Rapid video development for trainers

Rapid Video Development for Trainers meets the needs of companies and individuals who are thinking about or have dabbled in video production. Although producing focused, high quality video is well within the capability of nearly every development professional, the skill sets required to do so hav...

Beyond training ain't performance fieldbook

An essential companion manual to Training Ain't Performance, the Beyond Training Ain't Performance Fieldbook is an HPI theory implementation guide. The included CD-ROM features worksheets, assessments, tools, and practical advice that will propel your organization toward the performance approach.

Speak for a living, 2nd edition

Get into the business of speaking and training. There are dozens of books on public speaking. But only Speak for a Living will show you how to launch, build, and sustain a successful speaking and training career. Wondering whether making the leap into this industry is for you? In this revised and...

Quality management in learning and development

Develop a Quality Management System to Support Learner and Organizational GoalsQuality management is collectively all the activities and processes that ensure your learning products meet the standard your organization is committed to. All errors have consequences that compromise that standard. Or...

Designing virtual learning for application and impact

Show the value of virtual learning to demonstrate business impact.In Designing Virtual Learning for Application and Impact, virtual learning expert Cindy Huggett teams with evaluation experts Jack and Patti Phillips and learning transfer authority Emma Weber to create a guidebook for TD practitio...

Destination facilitation

Your Global Training Adventure AwaitsThe world may seem to be getting smaller and more familiar, but that doesn’t mean the same instructional techniques or training styles work everywhere. Organizations worldwide need talent development professionals who can design and deliver learning content th...

Building blocks of workplace inclusion

A diverse workplace isn’t necessarily an inclusive one. An inclusive workplace doesn’t just feature employees from a variety of backgrounds; it ensures that all those employees are treated with respect. In “Building Blocks of Workplace Inclusion,” Evelina Silveria and Jill Walters take you thro...

Not just another meeting

Create a fresh, intentional approach to meetingsWhen meetings draw employees away from day-to-day tasks but fail to reach their intended outcome, it has huge costs to the organization. All too often, this happens because meetings lack purpose—people gather together to discuss a problem but don’t ...

Sales kickoffs: guide and add value

Whether in person or remote, sales kickoffs prepare sales teams to meet company goals and objectives. They are also opportunities to celebrate those who exceeded their goals in the previous year. In this issue of TD at Work, Kathy Koultourides outlines the importance of SKOs. Further, she: Deta...

Applying learning theory to mobile learning

Mobile devices have become an important part of our daily lives and, because of our familiarity with the technology, present a terrific opportunity to enhance learning and development. But to incorporate mobile technology into training, we must first fully understand what mobile learning (m-learn...

Train the trainer, volume 1: foundations and delivery

An excellent starter pack for a training department of any size, Train the Trainer Volume 1, second edition: Foundations and Delivery: Become a Successful Trainer, delivers practical wisdom and essential tools designed to address the immediate needs of new trainers or...

Manager skills training

What makes one manager more successful than another? In a nutshell: the desire to keep learning and developing people skills. Even the most accomplished professional can continue to learn at every phase of his or her career. With Manager Skills Training you can become a catalyst for managerial gr...

Promoting emotional intelligence in organizations

Offers the tools to sell and implement emotional intelligence training in your organization.Emotional intelligence matters more than ever. Personal qualities such as resilience, optimism, and initiative have become crucial survival traits necessary for enduring the many changes affecting the Amer...

Surveys from start to finish

If you want to know what your employees or customers think, a survey may be the answer. But surveys provide valuable and accurate data only when they are conducted correctly. This issue of TD at Work will help you design and administer effective surveys. “Surveys From Start to Finish” offers ...

Communication skills training

Individuals, teams, and organizations are only as good as their ability to communicate effectively.Communication Skills Training offers the crucial tools you’ll need to help your workshop participants master the skills that drive performance. The first book in the ATD Workshop Series offers pract...

