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Here's How HR Leaders Are Addressing Talent Development During a Federal Hiring Freeze

Cornerstone On Demand

With fewer opportunities to bring in new talent, departments are paying special attention to retaining high performers and developing current employees to ensure their organizations continue to succeed and thrive. Now, the strategy that we are deploying is to sit down, for example, and have interviews with the employees.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Microsoft Ventures invests in strategy management software startup Workboard. ATD Research: Investment in Talent Development on the Rise. HRO Today Releases Worker Confidence Index Study for Third Quarter 2017. Businessolver’s Core Values Come To Life Through 2017 Foundation Efforts.

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Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help

Workplace Psychology

In December 2017, I (along with many of my colleagues) got laid off by the parent company that had acquired our smaller company in 2014. corporations have been reducing the size of their workforces at alarming rates since the late 1980s” (Levy, 2017, p. Newsweek (2010). The Consequences of Losing Your Job. Alternatives to Downsizing.

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Why Microlearning Is Becoming a Mainstream Strategy

Cornerstone On Demand

According to a 2017 report , 38 percent of talent development professionals already use microlearning—and another 41 percent plan to start within the next year. In fact, 80 to 90 percent of the information our brains process is visual. The reason for the growth is simple: It produces results.

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How to be a Good Internal Consultant

Workplace Psychology

Additionally, several core consulting skills (AIMC, 2017) are needed, such as business acumen, business process optimization, change management, coaching & consulting skills, and project management. Leadership & Talent Development Consultant. Compass: Your Guide for Leadership Development and Coaching. References.

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Growing Talent Development Firms: Industry Disruption, Interruption, and Corruption

ATD Human Capital

In the talent development industry, I see three major drivers that have the potential to be disrupted: the content presented, the delivery by which it is presented, and the instruction used to deliver it. They end up providing inadequate solutions that fail to achieve needed results in skill development and performance improvement.

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Growing Talent Development Firms: Grow or Die?

ATD Human Capital

As ATD prepares to publish my new book, The Complete Guide to Building and Growing a Talent Development Firm , I thought a good final blog post, at least for now, should focus on the alternative to growth. The lesson is that growth needs to be managed and planned just as you might lay out your strategy for the next year.