Effective TD and performance improvement requires aligning any development with closing gaps in organizational performance and external impact. Deming, Juran, and Rummler each noted that...

Talent development currently has a prime focus on performance improvement in the workplace. We are bombarded with self-help advice from TV, magazines, and friends, and we want to be healthy...

Talent development professionals, we have a problem.

Defining and justifying strategic planning purposes requires an ideal vision. There is an overarching visionwhat I have termed an ideal visionto which any organization that expects to...

We must determine what talent should deliver and why it should deliver it to add measurable value to all internal and external stakeholders our assessment must include the entire context of...

Each year, thousands of public and private organizations develop so-called strategic plans. But instead of being strategic and adding measurable value to internal and external clients,...

Linking talent development to organizational vision and stakeholder value.

We will not get the true potential of what people can contribute if we continue to treat associates as monolithic in terms of what they bring to us. We can help by encouraging talent to...

The LD field is awash in suggested tools, techniques, frameworks, dogma, and just plain junk. Bottom line: Learning and performance practitioners must do the right thing, not just do things...

Indeed, Im sure youre familiar with the following refrains: There are two bottom lines for every organization: societal and conventional. Because there are three types of results, there are...