Trust in transition

Culture is the key to a successful change initiative. Organizations announce changes every day and expect, or at least hope, that people will react positively to them. The success, however, has everything to do with how leaders manage the transition.Trust in Transition breaks down the entire chan...

The building blocks of sales enablement

The Ultimate Sales Framework for Achieving Business SuccessSales enablement is no longer the new kid on the block. Having grown rapidly in recent years, it’s now considered a best practice at many sales organizations. But there’s little alignment across the sales profession on what sales enableme...

Connection culture, 2nd edition

Tap Into the Power of Human ConnectionCreating a thriving organization where employees feel valued, the environment is energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within the organization. Connection Culture, 2nd Ed...

Learning environments by design

Learning Environments by Design deeply explores today’s workplace learning. This book empowers you to customize learning for your workforce and unearths the answers to the questions you’ve been asking: How does learning happen? What is the future of instructional design? What makes learning envir...

New supervisor training

Prepare and establish new front-line leaders with training that develops essential supervisory skills. Investing in new supervisors increases productivity and organizational profitability, and it results in engaged, high-performing teams. Yet many new supervisors—the very people responsible for p...

Aha moments in talent management

Unleash greater potential from your talent by making people a top priority.Most executives would say that people are their most valuable asset; but even with the best intentions of putting employees first, companies can be held back by outdated policies. This business fable highlights 13 talent m...

Technology for trainers, 2nd edition

Turn your training vision into a workable, functional e-learning program. In this fully refreshed second edition, award-winning e-learning expert and technical educator Thomas Toth guides technology-hungry trainers through e-learning development—without the jargon. With brand-new chapters on mo...

Implementing training scorecards (in action case study series)

Employ a structure for establishing, tracking, compiling, and communicating training results. How do you know that your HR or training department has accomplished its objectives? A training scorecard enables you to evaluate your programs subjectively and standardize the tracking process. Impl...

Atd's handbook for consultants

Turn to the Definitive Guide for All Your Consulting Questions ATD’s Handbook for Consultants unpacks what it takes to run a successful consulting practice that delivers world-class solutions for clients all with the benefits of a self-directed work life.  As companies and organizations become in...

Enhancing accessibility in virtual training environments

Accessibility is not just for self-paced e-learning or to comply with laws such as Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If trainers truly want to be effective during virtual-instructor-led training, they will increase and enhance accessibility to reach as many learners as possible. In ...

Organizational coaching

Written by a team of three behavioral practitioners, Organizational Coaching is based on the best practices of a wide range of private sector, government, and not-for-profit organizations. The authors provide a complete systems approach to enable any workplace learning professional to develop an ...

L&d’s playbook for the digital age

Build a Modern L&D TeamOrganizations are facing an era of rapid acceleration. As new technology and digital strategies are integrated, workers at all levels will be required to build capability much faster than before, navigating more complex systems and processes. Yet, learning and developme...

Speak for a living

The unashamed guide to virtual management

Manage Virtual Teams for Maximum ResultsWorking remotely is a reality of today’s and tomorrow’s workforce. With organizations switching from a model of only on-site employees to on-site and virtual employees working globally, managers need guidance on how to address the traditional and not-so-tra...

Lies about learning

Understand where myth and reality diverge in the multi-billion dollar workplace learning industry. Lies About Learning offers rare insight into the business of organizational learning, exposing the prevalent myths and offering the counterweight of reality and real world practice. With detaile...

Lead with your customer, 2nd edition

Your one-stop shop for world-class resultsThe most admired organizations in the world have the same basic resources that you have—offices, computers, pencils, pens, phones, Internet, people. The primary difference is the way they use those resources. How do successful organizations consistently s...

Equip healthcare practitioners for telemedicine

Telehealth is here to stay. The pandemic’s surge in March 2020 elevated telemedicine as a primary source of care among medical practitioners as they incorporated quarantine lifestyles and social distancing practices. In this issue of TD at Work, Katie Voss Mohamed details how L&D professional...

Needs assessment basics, 2nd edition

Go from order-taker to valued performance consultant. You may be pressured to give an immediate “yes” to a training request. Resist. Instead, start playing an essential role in driving your organization forward by using needs assessment to target your training programs to support critical busines...

