients make in us.

Developing relationships and building partnerships are essential components in defining the need for services and creating customized programs that produce results. Contact us for more information on how we can help you help your staff ascend to an even higher level of performance.


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December Breakfast and Learn

November 6th, 2009

AFPD sponsors a Breakfast and Learn program quarterly.  This quarter’s program will be held on Thursday, December 10, from 7:30-9:00 am, and the topic will be “Ensuring Success Through New Leader On-Boarding.”   We will be discussing  a variety of strategies that help our clients maximize the return on investment they make in a newly hired, promoted, or transferred leader.
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New Blog

November 4th, 2009

We have just launched a new blog site on the Associates for Professional Development website.  Look under the main menu for a link to register so you can comment on our posts.  Subscribe to our feed with the RSS link at the bottom of the page.  We’ll be adding new posts about our services.

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Northern Hospital Whitepaper

August 2nd, 2009

Development and implementation of a feedback process for employee evaluation
In June, 1998, Northern Hospital of Surry County implemented a new process for conducting employee evaluations organization-wide. This process, called a feedback process, was implemented as a result of extensive study of the needs of the organization, its employees, and the community it serves. The decisions [...]

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