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ATD Human Capital
Signs of a Learning Culture
ATD Human Capital
MARCH 9, 2015
How do you know your organization has a learning culture? What do you see people doing? How are people learning? Here are 16 signs to indicate if your organization is making progress. Click here to read full version
Employee Engagement Spectrum: Myths Versus Facts
ATD Human Capital
MAY 6, 2015
Stats on employee engagement can be scary. But Tracy Maylett reminds leaders that engagement isn’t binary, it’s a continuum. In fact, a nalysis of more than 16 million engagement survey responses reveals that engagement can be broken into four basic categories. Click here to read full version
Your Disengaged Employees Don’t Trust You
ATD Human Capital
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Employee engagement is a good news/bad news proposition. On the bright side, employee engagement is at its highest level since 2000, and overall employee engagement was up 2 percent from 2013 to 2014, per a January 2015 Gallup poll. Overall, 31.5 percent of U.S. employees are engaged at work. This is a good statistic, but only in the “sort of” sense. There’s also bad news.
Talent Managers: Work With Your Manufacturing Professionals, Too
ATD Human Capital
DECEMBER 8, 2015
Most manufacturing professionals are experts in managing quality standards, projects, process documentation, audits, and supply chain functions. But what about managing the skill set of their workforce? deliver the goods and services required by your customers. develop your future skill set. optimize the use of your existing skill set. Here are five critical steps for supply and demand analysis.
Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance
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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.
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Making the Case for Employee Engagement Efforts
ATD Human Capital
APRIL 16, 2015
To be proactive about increasing employee engagement, organizational leaders must become the driving force—making engagement a business and strategic imperative. In order to maximize their efforts on employee engagement, successful businesses will need to evolve from an organization-centric to a people-centric mentality. Click here to read full version
Gender Diversity Among the Ranks of Leadership Pays Off
ATD Human Capital
JULY 21, 2015
Even though the number of women among the ranks of leadership is lacking, the business case for gender diversity has never been stronger. Let’s take a look at what’s holding women leaders back. Click here to read full version
Frontline Leaders Need Development Too
ATD Human Capital
AUGUST 11, 2015
To effectively manage their teams, frontline leaders need development in key skills that will enable them to understand and foster the success of individual employees. Here are some critical skills leadership development should focus on. Click here to read full version
The Microeconomics of Human Capital
ATD Human Capital
JULY 8, 2015
Let’s consider human capital a branch of microeconomics, a study of how the scarcity of workers impacts your company’s decisions about operating performance and expansion of market share. In other words, it’s time to examine how your remaining workers, after the economic downturn, are your only “supply and demand” option for filling the skills gap with fewer workers.
Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]
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Is your company ready to move beyond the annual performance review? Where do you start? What are the keys to success? In this guide, you’ll gain an understanding of: the forces driving change, three foundations of success and take a deep dive into the skills gap many managers have that will sink your efforts before they start and how to address them.
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Developing a Learning Culture: An Infographic
ATD Human Capital
JANUARY 25, 2015
This ATD infographic highlights some vital data concerning why you should build a learning culture in your organization. Click here to read full version
Positive Change Management Starts With Yourself
ATD Human Capital
OCTOBER 21, 2015
How easy is it for you to maintain a positive attitude in a stressful situation? Do you naturally look for ways such circumstances will benefit your learning and development ? Cultivating this positivity can help us manage the emotions that come along with change. Change is inevitable, but suffering with the change is self-induced. Prevent a Spiral. This change had a ripple effect. &rdquo
The Purpose of Performance Management: Redefining Aspirations
ATD Human Capital
MAY 26, 2015
There is no single best design, but all organizations will realize the value of performance management if they 1) define the objectives they are trying to achieve and 2) focus squarely on the performance management practices and, especially, the behaviors that matter most in driving improved performance. Click here to read full version
3 Key Questions to Integrate Talent Management into the Business
ATD Human Capital
MARCH 23, 2015
t’s important meet with colleagues in non-TD functions to ensure your talent management processes are optimized. Use these questions to help guide your efforts. Click here to read full version
Innovation Buster: How Losing Your Best Employees is Killing Innovation
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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.