Producing virtual training, meetings, and webinars

Master the Production of Virtual Events and Improve EngagementHave you ever found yourself confidently delivering content for a virtual training session, webinar, or online meeting only to have a participant drop off? Or, have you bravely launched breakout sessions but found that participants got...

Career development basics

This book is now available as an ebook through ASTD's new service: Content Express!Even in the best financial times, career development is often relegated to the back of the bus because it's seen as a short-term cost rather than a long-term investment with lasting impact. But the reality is that ...

Beyond learning objectives

Today's organizations demand a focus on higher-level objectives—objectives that clearly provide business impact and value and satisfy the expectations of a wide range of key stakeholders.If you're involved in implementing projects, programs, initiatives, or solutions in your organization, Beyond ...

Tdbok™ guide

The Definitive Resource for the Talent Development ProfessionThe TDBoK™ Guide: Talent Development Body of Knowledge, second edition, is a comprehensive collection of TD concepts, definitions, methodologies, and examples that lays the foundation and guiding principles for those who develop talent ...

E-learning design on a shoestring

Design Effective E-Learning Courses Despite Limited Resources Have you suddenly been asked to put together an e-learning course, but you have limited experience, time, or resources to do so? This happens often, and you’re not alone. E-Learning Design on a Shoestring offers talent development prof...

Atd's handbook for training and talent development

Start, Build, and Navigate Your Training and TD CareerATD’s Handbook for Training and Talent Development is the premier resource and compendium of everything a training and talent development (TD) professional needs to know to start, build, and navigate a thriving career. Now in its third editio...

Learning on demand

Learning on Demand presents new ideas around the topic of web-enabled instruction, challenging long-held beliefs about proper ‘design’ and the methods for engaging students. Drawing on technology trends, this book shows that accessibility of information on demand overshadows ‘interactive design’ ...

Interact and engage, 2nd edition

Ignite Online Events and Virtual Training with the Use of Well-Designed and Facilitated ActivitiesCreating outstanding virtual meetings, webinars, and training programs has always been challenging for novice and experienced instructional designers and facilitators alike. Virtual learning experts ...

Training design basics, 2nd edition

If you are designing a training program for the first time, this practical book is for you. Part of ATD’s Training Basics series, it zeroes in on how to design successful training for the face-to-face or virtual classroom. It also serves as a guide for developing self-study training programs, suc...

10 steps to successful virtual presentations

Whether you're presenting training exercises, team meetings or a sales pitch, you can present like a pro, deal with technological glitches, appear calm under pressure, and deliver value-packed virtual presentations. Millions of web meetings take place every day, yet they are often boring, poorly ...

Evaluation basics, 2nd edition

Your training: Do they love it or live it? How do training professionals show the impact their programs are making? Positive feedback only goes so far in confirming success. And entertainment value, while important, isn't the truest measure of your effectiveness. To find out whether your particip...

Creating engaged employees

Maintaining high employee engagement is key to business success.Research shows that many members of today’s workforce feel overworked and underappreciated—all factors that attribute to high turnover, low customer satisfaction, increased incidences of health and safety problems, and low productivi...

Conscious accountability

Elevate Your Work and Relationships Through Conscious AccountabilityResults and relationships—managers and leaders no longer have to prioritize one over the other to build a culture of exceptional accountability. You don’t have to choose between being the hard-charging task master and being the e...

Building the skills-based organization

Make Employee Skills the Currency Within Your Organization In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are recognizing the critical importance of employees’ skills as a catalyst for organizational success. This is a fundamental change from focusing on job titles, position creden...

Master a career transition

Are you considering venturing out as an independent contractor? Or maybe you are contemplating retirement. It’s important to have a plan in place to ensure your career transition is successful and leads to a fulfilling future. In this issue of TD at Work, Lisa J. Downs details how to: Determine...

