Majority of US Private Companies Have Identified Workforce Skill Gaps

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(From PRNewswire) -- With their renewed optimism about the economy and intention to focus on strategic growth over the next 12 months, US private-company CEOs are making talent management a top priority. The majority (51%) of Trendsetter chief executives say that they n... More »

Learning Executives End 2010 with a Surge of Optimism

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Learning executives ended 2010confident about the outlook and expectations for the learning function for the first half of 2011, according to the latest measurement by ASTD. The Learning Executives Confidence Index (LXCI) for the fourth quarter of 2010 grew to its highe... More »

New ASTD Study a 'Wake Up Call" for Sales Teams

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Successful selling organizations depend upon sellers abilities to shift strategies in a changing sales environment. New research from the American Society for Training and Development indicates that current sales training needs improvement to help sellers effectively co... More »

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

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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 »

Isolating the Effects of Your Program: An Offensive Play

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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 »