The Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) is now accepting submissions for the AHRD Excellence in Scholarly Practice Award. This award is granted to recognize excellence in applying scholarly HRD theory and research to practice in a manner that brings measura... More »

Workforce Development , Senior Leaders & Executives , Sales Enablement , Learning Technologies , Learning & Development , Human Capital , Higher Education , Government , Global Human Resources Development

Trends , Training and Development - General , Measuring and Evaluating , Managing the Learning Function , Leadership Development , Human Performance Improvement , Faculty , Students , Designing Learning , Delivering Training

Evidence-Based Best Practices

Training project management is becoming increasingly important to training professionals. In some organizations, project management is considered a core competency. For this reason, many training professionals can benefit from increasing their knowledge and skills in th... More »

Learning & Development , Career Development , Workforce Development

Management Development , Career Development , Credentialing , Advanced Level Content , Training and Development - General , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating

When training initiatives align to organizational strategy and objectives, learning practitioners ensure training is relevant and has a major hand in achieving results. In todays challenging business environment it is more critical than ever that learning initiative... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Intermediate-level Content , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating

Books , Press Releases

During its 2011 International Conference & Exposition held here, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) presented the Excellence in Practice Awards and Citations to 71 organizations from 11 countries: Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, India,... More »

Career Development , Global Human Resources Development , Government , Human Capital , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies , Sales Enablement , Senior Leaders & Executives

Coaching and Mentoring , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning , Integrated Talent Management , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Selling Skills , Skills Gap , Training and Development - General

Press Releases

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 & Development

Business Impact , Competencies , Curriculum Alignment , Human Performance Improvement , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating

ASTD Press Room , Books