Leaders don't command

It’s not enough to get a team to work, you need them to invest their hearts and minds. Managers are currently faced with the most uncertain environment in history. How can we lead our teams to create and seize opportunities? How do we navigate through the fog in our brains and the overworked staf...

Learning science for instructional designers

Ensure Your Instructional Design Stands Up to Learning ScienceLearning science is a professional imperative for instructional designers. In fact, instructional design is applied learning science. To create effective learning experiences that engage, we need to know how learning works and what fac...

Leaders: learn to attract top talent

How do senior leaders differentiate their companies from the competition? By hiring top talent. In this issue of TD at Work, James M. Kerr and Steven Kenney speak to senior leaders about how they can work with talent development professionals and put in place practices to attract quality employee...

The four levels of evaluation—an update

Savvy business professionals and enlightened organizations know that training has no value unless what is learned gets applied on the job, and the subsequent on-the-job performance contributes to key organizational outcomes. This issue of TD at Work will help you create an effective training eval...

Change basics

A single reference source for understanding, leading, and managing the change process to skillfully translate vision into results.Change Basics will enable you to skillfully introduce and manage change. With an essential background on reasons for initial resistance and an analysis of possible...

Training design and delivery, 3rd edition

Develop training content that adheres to today’s demanding standards.Master trainer Geri McArdle’s refresh of Training Design and Delivery makes accessible the proven principles and tools that countless trainers rely on. Her third edition highlights new training delivery systems that have had an ...

Learning personas: beyond demographics

When talent development professionals know more about their learners’ interests, knowledge gaps, learning preferences, and amount of discretionary time for learning, they can offer products that better meet individuals’ learning needs. Learning personas help TD professionals expand that knowledge...

Consulting on the inside, 2nd ed.

Are you an internal consultant—a staff member who serves in a consultative role within your organization? Then you need this hands-on guidebook to help you better understand your role and improve your performance.Whether you're a change agent, trusted advisor, or someone who serves in varying cap...

The astd management development handbook

The ASTD Management Development Handbook is a powerful collection covering many aspects of management in today’s business climate. Deftly edited by management expert Lisa Haneberg, The ASTD Management Development Handbook provides insightful thinking from modern management professionals who are i...

Effective management

In any organization, there are key players—individuals who set the tone and the culture. Effective Management offers tips for them to become the instruments of change. The keys in this book will help managers support teams of people who rise to the occasion, solve problems proactively, and take a...

Measuring the success of coaching

How can you develop an effective means for measuring return on investment (ROI) in coaching? With its two dedicated sections, Measuring the Success of Coaching discusses both the principles behind measuring ROI in coaching (including specific protocols for objectively measuring ROI in coaching pr...

Managing incompetence

Day-in, day-out, managers and supervisors face a myriad of personalities in the workplace. Managing these individual characters can sometimes drive even the calmest boss into a frenzy. Here, for the first time in English, is a humorous, yet practical and effective title on how to deal with all th...

Instructional story design

Once Upon a Time, Storytelling Met Instructional Design From children to adults, everybody likes a good story. Stories are memorable, actionable, and emotional. We are constantly making sense of the world by forming stories, and that makes them perfect for instructional design.Instructional Story...

Card games by thiagi (facilitator's guide)

Think like a marketer, train like an l&d pro

Use Marketing Strategies to Captivate and Persuade Your Audience At first glance, marketing and L&D may seem like an unlikely combination. But on closer inspection, both fields share two core goals: getting people’s attention and influencing their behavior. Marketing involves captivating, per...

Beyond free coffee & donuts

A one-stop resource for developing creative ways to ensure the right people learn the right skills and produce the right results. Getting butts in seats is not a measure of success nor is it a guarantee that your messages will be heard. Beyond Free Coffee & Donuts will help you get the wo...

Data & analytics for instructional designers

Add Data and Analytics to Your TD ToolkitInstructional design pro Megan Torrance addresses the importance of instructional designers accessing and applying learning and performance data—from how to design learning experiences with data collection in mind to how to use the data to improve and eval...

