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• December TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on training delivery and facilitation. Other articles explore change management, coaching, business partnering, and much more.

• TD at Work Guide: A Learning Leader's Guide to Mergers - In this issue of TD at Work, DJ Jaeger discusses learning and development’s role in company mergers and acquisitions, acting not only as content creators but as architects of continuity, culture, and capability.

• Templates and Tools: Reading the Room–Literally: Tailoring Your Delivery Toolkit - A cornerstone to facilitation success includes understanding your learners, adapting your learning environment and delivery to meet their needs, and creating an engaging and productive experience for each learner. In this new toolkit from ATD, we'll cover the key elements of reading the room to adapt delivery in real-time and engage with every learner.

• Templates and Tools: Learning Technology Tools - This tool provides additional guidance about when different types of learning technologies are useful. The examples provided are current as of publication, but note that new technologies come on the market often.

• November TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on learning technologies. Other articles explore project management, onboarding, measuring soft skills, and much more.

• TD at Work: Amplify Leadership Development With AI Coaching - In this issue of TD at Work, Lindsay Bernhagen and Al Dea explain how artificial-intelligence coaching can strengthen leadership development by giving more people more opportunities to reflect, experiment, and grow in the flow of work.

• Research Report Whitepaper: Data Analysis: The Future of Decision Making in TD - In the latest report from ATD, 313 TD professionals answered questions about their skill level in data analysis, how they develop their skills in this area, and how they leverage data to influence the learning function and their organizations.

• Templates and Tools: Social Influence at a Glance - Use these influence tactics to increase the effectiveness of your learning initiatives.

• Templates and Tools: Content Sequencing Options - Consider each of these options when deciding the best way to sequence your learning content.

• Templates and Tools: Design a Mentoring Program - Use this template to plan the various facets of a mentoring program

• Templates and Tools: Social Identity Profile - Use this tool to identify and apply different dimensions of diversity. A few examples are listed on the second page.

• October TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on learning sciences. Other articles creating a learning organization, job crafting, training in the healthcare industry, and much more.

• TD at Work Guide: Become a Trusted Partner to Drive Performance - In this issue of TD at Work, Danielle Wallace shares how talent development professionals can connect learning to performance and build meaningful partnerships across the organization to support the business and help shape the organization’s future.

• Research Report Whitepaper: Change Management: TD’s Role in Driving Organizational Transformation - This report draws on a sample of 311 talent development professionals across a variety of industries to deliver benchmarking data and highlight best practices.

• Templates and Tools: Learning Assessment Tools: Advantages and Risks - Learning assessment tools have different advantages and risks to consider when selecting a tool. Use this template to help you with your decision.

• Templates and Tools: Content Planning and Organization Techniques - Reference this table for the best uses of content planning and organization techniques.

• Templates and Tools: Objective and Outcomes - Knowing the difference between an outcome and an objective allows you to better set expectations and measure your training results. Use this tool to compare and establish your outcomes and objectives.

• Templates and Tools: Writing Guidelines - Consult these guidelines for effective instructional design writing tips.

• September TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on change management. Other articles explore leadership, facilitation, personal branding, and much more.

• TD at Work Guide: Cultivate Creative Thinking for the Future of Work - Demand for creative thinking is currently outpacing supply. The good news is that creative thinking is a trainable skill. In this issue of TD at Work, Gerard J. Puccio and Pamela A. Szalay explain the four stages of the creative process and how to implement it.

• Research Report Whitepaper: Manager Development: Driving Organizational Success - This new report from ATD Research draws on a sample of 409 talent development professionals across a variety of industries to deliver benchmarking data and highlight best practices.

• Research Report Whitepaper: Selecting and Implementing Learning Technologies: Methods and Skills Used by TD Professionals - This report summarizes data from 362 talent development professionals who answered questions about how they identify and select learning technologies, as well as questions about their skills in conducting organizational needs assessments and defining functional requirements for learning technology projects.

• Templates and Tools: Face-to-Face Room Configuration Options - Use this reference chart when planning how to set up the room for your face-to-face events.

• Templates and Tools: Guidelines for Managing Cognitive Load Instructions - Cognitive load is the total amount of mental effort exerted by the brain's working memory to process information and complete a task. Consult these guidelines to manage the cognitive load in instructions.

• Templates and Tools: Tips for Engaging Learners - No two participants are the same. When engaging participants during your session, use this tool as a guide to understand what engagement is, ways to engage all types of participants, and how to modify those techniques to your modality.

• Templates and Tools: Consulting Process Evaluation Template - As you conclude a project, you will want to measure the consulting process. Consider what is important to your department as well as what is important to your client. Use a template like this one, or gather data using the steps in your consulting process and a Likert scale for measuring.

• Templates and Tools: Design Considerations for Slide Decks - Slide Decks, also known as presentation slides, are heavily leveraged across the major modalities–face-to-face, virtual classrooms, and e-learning programs. When designed effectively, visuals help minimize cognitive load and create room for learning. Use this tool for guidelines to minimize cognitive load in your slides.

• August TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on instructional design. Other articles explore knowing your business, a communication framework, digital adoption programs, and much more.

