Learning while working

Don’t Leave On-the-Job Training to ChancePeople become experts at their job by learning while doing. But when your employees need to develop a new skill, how do you ensure they all receive the same experience if a trainer isn’t leading and guiding them? Most on-the-job training programs leave lea...

Teamwork in talent development

Develop Your Teamwork SkillsTeamwork allows us to engage in important work, and teams hold immense power. Those on teams share perspectives, brainstorm ideas, and produce results beyond what’s possible alone. With organizations relying increasingly on teams to deliver impact, teamwork skills are ...

Business acumen basics for talent development

It’s critical for talent development professionals to be able to play an influential role in an organization’s strategy development and execution. To do this, they need to be able to speak the business language and translate their knowledge into solutions that drive business results. In “Business...

Instructional design on a shoestring

Design Effective Training Programs Despite Limited ResourcesInstructional Design on a Shoestring offers talent development professionals a process for developing effective training programs, even with limited resources. Expert instructional designer Brian Washburn applies the ADDIE model of instr...

Measurement demystified field guide

The Bridge to Your L&D Measurement and Reporting StrategyBuilding measurement skills is critical for talent development professionals who seek to align their L&D programs to business outcomes for organizational success. Designed to improve your measurement capability and advance the measu...

The new social learning, 2nd edition

“Social learning is a fundamental shift in how people work leveraging how we have always worked, now with new, more humanizing tools, accelerating individual and collective reach, giving us the resources to create the organization, and the world, we want to live in.”In this newly revised and upda...

10 steps to successful budgeting

Calculate for Business SuccessThe budgeting process may produce anxiety, but it can be managed. The keys are planning, organization, documentation, preparation, and follow-up. The essence is plan first, budget later.10 Steps to Successful Budgeting walks you through the fundamentals, explaining y...

Roi at work

Bringing mindfulness to your workplace

Has your mind ever wandered during a meeting? Would you like to reduce stress and improve focus among your employees? Mindfulness training can help. Companies such as Google, General Mills, and the Huffington Post have implemented mindfulness programs and have experienced significant positive res...

Fully compliant

A Better Kind of Compliance TrainingCompliance training succeeds when you balance an organization’s legal responsibilities with the real needs of the employees who you hope will learn and change their behavior.In Fully Compliant, Travis Waugh challenges traditional compliance training that focuse...

Action-first learning

Game On! Action-Based Training Designs for Better Learning Passive learning just doesn’t cut it in today’s evolving, competitive workplace. Research demonstrates that action-first learning works because it engages the mind immediately and makes sure that knowledge and skills will stick. With a mo...

Blended learning

Today, All Learning Is Blended LearningModern learning audiences want flexibility and personalization—development on their terms. They need a blended approach to learning that lets them grow their skills and knowledge where they actually perform their work. When designed and implemented effective...

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...

Diversity, equity, and inclusion for trainers

Make DEI Training Foundational in Your OrganizationWhen done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on people’s vulnerabilities in all facets of their l...

Project management for trainers, 2nd edition

Define a development project before you start planning the details.A seat of the pants approach to project management is no longer viable. Today’s trainer is taking on truly unique projects—and often many at once. Whether you’re developing materials on unfamiliar topics or writing courses for oth...

Real world training evaluation

Is your program ready for the real world?Real world evaluation is a balance between art, science, accuracy, and cost. To set your program up for success, you need to start the measurement and evaluation journey with a clear destination in mind.In Real World Training Evaluation, Patricia and Jack ...

Capabilities for talent development

What Talent Development Professionals Should Know and Do to Be SuccessfulThe talent development field is deep and wide, encompassing the efforts that foster learning and employee development to drive organizational performance, productivity, and results. Major societal forces and business changes...

Storyboarding: the power of planning

Storyboards help you organize learning projects and catch mistakes before you sink time into developing an animated production. As such, every talent development professional who is developing a visual learning product needs to know how to create a storyboard. In “Storyboarding: The Power of Plan...

Evaluate learning with predictive learning analytics

A positive return on investment for training programs is a top concern for C-level executives and should be for L&D professionals too. Scrap learning—the time and money wasted on most training programs that are delivered but not applied on the job—is 45–85 percent. In this issue of TD at Work...

Needs assessment for organizational success

This valuable title links the fundamental training design technique of a needs assessment as a basis for all organizational improvement initiatives. Based on an Organizational Elements Model (OEM),authors Kaufman and Guerra-Lopez approach fully complete needs assessment as including not just need...

L&d's role in leading off-sites

The world is changing quickly, forcing companies to adapt just as fast. This requires diverse groups within organizations to come together to develop solutions. Off-sites can help leadership teams break away from the workplace to see challenges—and solutions—in a different light. In this issue of...

Design thinking meets addie

Looking for a fresh way to design your next learning program? Design thinking may be what you need. Design thinking is an approach to innovation that integrates people’s needs with the needs of their organization. “Design Thinking Meets ADDIE” shows how design thinking transformed one company...

