Improving Formal Learning With Social Media

Social media’s widespread use and range of tools present a host of opportunities to improve formal learning. Creating communities, as well as finding and sharing ideas, is much easier to achieve in 2015 than ever before. If you use the tools well, you can make formal learning more effective and e...

Real World Training Design

Are you a learning and development professional responsible for creating training programs for your organization? If so, you probably know that every training project faces the constraints of time, cost, and quality. Real World Training Design employs the time-tested ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Deve...

6 Steps to Moving Your Training Online

What instructional topics are the best candidates for virtual classrooms? How can I know if I’m reaching my learners when I can’t see their faces? Can’t I just move my PowerPoint slides to a virtual platform? Starting off in the virtual training world presents a variety of questions. “6 Step...

The Virtual Training Guidebook

The Definitive A-to-Z Guidebook on Virtual Training Is your virtual training getting the results you want? The ability to deliver training at any time and to any location allows maximum flexibility for organizations and learners, which ultimately means more training opportunities than in-person c...

Creating Mentoring and Coaching Programs

Are Mentoring and Coaching Programs Effectively Employed in Your Organization? Coaching and mentoring have become essential organizational tools for developing people. HR managers, T&D specialists, and performance technologists will find useful tools in the 12 case studies in this volume. The...

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 ...

Marketing Your Career Brand

In the past, your career brand was expressed primarily through a traditional resume. Today, your brand encompasses every way you promote yourself, both in electronic and more traditional formats. “Marketing Your Career Brand” will help you identify needs of your customers—whether they are potenti...

WLP Scorecard: Why Learning Matters

Target Learning With Curation

Information is more readily available, thanks to technology, but learners are struggling with content overload. Learning boards can help engage employees’ knowledge and reduce how much content they wade through. In this issue of TD at Work, Michelle Webb and Jerry M. Kaminski detail ways to devel...

Future Skill the Workforce

The pandemic has fast-tracked many business changes, which require technological skills, the ability to quickly partner with others, and swift and seamless adaptability to change. For talent development professionals, the changes mean revisiting how they develop workers and ensure a culture of re...

Cultivate Creative Thinking for the Future of Work

Demand for creative thinking is currently outpacing supply. Despite that need, creative thinking is one of the skills most lacking in job candidates. The good news is that creative thinking is a trainable skill. In this issue of TD at Work, Gerard J. Puccio and Pamela A. Szalay will: Explain the...

10 Steps to Successful Project Management

A crash course for effectively planning and managing timely, organized projects. 10 Steps to Successful Project Management features a structured methodology for delivering high-quality projects on time. Learn how to distinguish between a project and task, build a convincing business case, def...

Corporate Learning Strategies

Use the return-on-learning-investment (ROLI ) model to develop fully engaged employees that link their learning to organizational success. Corporate Learning Strategies is a blueprint for building organizational structures that cultivate employee growth. The adoption of the return-on-learni...

Work the Problem

Cultivate the Mindset to Overcome AnythingA software engineer sees her tech skills slipping even as she rises to manage her own team. A marketing director is squeezed between a demanding, artistic boss and her staff. A tech-savvy manager of operations wants to modernize his warehouse but is surpr...

Solving the Innovation Mystery

Creativity dreams up ideas, but innovation carries them through. There isn't a CEO on the planet who hasn't considered the importance of innovation. In the face of global competition and the explosion of technology, innovation is today's business imperative. How else does a company remain both pr...

Integrated Talent Management Scorecards

The term “integrated talent management” has been in vogue for several years, yet organizations are still trying to understand how to integrate talent management functions to achieve business results. Authors Toni Hodges DeTuncq and Lynn Schmidt use case studies from 17 different organizations to ...

Measuring and Addressing Talent Gaps Globally

A global corporate mindset has become increasingly critical in today’s business environment. Yet managers and workers who have little or no exposure to other cultures may have a difficult time acknowledging that a talent development strategy with a global perspective is essential to their success...

Leaders Start to Finish, 2nd Edition

Are you responsible for creating a leadership training program for your organization, but don’t know where to start? Do you already have experience in developing leadership training programs, but want to improve the efficacy of your current offering? Either way, Leaders – Start to Finish offers d...

The Learning and Development Book

Everyone thinks they know everything about training. Right? We've all gone to school, been trained on the job, and maybe endured the occasional corporate seminar. But if you're a professional in this field, you know that's familiarity, not expertise. Instructional design and implementation are no...

Maximizing the Power of Microlearning

Incorporate Microlearning Campaigns to Reach Business Goals Whether you’re an L&D veteran who has “been there, done that” or are just starting out, it’s time to get smarter about microlearning, and expert Robyn A. Defelice can help. Expanding on her first groundbreaking book, Microlearning: S...

Learning That Lasts

Make Learning Stick Through Reflection Activities Employees today crave development, growth, and skill building. They also want more meaning and connection at work. When they learn to reflect on training experiences intentionally, they get all that and more. Pausing to reflect makes it easier to ...

Land Your Next L&D Role

Your Road Map to Career Success There has never been a better time to invest in your own L&D career. No matter where you are in your L&D career, expert career coach and L&D luminary Sarah Cannistra delivers tactical and industry-specific advice for how to conduct and succeed in your n...

The Frontline Enablement Playbook

Your frontline employees are the face of your business—and the key to your success. From retail associates and restaurant servers to healthcare workers, delivery drivers, and skilled tradespeople, frontline employees make up 80% of the global workforce. Yet most workplace strategies, technologies...

The AI Implementation Guide for L&D

Successfully Implement AI in L&D, the Learner Experience, and Your Organization The AI Implementation Guide for L&D is a practical, forward-thinking resource for L&D leaders and practitioners who are navigating the integration of AI within their organizations and looking to drive mean...

Building a Culture of Evaluation

Drive Organizational Performance Through Evaluation Organizations that embed evaluation into their culture and operations can pivot faster, innovate more effectively, and foster a growth mindset. Evaluation thus becomes a tool for learning and continuous improvement. Building a Culture of Evaluat...