This new version of the excellent The Learning and Development Handbook by Michelle Parry-Slater is a must-have for all today’s learning and performance professionals. Michelle’s forte is her gift of getting to the heart of what practitioners need to help them to perform their job better and having the ability to explain the concepts and relate them to their job. I do not know of anyone who does it as well and this book is testament to that. Besides being full of insightful advice, I particularly like how she includes extra information, help and advice at the end of each chapter. Here you will find: The Top Tips to help the reader to action real change; Thinking Questions to help reflection of the topics; The Action Plan of next steps to action; selected case studies and further reading materials. This is more than a book; it’s a real, practically-based Handbook for you to dip in and out of during your working week. Keep it close by!