Introducing the Leadership Capital Index—Intersection of Human Capital and Investors
ATD Human Capital
MARCH 30, 2015
HR drives positive employee outcomes, helps execute business strategies, and enhances customer share. But HR’s value may be further enhanced when it demonstrates the impact on a firm’s financial performance, focused on market value. Human capital thought leader Dave Ulrich introduces the Leadership Capital Index, a thorough way to link leadership to a firm''s market value.
Is Kindness the Missing Link to Employee Performance
ATD Human Capital
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
When is the last time you did a good deed for someone in your office? How did it make you feel? How did it make them feel? Dan Schwartz explains how kindness can be a catalyst for organizational transformation. Click here to read full version
A Path to Performance Management Reform
ATD Human Capital
JUNE 8, 2015
In the previous blog, “ Same Ingredients, Different Recipe: Innovating on Performance Goals, Feedback, and Ratings ,” we discussed practical ways to evolve goal setting, feedback, and performance ratings for the new work environment. Now, let’s break down the critical factors needed to drive real and lasting behavior change in the organization. Click here to read full version
Leadership Is the Answer, But What Is the Question?
ATD Human Capital
JUNE 15, 2015
Leadership development is faltering most organizations. However, ATD 2015 made one thing clear: people development—especially leadership development—is the answer. Perhaps what we’ve lost is the question. Define that first…then develop and empower leaders at every level to address it. Click here to read full version
2016 Training Program Best Practices
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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?
Analyzing Human Performance: Part 1
ATD Human Capital
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
Analyzing human performance is the art and science of discovering what drives the current performance level, and applying the correct solutions to achieve the desired performance level. Performance consultants use a number of tools and approaches to assess the discrepancy between actual and desired performance. Click here to read full version
3 Techniques to Tell Your Company’s Culture Story
ATD Human Capital
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
An organization’s brand plays an essential role in attracting and maintaining clients. Similarly, culture has also become a big factor in building relationships between an organization and its employees. Building a strong corporate culture and brand is a lot like telling a story: The best ones have three common components. They Make You Feel Like the Protagonist. They Have Interesting Plots.
Learning New Words Makes Your Employees Happy
ATD Human Capital
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Research findings on language acquisition, neuroscience, and linguistic principles—and their implications—will be outlined in this series of posts for ATD’s Human Capital Community of Practice. Click here to read full version
Project Belize: Volunteering as an Employee Development Tool
ATD Human Capital
JULY 1, 2015
Employees who take on volunteer roles are able to build new skills and practice existing skills in a different setting from their day-to-day job. Halelley Azulay describes how PricewaterhouseCoopers used volunteering to develop the skills of its employees. Click here to read full version
Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success
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Is your organization thinking about moving towards a performance development culture? What are the elements to succeeding and keeping managers and employees engaged? Download “A Road Map for Change” to find out and gain insight into making the transition as smooth as possible on your journey into this brave new world.
Organizational Change Is a Certainty
ATD Human Capital
MAY 11, 2015
There is little doubt that organizations must continually deal with increasingly rapid pace of change. Leaders need to remember that for organizational change to succeed, there needs to be effective leadership that is committed to guiding and supporting change with a clear and shared vision of the future. Click here to read full version
Growing Talent Management Firms: Strategy and Execution
ATD Human Capital
JUNE 24, 2015
Many strategic plans, which are key to the future of our businesses, are rarely executed fully. Let’s take a closer look at strategy execution lessons that can be applied to any organization. Click here to read full version
How Do I Gain Trust as a Leader?
