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Create Development Streams to Improve Learning Retention
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
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Targeted and dynamic learning tracks can help employees retain important knowledge.
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10 Years in L&D
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
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The past decade has brought many experiences and lessons learned.
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Certification Changes Reflect Expanded Knowledge and Skills
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
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Think for a minute about a certification being a living, breathing entity. As a measurement of professional standards, the certification program, its content, and processes must stay...
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What Is a Competency Assessment?
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
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Many people ask common questions about a competency assessment, such as, “What is a competency assessment?” “Why do I need one?” and “How do I get started?”A competency assessment is the...
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Effective Communication Is a Vital Capability for TD Pros
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is making a bold shift with the new Talent Development Capability Model. ATD is shifting from competency to capability and broadening the model’...
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When the Competency Model Breaks Down: How to Map Skills to Roles
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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By now, most of us have caught on to the idea that talking about skills is cool, and many companies are simply replacing the word learning with skills. While this idea is taking over the L&...
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Capabilities for Talent Development
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
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What Talent Development Professionals Should Know and Do to Be Successful. The talent development field is deep and wide, encompassing the efforts that foster learning and employee...
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Great Trainers Can Make Great Business Leaders
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
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TD professionals are uniquely equipped to tackle broader business roles.
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New Capability Model Is a Blueprint for Talent Development Professionals
Monday, December 9, 2019
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Through its competency studies over the last 40 years, ATD has helped define what training, learning, and talent development professionals need to know and do to be successful. Amid a...
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Talent Development Capabilities Are Getting Personal
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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As the pace of technological and societal change grows ever more rapid, organizations and industries have been investigating the meaning of the future of work. ATD too has been sifting...
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Ready for the New ATD Capability Model?
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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For more than 75 years, an important part of ATD’s work has been to establish standards of excellence for our profession through our competency research. Best practices and expectations for...
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ATD Career Week 2019 Helps You Stay Current and Agile
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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During ATD’s Career Week 2019, we plan to explore the new work landscape as it’s set forth today. From how to be more agile and flexible, to corporations with pay equity programs, to why we...
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An Unexpected Upside to the CPLP
Friday, September 13, 2019
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In 2007, my manager carved out time for our small L&D team to begin preparing for the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) credential. I had not heard of the credential...
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APTD: The Missing Step to Making a Career Move
Friday, August 23, 2019
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I had been looking for a job in the training industry for more than year, but I didn’t seem be getting anywhere. I like to say I am a trainer. That is, after all, the direction that my...
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Convince Leaders That a Learning Culture Solves the Skills Gap
Monday, August 12, 2019
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To convince leaders that a culture of learning can solve the skills gap problem, you need them to connect skills gaps to engagement and other key business metrics. Today, it would be hard...
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CPLP: Offering a Structure to Stay Current in L&D
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
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It was during July and August a few years ago when I studied for the Association for Talent Development’s (ATD) Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) Knowledge Exam....
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Expanded Skills, Broadened Perspectives
Friday, July 5, 2019
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I set out to earn my CPLP certification as a personal and professional goal. I needed a new challenge, and I certainly had one. In 2014 I earned my CPLP; I’ve since recertified once and...
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CPLP: Personal Choice or Professional Development Goal?
Thursday, June 27, 2019
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Talent development professionals know that professional growth for employees is critical for continued personal career success and the health of the organization where they work. “Lifelong...
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Showing My Value
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
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As a learning and performance professional, two options were available to me that would help me show my value to the industry and an employer. The two main certifying agencies at the time...
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How the CPLP Saved the Day
Monday, June 10, 2019
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A month after I became a certified CPLP, I found myself seated at the table of a newly assigned client. A large client. An angry client. I was the troubleshooter and this was my first...
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