Smes from the ground up

Sometimes SMEs can cause problems for your instructional design project. But have you done everything you could to understand, communicate with, and involve your SMEs successfully? From years of experience, there are guidelines for working well with everyone on the design team—but you must includ...

Crash and learn

Become a trusted partner to drive performance

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 b...

Power e-learning with stories

Humans are wired to remember stories. In fact, people are more—not less—likely to remember what they’ve learned if you teach knowledge, skills, and attitudes using a story structure. Further, e-learning is a hospitable host for stories because it can be an intimate experience between the learners...

Customer service training

Effective customer service training covers more than niceties.Organizational profitability is threatened when staff are unable to manage customer needs. Yet it takes more than soft skills training to turn these situations around. A great customer service training covers essential behaviors, servi...

How to choose a learning experience platform

A focus on personalization and user experience is transforming technology solutions from one-size-fits-all to curated environments that cater to end users’ unique needs. Learning experience platforms play into that paradigm shift by driving effectiveness through training delivery and user engagem...

Tap memory strategies for learning success

On a daily basis, people perform countless tasks without thinking about the act of doing them. By understanding the mechanisms of memory, including how information is stored in long-term memory, you can create optimal and effective learning experiences. In this issue of TD at Work, Alexandria Cla...

Innovation training

10 steps to successful time management

The funny thing about the phrase time management is that you can't really manage time. What you can do is manage yourself and your activities and thus save your life. Cyndi Maxey and Kevin E. O'Connor have written a book to help you do just that.If you're tired of scrambling frantically on the ha...

From average to awesome

Ever wish you had your own personal career and life coach, giving you advice and cheering you on? Now you do!Jim Smith Jr.'s energy and enthusiasm are contagious. Catch them—and enjoy your own journey From Average to Awesome.Start reading at any point because, like success, getting to awesome is ...

World-class selling

Premeditated selling

Winning a sale doesn’t happen by accident. Selling requires thoughtful preparation and flawless execution. Because no two sales opportunities are exactly the same, a seller must develop a sales strategy for each opportunity that’s as unique as the opportunity itself.Premeditated Selling: Developi...

Turning trainers into strategic business partners

As learning professionals, we need to make sound decisions about which talent development strategies to pursue, ones that will provide the biggest benefit to our organization. To do so, we must have information that guides us toward solutions that measurably help our organization achieve strategi...

Building learning capability through outsourcing (in action case study series)

Have you considered how outsourcing can help build your organization’s learning capability?Organizations in search of solutions to a variety of organizational problems have turned their attention more and more toward outsourcing. The workplace learning and performance (WLP) function seems to be a...

Revamp training to improve learners’ performance

Talent development professionals spend a lot of time brainstorming, researching, designing, developing, and then launching training programs. But the success rate with learning transfer is often low. So, how do you increase the learning transfer rate and ensure your efforts don’t go to waste? In ...

Career moves

Shifting demographics, economic turmoil, globalization, and a connected mobile culture have dramatically changed the workforce. Experienced career experts Caitlin Williams and Annabelle Reitman show you how to create your dream career by using and blending these changes in your career-planning pr...

Create an exceptional learning culture

Creating a learning organization of excellence gives a company a strategic advantage and enables it to stand out in today’s tight labor market. But many find that process overwhelming and simply don’t know where to start, so they never get their culture change off the ground. In “Create an Except...

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...

Learning and development in healthcare

The learning and development (L&D) needs of the healthcare industry are dramatically different from those of other businesses, making for unique challenges for the talent development field. Patients are not customers, for example, and healthcare’s learning audience is extremely segmented. Add...

Kirkpatrick's four levels of training evaluation

A timely update to a timeless model.Don Kirkpatrick's groundbreaking Four Levels of Training Evaluation is the most widely used training evaluation model in the world. Ask any group of trainers whether they rely on the model's four levels Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results in their practic...

Seeing the possibilities with augmented reality

Augmented reality is a powerful tool that can help organizations achieve learning goals, but there are also a lot of misconceptions surrounding what it really is. In “Seeing the Possibilities With Augmented Reality,” Debbie Richards clarifies these misunderstandings. Further, in this issue of TD ...

Play to learn

When trainers use games, learners win big.As a trainer interested in game design, you know that games are more effective than lectures. You've seen firsthand how immersive games hold learners' interest, helping them explore new skills and experience different points of view. But how do you become...

10 steps to be a successful manager, 2nd ed

There’s always room for improvement.It’s tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together to do their best work in the service of company goals—make no mistake, management is a people-driven job...

Teaching smes to train

The updated issue of “Teaching SMEs to Train” addresses the skills and traits trainers should look for in the SMEs they wish to collaborate with—including less tangible assets such as enthusiasm—trainer competencies to consider if the SME will be conducting the training session, and training deli...

Test development

Test Development: Fundamentals for Certification and Evaluation provides practical guidelines for the classical approach to test development – specifically for certification and credentialing. Most of the existing high-quality books on the topic of criterion-referenced test (CRT) development are ...

7 steps to better learning engagement

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 i...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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’ ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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: · ...

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...