Become an Expert AI User and Strategy Leader

Artificial intelligence (AI) and performance expert Josh Cavalier shares his in-depth knowledge and skills to help L&D professionals master learning experience design by using generative AI in their employee learning and development efforts. More than just a technical manual on generative AI or a collection of best prompt practices, this book explores how AI is reshaping jobs, skill development, and human performance. Cavalier provides his Learning and Development AI Ecosystem framework as a practical road map for integrating AI into your day-to-day work and your organization.

Discover how to seamlessly incorporate AI into your existing L&D processes and broader L&D ecosystem, optimizing workflows and driving measurable results. Explore how AI-enabled L&D platforms can facilitate personalized learning paths, automated performance support, and real-time skills gap analysis. Learn how to craft effective prompts for learning design and use chatbots and AI assistants for help in the moment of need. And importantly, dive deep into the ethical considerations, from maintaining data privacy and security to mitigating bias in AI-powered learning solutions.

No matter how advanced artificial intelligence becomes, L&D professionals must remain focused on performance—both of humans and now machines. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting your AI journey, this book is your essential resource to unleash the power of AI in L&D.

Motivate and Engage Learners to Drive Your Business Forward

Organizations that prioritize employee learning are best positioned to thrive in our rapidly evolving business landscape. Veteran learning strategist Becky Willis demonstrates how an organization can achieve stellar learning engagement in seven simple steps and then turn that engagement into business value and a powerful competitive advantage.

Willis writes this book for those who have strategic responsibility for integrating learning into broader organizational initiatives—whether they are learning leaders, HR professionals, L&D practitioners, or other talent development (TD) professionals. After demonstrating why engagement is important, she walks you through the step-by-step process of devising and communicating a clear strategy for learning engagement, selecting and implementing the right technology, recruiting and deploying champions, mastering the art of marketing learning experiences, and creating the right learning designs for career development. She helps you learn to work with leaders and managers to sponsor, support, and collaborate on learning.

Each chapter includes stories, tools, and templates to ensure TD pros and learning designers can translate ideas into practical actions immediately. With this book in hand, you will have what you need to become an effective business partner who enhances employees’ knowledge, skills, and commitment to the organization and drives positive bottom-line results. Willis shows you how to make changes today that will help your organization value and deploy learning content successfully tomorrow.

Invest in Leaders at All Levels as a Key Part of Your Business Strategy

Drawing on nearly three decades of experience across sales operations, technology consulting, and talent development, Tina Schust Robinson offers a much-needed reimagining of leadership development. She guides all leadership investors—from founders, executives, and frontline managers to those doing the hands-on design and delivery work—toward a more holistic and successful development approach.

Making a powerful business case for investing intentionally in leaders, Robinson explores why leadership investment is a crucial aspect of any business strategy and what characteristics define a good leader. She shows how leadership investors can craft initiatives that are tied to their organization’s and employees’ specific needs, sustainable over time, and highly effective. Moving beyond quick fixes and one-off programs, Robinson makes a practical case for why investing intentionally in leaders is a crucial aspect of any business strategy.

This book shares Robinson’s one-to-one, one-to-many, and one-to-all leadership investment framework. It demonstrates how organizations can pursue coaching and mentoring for individuals, improve leadership training for groups, and develop a comprehensive strategy to address leadership development throughout the talent life cycle.

Interviews with successful corporate and nonprofit leaders and talent development pros bring the three-pronged framework into action. Checklists, assessments, and exercises allow leadership investors to apply the framework immediately and tailor their solutions to specific audiences and business needs.

Whether you’re leading a team or shaping an entire organization, this book will change how you think about leadership—and the return it can deliver when you invest wisely.

In this issue of TD at Work, Lindsay Bernhagen and Al Dea explain how artificial-intelligence coaching can strengthen leadership development by giving more people more opportunities to reflect, experiment, and grow in the flow of work. You’ll learn:

• What AI coaching is and how it differs from traditional coaching approaches
• What it means for leadership development
• What to look for in a high-quality AI coaching solution
• How to implement the technology successfully in your organization

The Tools & Resources in this issue include a Worksheet: Ready to Launch AI Coaching? and a Checklist: Choose the Right AI Coaching Partner.

In this issue of TD at Work, Danielle Wallace shares how talent development professionals can connect learning to performance and build meaningful partnerships across the organization to support the business and help shape the organization’s future. Wallace offers guidance on how to:

• Know your business.
• Understand what matters most to business leaders and align your work to their goals.
• Develop an advisor mindset.
• Ask meaningful questions and speak stakeholders’ language.
• Collaborate early and often.
• Demonstrate business impact using metrics.
• Rebuild trust when relationships stall.
• Sustain alignment over time.

The Tools & Resources in this issue include a Conversation Guide: Align TD With Department Priorities, and a Worksheet: Business Context and External Factors. A Bonus Tools & Resources is a Checklist: Business .