The l&d consultant’s project life cycle

Whether you are responsible for managing an L&D consultant or you are the person on assignment, the surest path to success is to understand what to expect before, during, and after a consulting engagement. Using the framework within this guide will help you to foster deeper relationships and ...

Measurement and evaluation on a shoestring 

Are you being asked to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the learning programs you created for your company, but don’t know where to start and have limited resources? Measure Learning Impact Despite Limited Resources Year after year, talent development professionals report that lack of ti...

Measuring the success of sales training

It has never been more important to show examples of sales skills at work. The process to evaluate these skills is sometimes perceived as straightforward and routine, simply a matter of tracking the sales gains after the program has been conducted. But credibly Measuring the Success of Sales Trai...

7 paths to managerial leadership

Put timeless management practices to work. The most important relationship is between a manager and a direct report. Studies confirm that the majority of people leave their jobs because they dislike their manager and the way they are supervised. After all, managers directly influence staff enga...

10 steps to successful change management

Change is inevitable, and how we handle it determines a great deal of our success in life. Fortunately, 10 Steps to Successful Change Management can help you understand change and take proactive steps toward dealing with it. With this handy go-to resource as your guide, you can understand and eva...

Performance analysis and consulting (in action case study series)

If your organization is looking for ways to improve performance, here's a source for proven systems, processes, and models from HRD experts. Twelve cases provide practical applications of performance analysis and consulting.

Self-directed learning made simple

Life is busy and time is limited, but self-directed learning allows individuals to learn at their own pace and on their own time. Self-directed learning opens opportunities for L&D professionals to help individuals grow and learn. In this issue of TD at Work, Amanda Smith details: · ...

Leading with wisdom

In Leading With Wisdom, Jann Freed takes the several years she spent interviewing more than 100 respected leaders, and distills their advice into eight practices that underpin leaders who connect and inspire others to achieve high performance. She takes the words of heavyweights such as Warren Be...

Aligning instructional design with business goals

Evaluation-oriented instructional design that delivers business results. Rethink how to design training instruction to meet bottom-line business goals. With his eight-step framework for measurement and evaluation-focused instructional design, Kristopher Newbauer offers a straightforward process f...

Executive dashboards to win the c-suite

As a learning and development professional, you know your work has value, but it can be challenging to show that value to your organizational leaders. An executive dashboard that showcases important metrics may be the answer! In “Executive Dashboards to Win Over the C-Suite,” Preethi Anand takes ...

Measuring the success of employee engagement

Employee engagement, impact, ROI—if you can’t connect the three, your program’s in trouble.The number of employees who sleepwalk through the day or undermine the work of their engaged counterparts is on the rise. More and more companies are turning to engagement programs to recoup lost revenue an...

The executive coaching playbook

This turnkey guide helps you build a successful executive coaching framework and practice.The Executive Coaching Playbook offers experienced and newly minted executive coaches a complete framework for building your coaching skills and business with proven results. Beyond offering the ultimate, pr...

Success in selling

Success in Selling: Developing a World-Class Sales Ecosystem presents timely research on key trends reshaping today’s sales profession and introduces the new ATD World-Class Sales Competency Model.An indispensable reference for assembling a world-class sales force, Success in Selling offers a sig...

10 steps to successful coaching, 2nd edition

Build Your Coaching Skills to Develop OthersCoaching has the power to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon goals, make better decisions, and produce results. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching offers meaningful advice to...

Atd's handbook for measuring and evaluating training

Get the A-to-Z Resource on Training Evaluation Fully revised and updated, ATD’s Handbook for Measuring and Evaluating Training is the comprehensive go-to reference for talent development professionals in need of immediate measurement and evaluation (M&E) guidance. Edited by M&E powerhouse...

Project management for l&d purposes

Learning the foundations of project management practices can help you deliver results for your projects. That’s why the Project Management Institute (PMI) refers to project management skills, such as time management, communication skills, scheduling, and troubleshooting, as life skills. Project m...