• TD at Work Guide: Discover the Neuroscience Behind Leadership Longevity - With more than half of employees reporting burnout in the past year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s data, this is a significant detriment to organizational success and economic prosperity. Understanding the delicate balance of neurotransmitters and hormones that regulate motivation, stress, and trust is more than an interesting science lesson. In this issue of TD at Work, Jessica Billiet reveals how to unlock better leadership, stronger teams, and sustainable high performance.

• Research Report: AI in Instructional Design: Transforming Workflows and Content Creation - In AI in Instructional Design: Transforming Workflows and Content Creation, 232 TD professionals answered questions about how they use AI tools for day-to-day tasks, content creation, and the development of multimedia assets. It explores the types of AI tools they use, as well as how those tools affect course quality and the time it takes to create them.

• Templates and Tools: Knowledge Management Life Cycle Assessment - Reflect on the activities in each stage of the learning life cycle. Do you have tools and solutions for each stage? If you do not, what would you recommend? Use this tool to help you determine if anything is missing.

• Templates and Tools: Talent Development Learning Culture Checklist - Use this checklist to remind yourself of your responsibilities to help your organization build a learning culture. By balancing these responsibilities, you’re helping to build a culture where learning is continuous, outcomes are measurable, and employees feel involved and valued.

• Templates and Tools: Reflecting to Enhance Learning Toolkit - In this new toolkit, adapted from the ATD Forum, you will receive a personal set of resources that you can use in reflection—to assist you in thinking more deeply about the information you encounter daily and to improve how you learn. This toolkit provides a variety of reflection tools in formats that are quick and easy to use. As a resource, we have provided a matrix with suggestions for when to use each tool introduced.

• Templates and Tools: Alignment Checklist - After analyzing the data and presenting your recommendations, meet with your client or stakeholder to reach an agreement on your next steps. Use this checklist to guide your alignment meeting.

• July TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on talent strategy and management. Other articles explore coaching, shadow learning, evaluating impact, and much more.

• TD at Work Guide: Leverage C-Suite Personas to Gain Buy-In - C-suite personas can strengthen individual learning and growth, influence leaders, foster healthy teams, enable change at the senior leader level, and optimize strategy. In this issue of TD at Work, Esther Jackson explains how to use C-suite personas and decision-making styles to gain support for talent development initiatives.

• Research Report: Microlearning: Short-Form Learning for Long-Term Impact - The pace of today’s work environment means they have even less time to devote to learning than they did before. How can microlearning fit into this new standard? Microlearning: Short-Form Learning for Long-Term Impact draws on a sample of 271 talent development professionals to answer key questions around microlearning and highlight best practices.

• Research Report: The Rise of AI in Sales Coaching - In this report, we will be exploring AI-enabled sales coaching, including its effectiveness, how it can support salespeople, how it can help managers, and the benefits of using AI-enabled sales coaching. We’ll also compare organizations that use this software versus organizations that do not utilize it.

• Templates and Tools: Stakeholder Mapping Guide - This guide will help you visualize and analyze stakeholder relationships within your organization. Use it to evaluate each stakeholder’s influence, interest, and potential impact on your project, enabling more effective engagement strategies.

• Templates and Tools: Features of Social Media - Leverage social media’s features to drive knowledge sharing, collaboration, and a sense of community. Use this tool to navigate the features, descriptions, and use cases for social media in learning.

• Templates and Tools: Logistics and Planning Training Events: Virtual - Use this checklist to help you prepare for live, online events such as webinars and virtual conferences. Please note that the tasks are not necessarily sequential. For example, you might want to decide on the date before selecting the facilitators or vice versa.

• Templates and Tools: Key Characteristics of Learning Development Models - Consider these criteria to determine which learning model will work best for your program.

• June TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on training delivery and facilitation. Other articles explore organizational change, multigenerational teams, augmented reality, and much more.

• TD at Work Guide: How to Choose a Learning Experience Platform - A focus on personalization and user experience is transforming technology solutions from one-size-fits-all to curated environments that cater to end users’ unique needs. In this issue of TD at Work, Theresa Decker reveals how learning experience platforms drive effectiveness through training delivery and user engagement.

• Research Report: Organizational Use of AI for Talent Development: A Focus on AI Literacy - This study can help organizations benchmark their AI understanding and usage. It provides advice on best practices and concludes with suggested action steps and ATD resources to help TD professionals understand AI and how to best use it at their organization.

• Templates and Tools: Guide to Learning Contexts - Refer to this guide as you prepare to facilitate learning in different learning contexts.

• Templates and Tools: Choosing Immediate, Pilot, or Phased Implementation - This tool provides an overview of three common implementation processes for trying out new learning technologies. Refer to it when choosing the best method for your implementation.

• Templates and Tools: Mastering Meaningful Dialogue: Communication Theory for Professional Learning - Communication is about connecting with others. Effectively communicating requires a knowledge of communication principles and techniques that allows a person to articulate the appropriate message for a particular audience. Use this toolkit to help you choose the right communication method for the right audience every time.

• Templates and Tools: Persona Template - Learner personas are a powerful tool for better understanding and developing content for your audience. The goal of a persona should be to embody common experiences from your learners. Use this template to develop and standardize your learner persona profiles.

• Templates and Tools: Evaluation Questions for Software Selection - Use these questions and considerations when evaluating and selecting e-learning software tools. Be sure to involve any necessary stakeholders in the process.

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