My Career

By Cory RiekenThe growing wave of requests for diversity and inclusion training is heartening: It means companies are ready to get serious. The bad news is that training isn’t enough. We’ve got to think far beyond training if we want ...

The ATD Competency Model defines the skills and knowledge required for talent development professionals to be successful now and in the future. It answers the questions: What do training and development practitioners need to know and do to be successful, ...

I once asked the leader of a struggling team: “What would happen if you treated your employees and colleagues the way you expect them to treat your customers?” For this leader, the way customers were to be treated was clear: ...

I first heard of the CPLP in 2014, when I attended the ATD International Conference & EXPO in Washington, D.C. The huge conference shocked me—more than 10,000 participants in the fields of training, education, and talent development from around the ...