Senior leaders today are considerably more confident about the outlook for talent development than they were at the end of 2017. The Talent Development Executive Confidence Index (TDXCI) is a quarterly assessment of talent development executives' short-term expectations for the health of the talent development function in organizations. The TDXCI for Q1 2018 read 64.8, which is 5.8 points above the Q4 2017 score of 59.0. The Q1 2018 TDXCI score also was 3.7 points higher than the average score of 61.1 seen across all 2017 quarters.