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October TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on cultural awareness and inclusion. Other articles explore instructional design, data mining, negotiation, and much more.
TD at Work Guide: Enhance 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 this work guide, we'll review virtual learning accessibility from start to evaluation!
Train the Trainer TD at Work Guide Collection: Second Edition - Now with 95% new content!
Templates and Tools: The Empathy Map: Learner and Stakeholder Perspectives - Use these sample questions to help formulate the right questions to ask when assessing each level of need.
Templates and Tools: Facilitation Techniques - Facilitation is a skill that requires practice and preparation with different techniques. When facilitating, use this resource to guide you in selecting and using multiple facilitation behaviors and techniques for your session.
Templates and Tools: Learning Needs Sample Questions - Needs assessments can help improve policy or program decisions, individuals, education, training, organizations, communities, or products. Use this tool to ensure your needs assessment includes the questions needed to be successful.
Templates and Tools: SME Quick Reference Guide - To foster the relationship between the SME and the talent development professional, it is important to clarify different roles and how to best work together at the start of the project. Use this guide to support you and your SME.
September TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on training delivery and facilitation. Other articles explore mobile learning, career communities, change management, and much more.
TD at Work: Training Deskless Workers - How can an employer train busy team members to support the business without removing them from running it? This month's TD at Work reviews the proper resources and training to ensure your team members will be more motivated and better able to handle their work—now and in the future.
Research Report: Making Learning Assessments Successful: Using Performance and Tests to Measure Knowledge and Skills Learned in Training - This study can help organizations benchmark their learning assessments and provide advice on best practices for measuring learning. It concludes with suggested action steps and ATD resources to help organizations create the most effective learning assessments.
Research Report: Blended Learning: Leverage Flexibility to Maximize Results - A blended learning program allows participants the flexibility to learn largely on their own schedule. This report brings you findings to answer key questions about blended learning and highlight best practices and provides examples and insights from other organizations and professionals.
Templates and Tools: Effective Practices to Prepare for Learning - There are a lot of tasks to keep track of while preparing for your learning event(s). Use this checklist of common and effective practices to ensure you are on the right track as you prepare for your learning.
Templates and Tools: Key Adult Learning Theory Concepts and Application Tips - A good understanding of Adult Learning Concepts is a key part of developing learning that works. Use this tool to review Adult Learning Concepts and examples of how to apply them.
Templates and Tools: AI and XR Considerations - Talent development professionals need to be aware of bias and ethical considerations when implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) solutions in their work. These checklists highlight the most important things for talent development professionals to consider when working with these technologies.
Templates and Tools: Structuring the Learning Function Toolkit - The learning function plays a strategic role in the overall success of an organization. Knowing the options you have and the ways to assess what will be most effective and efficient for your group is important in managing the learning function and designing and implementing the talent strategy.
August TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on learning sciences. Other articles explore performance improvement, the power of influence, 3D models, and much more.
TD at Work: Feedback for Better Performance - Feedback ties together performance management, employee engagement, and L&D. Leaders must ensure that feedback is continuous at every level. In this issue of TD at Work, Colin May details feedback from start to finish including frameworks, conversation tips, and integrating feedback into your company culture.
Research Report: Informal Learning: Measuring Success Outside the Classroom - Informal learning in the workplace has benefits for both employer and employee. It is flexible and learner centric, so employees can learn when and where they want. The talent development function plays an important role in creating and supporting informal learning. This report draws on a sample of 297 talent development professionals to answer key questions about informal learning and highlight best practices.
Templates and Tools: Best Learning Methods: Knowledge, Skills, Attitude - Different methods are best for teaching knowledge or skills or to influence attitudes. Including a variety of methods throughout the course will ensure that varying preferences are accommodated. Use this tool to help you blend the best methods for your learning needs.
Templates and Tools: Examples of Deliberate Practice - Talent development professionals who offer deliberate practice opportunities deliver deeper learning that sticks and leads to better long-term retention. Use this tool to review deliberate practice methods, and examples of how to apply them.
Templates and Tools: Data Standards Facts Sheet - Use this tool to review the five most common data standards used in learning technologies.
July TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on data and analytics. Other articles explore generative artificial intelligence, 360s, onboarding, and much more!
TD at Work: Internal Podcasts from A to Z - Have you ever considered how podcasting can relate to your organization’s goals? In this issue of TD at Work, Shannon Martin will explain what an internal podcast is, where to start, how to record, and what you can gain by creating one.
Templates and Tools: Accessibility Testing Options - Use this reference tool to help you choose the most effective accessibility-testing solution.
Templates and Tools: Engaging With Each Other - These commitments model how to build and set expectations for transparent and authentic conversation in the workplace.
Templates and Tools: Adult Learning Checklist - How will you know if a learning opportunity satisfies the six principles of andragogy? Use this checklist to evaluate it.
Templates and Tools: What Data Are You Using? - Use this tool to identify what data your organization already collects and what might be an opportunity for you to start collecting and analyzing. Be sure to consider qualitative and quantitative data.
June TD Magazine: This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on talent strategy and management. Other articles explore DEI fatigue, inheriting a learning program, and more.
BEST Practices 2024 TD Magazine: This special edition of TD magazine profiles the 2024 BEST Award, Excellence in Practice Award, and Advancing Talent Development Award winners that ATD has recognized for their exceptional talent development efforts. It highlights the award-winning practices of approximately 100 companies worldwide.