ATD Human Capital
APRIL 23, 2015
This excerpt from Leaders Don’t Command explains the power of trust-building and emotional intelligence in leadership. Click here to read full version
How to Streamline Talent Management
ATD Human Capital
OCTOBER 27, 2015
If you are a talent development professional, you may be experiencing a shift in what is expected of you in your organization. To become more strategic and business-oriented, most HR departments are undergoing significant transformations. Whether or not talent development is a part of HR, the profession is undergoing a similar evolution. What measures do you use?
HR's Critical Role in Creating Productive and Meaningful Workplaces
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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace.
Are We Prepared for the Learners of the Future?
ATD Human Capital
DECEMBER 1, 2015
In a mere five years, learning will look dramatically different from what it looks like today, and organizational L&D functions aren’t prepared to meet the needs of tomorrow’s learners. Those are among the key findings of ATD and the Institute for Corporate Productivity’s (i4cp) newly released research report, Learners of the Future: Taking Action Today to Prevent Tomorrow’s Talent Crisis. We Can’t Really Imagine Learning in 2020. Learning Isn’t Prepared for the Future. What Can L&D Function Do About the Coming Crisis? ” Get the Full Report.
Do Millennials Really Lack Soft Skills
ATD Human Capital
AUGUST 13, 2015
We hear it time and again that Millennials (those born between 1982 and 1993) lack soft skills. However, a new study by my company WorkplaceTrends.com, conducted in a partnership with Virtuali, found that Millennials are confident in their soft skills over their hard skills. Millennials Strengths. Our survey focused on the strengths and weaknesses that Millennials have regarding leadership skills. The majority of Millennials we spoke with aspire to become leaders, which is good news for companies seeking to fill management and executive-level positions with new talent. Why this disconnect?
Same Ingredients, Different Recipe: Innovating on Performance Goals, Feedback, and Ratings
ATD Human Capital
JUNE 1, 2015
In the previous blog, “ The Purpose of Performance Management: Redefining Aspiration ,” we articulated what goals the performance management approach must accomplish no matter its design. Now, Dr. Rose Mueller-Hanson and Dr. Elaine D. Pulakos examine how to significantly improve performance management in today’s dynamic, complex work environment. Click here to read full version
Engaged Students Will Become Engaged Workers
ATD Human Capital
AUGUST 4, 2015
Before our employees started working, they were students, and schools have taught them to be disengaged. Creating a more participative, interest-driven educational system will benefit all involved—students, workers, and business. Indeed, it will produce a deep pool of engaged graduates from which organizations can draw. Click here to read full version
Learner motivation explained! Learn how to use an LMS to motivate your learners to upskill
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Training and development professionals often bemoan the lack of apparent initiative in their trainees. Learning professionals spend huge sums of money creating or acquiring skill aligned libraries of learning content, only to watch almost helplessly as learners refuse to engage with any training available that isn’t mandatory.
How Analytics Drives Talent Development
ATD Human Capital
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
Driving Talent Development with Data, a new whitepaper from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, discusses how leading-edge companies are tapping the potential of advanced human capital analytics to improve talent acquisition, employee engagement, retention, and talent development. Click here to read full version
How to Handle Client Resistance
ATD Human Capital
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
No one wants to experience client resistance; it takes a lot of effort to efficiently handle it. However, with preparation, this situation can become less burdensome. Pranab Chakraborty details some advice from experts on how to handle resistance. Click here to read full version
Microeconomics of Human Capital: SMEs Are a Smart Supply
ATD Human Capital
JULY 14, 2015
Organizations should use their internal subject matter experts (SMEs) among their remaining workers to help train and develop existing and new employees. Of course, this task is easier said than done. Click here to read full version
Building a Leadership Identity Starts with a Personal Brand
ATD Human Capital
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
Amy Franko addresses the questions: What is leadership identity? What does it mean to your leadership path and career? What’s more, she starts to examine the five building blocks to developing your leadership identity. Click here to read full version
The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change
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Needed: A shift from traditional performance management systems (organized as an annual review process) to newer performance development systems (organized around real-time dynamics). Download part one in a series to gain insight into why this shift must happen and why it needs to happening now
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