Learning that clics

Make Learning Stick Through Deeper AnalysisAchieving lasting learning starts with understanding our psychology—how we process, retain, and apply learning in our everyday work. It also starts with understanding how our brains work and how they receive, process, encode, and recall information—the e...

A tech guide to learning ecosystems

Learning ecosystems bring people together with technology, content, and data for continuous employee learning and growth. They are especially important during times when innovation and creativity are needed. In this issue of TD at Work, Becky Willis details why you need to consider a learning eco...

Troubleshooting for trainers

Your Fix-It Guide to TrainingWhen you need to repair an appliance on the fritz, you can consult the instruction manual. But if you’re stuck when designing or facilitating training, what resource can you turn to for solutions to your problem?Part troubleshooting guide, part introduction to trainin...

Lay the groundwork for lms success

A learning management system is the cornerstone of any organization’s online training and development process. Like buying a car, purchasing an LMS is a significant investment and requires care and consideration. In “Lay the Groundwork for LMS Success,” Konstance Allen unpacks the process for cho...

Immersive learning

Use immersive learning design to train others using new technology. Discover a framework for thinking in terms of immersive learning design. Outline the process of designing for immersion. See real examples of organizations that have applied these principles to solve learning and performance chal...

The modern learning ecosystem

Reimagine the Role of L&D in the Modern Workplace How can we possibly keep up? This question is front and center in today’s workplace thanks to the downright ridiculous pace of change. There’s a never-ending stream of new processes, regulations, products, and technologies with which employees...

What’s your formula?

Your Periodic Table of Learning ElementsEngaging, effective training programs are a mixture of science and art, requiring the right balance of adult learning theory, available technology, intuitive tools, proven practices, creativity, and risk. How does a trainer find the right combination and p...

Communication basics

This book takes a new look at a subject that is at the heart of all human activity—communication. Specifically designed to help you become an effective communicator, this book gives you the tools and knowledge to connect with and influence your audience whether that audience is a jam-packed audi...

Measuring the success of learning through technology

Learn to measure the results of your technology-based learning programs with this step-by-step guide.Few would dispute the convenience, cost, and efficiency of learning through technology. Whether e-learning, blended learning, or mobile learning, it’s usually just in time, just enough, and just f...

Ultimate basic business skills

Having a copy of Ultimate Basic Business Skills: Training an Effective Workforce on your bookshelf is like having an on-call business training department. This book offers ready-to-present programs on the most critical frontline business skills every member of your organization needs. Too often t...

Cutting through the noise

Managers are flooded with theories, concepts, and ideas for how to improve employee engagement—but what works, and what doesn’t? This book helps managers cut through the clutter of all those strategies and find the one that works for them. Beginning with the myths and realities of employee engage...

Prioritize inclusivity in your training sessions

Increased diversity—and individuals’ comfort level with sharing who they are and their needs—is a new reality in the workplace, and it is making its way into the training room. Trainers, facilitators, and talent development professionals have long recognized that the best learning occurs in envir...

The art of executive coaching

Embrace the Power of Executive CoachingAs businesses become more complex, they tend to lean on their high performers to fend off competitors, innovate, and pivot to unexplored markets. But who do these executives and leaders turn to when they need to refine their own skills?Executive coaches. In ...

Measuring and maximizing the impact of talent development

Talent development is not just about supporting individuals. Both the individual and organizational aspects of talent must come together for companies to meet strategic goals and achieve organizational effectiveness. In “Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent Development,” Alec Levenson ex...

Focus first on results

To distinguish an L&D program that affects learner behavior, you must put results first. Doing so helps you show the value of your work as a learning consultant and demonstrate the value of L&D activities. In this issue of TD at Work, Chris Adams and Beth Hughes introduce the Results Come...

Secrets to successful sme projects

Subject matter experts (SMEs) play a valuable role in any learning program, but working with them is not always easy. In “Secrets to Successful SME Projects,” Sarah Wakefield and Patty Murdock explain how training developers can cultivate a productive relationship with their SMEs. This issue ...