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Whats New at ATD21 with Rita Bailey

Rita Bailey is the founder of Up to Something and specializes in disrupting and challenging leaders in unconventional ways. Prior to her keynote session, Bailey spoke with Connection Point about her background and experience and what she’ll share with ATD Virtual Conference: Unleash Potential attendees.Your concise tagline is that you are in the “people business.” Why did you choose that, and why is it important to you?My joy comes from seeing others succeed. I help leaders create cultures, environments, and practices where people can flourish. I help people who know what they want to accomplish but need guidance, support, and resources to reach their goals. I personally believe that the reason we all exist is to serve.What do you hope ATD Virtual Conference participants walk away with after listening to your keynote?I hope that participants walk away realizing that it’s the person, not the title, that determines true leadership and that leaders maximize their ability to influence from a place of courage versus command. That often means being vulnerable and demonstrating humility and empathy. While fundamental leadership skills are necessary to operate the business, people are the primary driver for success. I hope participants will be inspired, curious, and mindful about the type of leader they personally strive to be and how they can help develop others.Leaders are being asked to really push outside their comfort zones now with so many crises coming at them. What’s the most important thing they can do now to keep their organization and employees productive and engaged?People need to be open-minded and emotionally aware. They need to listen to understand and be vulnerable and transparent. During times of crisis and confusion, it is extremely important to communicate a clear vision of where the organization is going and the what and why rationale behind all decisions.What or who has been your greatest teacher for your professional and personal success?Professionally, I was fortunate to serve under Herb Kelleher’s leadership for 25 years at Southwest Airlines. He inspired and unleashed potential in everyone in the organization. I not only learned but experienced servant leadership.Personally, I give honor to my mother for her tough unconditional love and support and for reinforcing foundational values and beliefs that have served as my North Star.What is one action TD professionals can take right now to unleash potential?Challenge the status quo!Share your ATD Virtual Conference experience on social media. #ATDVirtualConference

In the People Business: A Q&A With Rita Bailey

Managing Learning Programs Certificate—Rita Bailey

Disrupting Learning as We Know It! - Rita Bailey Opening Keynote BEST 2016

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An Interview with Rita Bailey

As founder of Up to Something, LLC, Rita specializes in unconventional methods that disrupt and challenge leaders to think differently, be open to new possibilities, and question the status quo. She served in several leadership roles for more than 25 years at Southwest Airlines, including Operations, Sales, Marketing, HR, and L&D. She currently works with organizations in several sectors engaging leaders in courageous conversations, strategy sessions, and immersive experiences that foster team collaboration, change, and cultural inclusiveness.She is a Leadership faculty contributor at SMU, Cox School of Business in Dallas, Texas, where she co-designed and facilitated Customized Executive Leadership programs. She is also cultivating entrepreneurship and developing leaders in her own multi-generational family business venture.Rita started three successful consulting organizations and co-authored the book, Destination Profit: Creating People-Profit Opportunities in Your Organization. She served on several advisory boards and committees including Dallas Convention Bureau, Stagen Leadership, Sandals Resorts and as Chair of the National Board of ASTD now (ATD).

Rita Bailey

In this Q&A, we talk to editor Elaine Biech about what folks can expect from the third edition of ATD’s Handbook for Training and Talent Development.

Talent Development Professionals Look to the Future With ATD’s Handbook

Keynote Speakers Amy Cuddy, Rita Bailey, Seth Godin, and Ben Nemtin will help conference attendees tackle today’s unique workplace challenges.

ATD Virtual Conference Highlights Today’s L&D Trends for Tomorrow’s Future Workforce

As we planned out our latest Talent Brief newsletter issue, we focused on what trends were gaining traction in the talent development field. Examining trends is a useful tool for reflection—they help us see what’s working and what’s not. This allows us to better plan for success in the future. But just because a topic is trendy doesn’t mean it’s changing talent development for the better. Some trends may do more harm than good, whether because they are misleading or because they were never actually evidence based.We reached out to experts in the field to weigh in on which trends they would like to see go away this year.Check out their replies below, and sign up for Talent Brief to get more insights like these in your inbox each week:What L&D trend from 2021 do you hope never makes a comeback, and why?“2021 was not ‘The Great Resignation.’ That’s an oversimplification. Opportunity finally caught up with disengagement. People seized the chance to reshape their relationships with work by going remote, changing jobs, or exploring new career paths. To avoid similar disruption in the future, organizations must adapt talent practices and accelerate internal skill development. L&D must shift stakeholder mindsets and make learning an ongoing part of every person’s job if companies hope to maintain capable workforces.”JD Dillon, Chief Learning Architect, Axonify“Personalization, in its current form. Yes, there are measurable results with AI-generated bespoke learning experiences. However, most employees would be surprised to know how much of their data is being collected without their knowledge and who has access to it. I firmly believe we need a GDPR when it comes to the triangulation of HR, performance, and L&D data for informed consent to opt-in to personalization.”Lori Niles-Hoffman, Senior Learning Strategist“In-person training being offered virtually exactly as it was delivered in-person. In 2020, there was a global mass movement to virtual learning. The pandemic forced things to be done quickly and cheaply to get learning up and running. The trend continued in 2021, and emergency virtual training, originally designed as live in-person training, still received no adjustments to ensure engaging and effective learning—resulting in bad learner experiences.”Myra Roldan, Senior Distributor of Knowledge and Good Vibes“I would love to see our industry doing less trend-chasing and more deciding what’s important for a particular learning & performance situation. It’s not “what can I do with mobile? AR? or video? Or microlearning? Or performance support or xAPI?” And more about how do I help this set of people accomplish this particular task in better ways? And I really do think that many of us are doing just fine with that.So much of what we have learned in the last two years now of living with a pandemic is that things change rapidly, we need to be flexible, and learning technology can be an enabler, annoying, and a barrier all at the same time.”Megan Torrance, Chief Energy Officer, Torrance Learning"As a result of protest, social unrest and political issues, organizations quickly reacted by implementing DEIB training courses without having a strategic approach that considered Culture, and other components - values, hiring, processes, etc. For organizations to truly implement meaningful change, they will need to replace reactive, “throw it together” methods with thoughtful, holistic DEIB strategies."Rita Bailey, Founder, Up to SomethingWhat trend would you like to see go away? Let us know in the comments below!

Return to Sender: Trends We’re Wishing Away in 2022

DEI thought leaders, Rita Bailey, Elaine Beich, and Tonya Wilson lead an authentic conversation through their takeaways from their panel discussion at the 2021 ATD International Conference and Expo in Salt Lake Utah. They share highlights from their panel discussion, “Discussing the Undiscussables.” They also reflect on the perspectives of other leaders and learners around the challenges, nuances, and opportunities in this provocative DE&I journey. Talent development professionals must be drivers of positive change in their organizations but too often they lack the knowledge and ability to influence leadership, at times inadvertently becoming a barrier to impact. Hear innovative perspectives and get tangible guidance to propel you in this journey from leading industry experts contributing to ATD’s DE&I initiatives.Enhance your impact as a talent development professional—explore ATD’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Certificate. 

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