Many talent development professionals understand that rotational or job shadowing programs would be advantageous to securing and retaining talent, and good for developing depth of skills...

Make learning fun. Those are some words of advice Robert Lucas offered in the ATD Links article, “ Eight Tactics for Gaining and Holding Attention.” As talent development professionals,...

Report reveals the benefits of earning a credential. In "5 Online Education Trends to Watch in 2017," U.S. News & World Report listed greater emphasis on nontraditional credentials among...

Increasingly, we have the data, but how can we best use it? Data, data, data. It seems you can't escape that word today, at the workplace or outside of it. And for talent development...

Jim Pritchert serves his country—and his learners.Like so many in this field, Jim Pritchert’s training career began rather accidentally. When he was in the U.S. Army's Infantry Officer...

Can you imagine going through your workday without Googling something? Or a day without sending a text to a colleague, or exchanging a quick instant messaging conversation? Further, can you...

What happens when employees walk out of a training program? Do they retain information and knowledge? Does their behavior back on the job change? Unfortunately, too frequently the answer to...

Chris Cancialosi, the author of “ Knowledge Transfer: The Key to Organization Resilience and Agility,” the July issue of TD at Work. He writes: “Knowledge doesn’t magically transfer from...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a person’s understanding of their emotions, management of those emotions, ability to recognize others’ emotions and behavior, and using this understanding to...

When do you as a talent development professional start thinking about what your team needs to do to get ready for your newly hired manager? Two days before they’re set to walk in the door?...