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HR/OD Professional

Are You a Human Resources or Organizational Development Professional?

ASTD is the most trusted resource for professionals around the globe who focus on the important work of developing people and organizations to drive business impact.

Over 50,000 have benefited from ASTD programs that focus on more than training design and delivery. Our research-based, expert-vetted training programs cover the full spectrum of topics critical for those in a HR/OD role, such as performance consulting, change management, talent management, coaching, and more.

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Foundational Programs

Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Consulting Skills Certificate

Learning and performance professionals must exhibit strong consulting skills in order to achieve success as business partners to the organizations they serve. This program demonstrates the behaviors and processes for effective internal consulting and allows participants to practice fundamental consulting competencies with tools, templates, and checklists that can be put to use in the professional setting immediately. In a recent analysis of application and behavior change, 85 percent of participants studied are applying what they learned back on the job after completing the ASTD Consulting Skills Certificate Program.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Change Management Certificate

Facilitating change is more critical now than ever as organizations are affected by economic conditions and are driven to improve efficiency, productivity, and service quality. This program establishes a comprehensive change model that can be immediately applied to your current situations through application exercises, case studies, and interactive program modules.

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ASTD’s industry-recognized three-course Human Performance Improvement Series.

Introducing Human Performance Improvement Certificate

What is HPI? Who invented it? Is it just another fad, or is it something revolutionary? What am I supposed to do about this request for training, when everyone knows it's a resource issue?

Note: This popular ASTD program was formerly called Human Performance Improvement in the Workplace Certificate Program. The title has been updated to align with the recently revised ASTD Competency Model™.

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Specialized Programs

Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Coaching Certificate

Improve your clients' ability to set goals and achieve satisfying results by helping them identify and take advantage of their natural strengths. Participants will learn a model that outlines a coaching process they can use with individuals, teams, or an entire organization, and will practice foundational coaching competencies through role plays, group exercises, and case studies.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Integrated Talent Management Certificate

Now more than ever, employees need to have the right skills to meet the strategic challenges of the organization and employee career-paths need to align with these objectives. This program will explore processes essential to achieving an optimal match between individual and organizational needs, and promote individual growth and organizational renewal.

Note: This program was formerly named the Career Planning and Talent Management Certificate Program. The name and content has changed slightly to reflect the new ASTD Competency Model™.

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ASTD’s industry-recognized three-course Human Performance Improvement Series.

Analyzing Human Performance Certificate

Before you can solve performance problems, you need a systematic approach to get at the real performance gaps and the root causes. ASTD, in partnership with Platinum Performance Group, will introduce you to the new analysis model of Performance DNA.

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Trending Topics

Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Action Learning Certificate

This program will help you understand how your own actions and experiences can improve performance and will demonstrate why action learning is effective in solving problems, building teams, developing leaders, and creating learning organizations. Discover the six essential elements for successful action learning programs, explore the steps and processes of action learning, and practice coaching action learning groups.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Social Media for Learning

The advent of Web 2.0, in which everyone can create content, and we can all be our own publisher, has brought with it new and low-cost opportunities for trainers to enhance and extend the traditional training experience. Join Dr. Jane Bozarth for a tour of real-world, concrete ideas for incorporating social media tools into your training programs.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Developing High-Performing Sales Teams Certificate

This workshop provides you with a foundation for the ASTD World-Class Sales Competency Model© and demonstrates how this model can be used to create an effective sales training program. A well-designed and implemented sales training and development program helps:

Drive significant top line revenue growth
Drive efficiencies that can carry more top line revenue to the bottom line
Shorten the time required to ramp new sales people up to profitability
Ensure the business delivers a more consistent and satisfying customer experience
Create and retain more top sales performers
Contribute to the success of the business in many other positive ways.

You will learn to use the ASTD World-Class Sales Competency Model© as a framework to strengthen their approach to defining business needs. This workshop will also present ways to align a sales training strategy with other sales development initiatives to keep sales force development focused on making business-related impacts.

The workshop includes interactive exercises designed to help you apply knowledge, skills, and tools as they partner with sales leaders and executives to develop a sales training program.

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HR/OD Professional

Are You a Human Resources or Organizational Development Professional?

FIND THE RIGHT COURSE FOR YOU. Use our Learning Roadmap tool to help find your way.

FIND THE RIGHT COURSE FOR YOU.
Use our Learning Roadmap tool to help find your way.