ASTD Offers New Training Resources for Public Sector Professionals

ASTD Staff

Government agencies, like private sector organizations, continually look for ways to increase efficiencies and improve agency performance. Having a knowledgeable, skilled workforce is a critical step in meeting those goals. To help managers and learning professional... More »

ASTD Announces 31 Winners in its Eighth Annual “BEST Awards”

ASTD Staff

The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) announces that 31 organizations from India, Singapore, Turkey, and the United States are winners in the 2010 ASTD BEST Awards competition. InterContinental Hotels Group of Atlanta, Georgia holds the first place ... More »

Risk of Losing High Performers Increases Post-Recession

ASTD Staff

(From PRWEB) -- A new study shows, North American employees are twice as likely to head for the door as they were before the recession, according to the latest findings of global consulting firm BlessingWhite. An alarming 19% of high performers who scored low on job sat... More »

Isolating the Effects of Your Program: An Offensive Play

ASTD Staff

Some people will say that the step to isolate the effects of your programs when measuring and evaluating their results is a defensive move. This can easily be said for evaluation at large. Anytime the ball is being run toward your goal, youre on the defense protecting w... More »

Learning Executives' Confidence is Highest on Record for 1Q 2010

ASTD Staff

Learning Executives are the most confident they've ever been since ASTD started measuring that confidence with the Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI).The LXCI for the first quarter of 2010 increased to its highest score to date after stabilizing in the fourth qu... More »