TD at Work: How to Implement Cohort Learning - Cohort learning—whether in person or virtual—is growing in usage, and learning professionals must be prepared to implement it. In this issue of TD at Work, you'll learn the benefits of cohort learning and how to prepare and implement cohort learning in your organization.
Research Report: Tapping the Potential of Sales Enablement - Drawing on a sample of 262 talent development professionals, this report investigates key questions to provide benchmark data and highlight best practices in sales enablement. ATD Research also took a closer look at sales enablement departments and the tools they use.
Research Report: Instructional Design in Practice - In today’s fast-paced business environment, instructional designers are tasked with creating learning experiences that meet employees’ informational needs while also considering learning needs, time constraints, and budget factors. Instructional Design in Practice: The Essential Skills and Resources examines the skills and resources necessary for the instructional design role, as described by 339 talent development professionals.
NEW Member Toolkit: Sharpening the Saw: Are You Prepared to Develop a Learning Strategy? - A learning strategy ensures alignment with the organization and helps everyone grow together to accomplish the results needed for competitive advantage. It should clearly show the role of the learning function and how to measure success. Developing a learning strategy that is grounded in the performance needs of the organization is difficult. It takes skills, time, hard work, commitment, and constant monitoring. Use this toolkit to support your learning strategy from start to finish!
Templates and Tools: Sample Needs Assessment - By conducting a thorough needs assessment, framing the data, and presenting your findings, you can become an asset to the discussions regarding the overall learning strategy for your organization. Use this Sample Needs Assessment report to see an example of what to include in your reports and ways to frame the data collected.
Templates and Tools: ROPES Instructional Planning Template - Use the ROPES Model to organize the sequence of your training session.
May TD Magazine- This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on instructional design. Other articles explore using humor, emerging technologies, and much more.
TD at Work: Promote Better Team Effectiveness - Research shows that a team’s structure does the heavy lifting when it comes to team effectiveness. Understand and facilitate team coaching, whether within the TD function or with other departments with this month's TD at Work.
Research Report: Localizing Your Learning: How Adapting Your Content Can Make Training More Effective - Localizing your training can make it more effective across different cultures and workplace practices. This goes beyond just translation, including changing phrases, colors, and images. Learn more about localization and how other organizations are approaching training to make it more effective in this new report!
Research Report: New Employee Onboarding: Setting the Stage for Success - Onboarding programs are a crucial piece connecting a new employee to an organization. These programs should provide new hires with an opportunity to buy in to the organization’s mission by imparting knowledge about its history and culture and giving them the skills they need to succeed in their new roles. To add context to the findings and make these results more actionable, this report provides examples and insights from other organizations and professionals.
Research Report: Making the Case for Investing in Talent Development: Six Case Studies - For an organization to succeed, it needs to invest in its talent. However, with staff shortages and budget constraints, talent development professionals may struggle to convince their organizations that investing in staff is the right decision. So, ATD Research collaborated with CTDO Next to create a series of case studies to help TD professionals understand how high-performing organizations are making the case for funding TD projects.
NEW Member Toolkit: Stakeholder Relationships Toolkit: Holding the Keys for Project Success - Have you ever led a team responsible for initiating a new project? Leading this type of effort is an ominous task regardless of the size of the project. One of the best ways to maximize success and minimize risk with any project is to know all the stakeholders involved and their roles. Use this new ATD Member Toolkit to successfully execute your project and win-over your project's key stakeholders.
Templates and Tools: The ROPES Model - The ROPES model, based on Gagne's Nine Events of Learning, is one option for a framework around which to structure learning content.
Templates and Tools: Maintaining a Learning Ecosystem - Whether you are building a learning technology ecosystem or maintaining an existing one, consider the following aspects here.
Templates and Tools: Levels of Engagement - As a designer, you can engage participants on several levels: intellectually, emotionally, behaviorally, physically, or socially. Ideally, you will use a combination. This tool includes examples and ideas for creating opportunities at each level.
April TD Magazine: This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on organizational development and culture. Other articles explore cohort learning, desk-less working, generative AI, and more!
TD at Work Guide: Principles for Brain-Friendly Learning - The L&D industry needs less ineffective learning. Learning professionals can apply research-based principles to increase the stickiness of learning. In this issue of TD at Work, we learn more about what makes learning durable and how to create a culture around it.
Research Report Whitepaper: Bridging the Skills Gap: Using Learning Opportunities to Address Current and Future Talent Needs - In this report, ATD Research examines the current and future skills gaps organizations are facing, as described by 356 talent development professionals.
Templates and Tools: Evaluating the Learning Solution and Outcomes - As you plan for evaluation, consider this learning solution evaluation planning tool to help you document data you will collect, how you will collect it, and who will collect it.
Templates and Tools: The ADDEDD Model -This model adapts the ADDIE model into a model specific to AI and XR.
Templates and Tools: Evaluation with The Kirkpatrick Model Quick Tips - Use this document to explore the evaluation models in greater detail.
Templates and Tools: Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Examples - Use the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to ensure your learning activities help learners perform at the right level.
Templates and Tools: Closing a Project Checklist - How can you know you’re done with a project and it has successfully moved on to the next stages as a product or service? This checklist aims to provide key tasks that should be completed during closing to help ensure project close-out success.
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