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Peer-to-Peer Problem Solving Is Key
Forum members gain insights from companies with similar business challenges.
Sun May 18 2025
The business problems with which talent development practitioners grapple are only getting more complex, with rapid advances in technology, changing employee expectations, and the need to communicate and innovate in new ways. To learn how they might address those challenges in their own organizations, L&D practitioners can take advantage of such advances as peer-to-peer learning, proven practices, and advice from others in the field.
Those types of learning are some of the benefits of the ATD Forum, a consortium for TD leaders and their organizations to connect, collaborate, and share in a confidential environment.
During ATD25, attendees of ATD Forum-sponsored sessions will be able to use tools, frameworks, and cross-industry benchmarking to expand their leadership skills and strategic thinking capabilities.
One session, “Want Solutions That Work? Do a Deep Dive,” takes place on both Monday, May 19 from 1 to 2 p.m. and Tuesday, May 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The programs (facilitated by Forum member companies MAREK, bioMerieux, Gant Travel, and American Bureau of Shipping) give participants an opportunity to use a collaborative solution tool to delve into performance challenges and gain a more strategic approach to problem solving.
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Peer-to-peer learning and benchmarking with talent development leaders from various industries is a force multiplier. [Sketch: Four people collaborate around a laptop] Small cohorts: sharing practices, generating ideas, forming relationships. [Sketch: A person in front of a computer monitor, holding a paper. Speech bubbles from the monitor show a lightbulb, upward-trending graph, and sheaf of paper.] Content consults: connections to content tools and people at time of need [Sketch: Computer monitor with a document that says "On-Demand Survey, Q1" and a hand with "Support" in its palm.] Benchmarking surveys: real-time responses, proven practices and tools, connections with topical experts from other companies [Sketch: Computer monitor showing a video call with six people. A person sits in front of the monitor.] Virtual roundtable discussions: thought leaders, member use cases, curated resources [Sketch: Five people collaborate around a table. They have none paper, Post-Its, and several stacks of paper. One person points to a hand-drawn diagram on the wall. That diagram is shown larger above the sketch. It depicts a person with a lightbulb, thinking about these topics: strategic, business, collaboration partners, and measurement evaluation. Each category has ideas underneath. To the left of that hand-drawn poster is a hand-drawn poster that reads "Talent Leaders Bring the WOW," which as various notes and images collaged on it.] Experiential labs hosted at member site: using collaborative tools and techniques, moving from learning to doing [Sketch: A rocket labeled "career" shoots into the clouds; below, four people cheer] Leadership development opportunities: Presenting, facilitating, and publishing; elevating yourself and your company
Connect, Collaborate, Share
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Compare your leadership pipeline and development approach to other organizations on Monday, May 19 during “Fueling Growth and Success Through Talent Investments,” led by senior TD leaders from Grainger. Benchmark your approach against that of peers and learn a new framework to plan your leadership development strategy. The session takes place from 3 to 4 p.m.
Examine how other companies, including the ones that win awards, cultivate high levels of performance in “Connect, Collaborate, Share: Unleash Innovative Performance Opportunities With Peer Benchmarking,” on Tuesday, May 20 from 4 to 5 p.m. 84 Lumber, Phillips 66, and Atlantic Union Bank will share techniques to supercharge your learning team’s creativity.
In a case study, learning leaders from Booz Allen Hamilton will share their strategy for empowering workforce development and approaches to drive organizational growth in “Unlock Your Organization’s Potential Using the Wow Factor” on Wednesday, May 21 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Participants in each of the five sessions will leave with a series of resources and toolkits to download. Learn more about how using peer-to-peer learning to solve business challenges works at Forum sessions.
All sessions are in Room 101.
Read more about ATD25 at conferencedaily.