Steve Green

April 2009 - The Public Manager

Air Force leaders, like many public-sector managers, must strive to introduce innovative alternative energy systems while encouraging cost-effectiveness and systematic learning. Education and hands-on experience are key ingredients to evaluating and implementing public-sector alternative energy prog...

Improvising Air Force Transportation Systems by Using Alternative Energy

The Association for Talent Development (formerly ASTD), the world’s largest association dedicated to those who develop talent in organizations, and Aggregage, Inc., the next generation publisher of B2B sites and newsletters, today announced that they jointly launched Human Resources Today, sponsored by nettime solutions. The site brings together daily content from more than 155 industry thought leaders, including Alison Green, Derek Irvine, Jennifer Miller, Steve Roesler, and Robin Schooling. The site is built on Aggregage’s proprietary social media platform that curates the widest number of sources of online content for the HR market. The Association for Talent Development (ATD) partnered with Aggregage on Human Resources Today as a means of supporting its mission to empower professionals to develop knowledge and skills successfully. “As a professional association, our goals include providing relevant resources and information to our members and the global community of talent development professionals. Supplementing our own robust content offerings and finding unique information from thought leaders from hundreds of sources online is important, so we worked with Aggregage to simplify this task,” said Tony Bingham, President and CEO of the Association for Talent Development. “Aggregage is a media technology leader that understands the value of timely, relevant, personalized content. We know that their platform will enable practitioners to get the most out of the time they invest in keeping up with the important issues in the talent development and human resources space.”“Professional societies and trade associations are the backbone of every industry. They build the industry’s community and foster its growth,” said Robert Flynn CEO of Aggregage, Inc. “The Association for Talent Development is truly a leader in so many ways among global associations. We are excited by their forward-looking recognition that online content consumption and social media are critical information channels for busy professionals. Launching Human Resources Today with them is an exciting and important achievement not only for us, but also for the broader HR profession.”Aggregage, Inc. is a leading technology-based B2B publisher. Aggregage works with industry thought leaders to aggregate the best online content around each specific business topic, and then utilizes its audience-driven, social media filtering to auto-curate the content to deliver highly relevant and engaging topic hubs. Utilizing a simple-to-use interface, the Aggregage platform also enables each reader to select the most relevant issues within the specific topic to receive a newsletter that provides each reader with the most relevant content for their needs and interests.The Association for Talent Development, formerly ASTD, is the world’s largest association dedicated to those who develop talent in organizations. These professionals help others achieve their full potential by improving their knowledge, skills, and abilities.ATD’s members come from more than 120 countries and work in public and private organizations in every industry sector. ATD supports the work of professionals locally in more than 125 chapters, international strategic partners, and global member networks. For more information about The Association for Talent Development visit www.td.org.For more information about Aggregage, Inc. visit www.aggregage.com.Visit Human Resources Today at www.humanresourcestoday.com.Press Contacts:The Association for Talent Development, Kristen Fyfe-Mills, 703.683.8192. kfyfe@td.orgAggregage, Inc., Robert Flynn, 310-729-6207. robert.flynn@aggregage.com

The Association for Talent Development and Aggregage, Inc. partner to launch Human Resources Today for human resource professionals

The article discusses issues related to effective organizational training. Dennis Reina, co-founder of the Vermont-based Reina Trust Building institute, says effective training in his institute begins before and continues well after the course concludes. Team participation needs to be emphasized when training is devoted to intangible skills. Steve Cady, associate professor at Bowling Green State University's Organization and Development Program, believes an organization's training is directly linked with the leadership style. Generally, staff members attend a particular training session because they have ordered by supervisor to do so. This creates a management paradox whereby employee enthusiasm for a particular training session is low, staff members do not implement new skills and the manager then blames human resources for not promoting the session well enough. Experts believe that the occasional team building exercise is typically ineffective without regular reinforcement. Sometimes poor communication between management and staff is the source of the problem.

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