Internal consultants staff members who serve in consultative roles in their organization face unique challenges in balancing the tension between being knowledgeable insiders and the need to give honest, direct feedback to their clients. Now, a new book from ASTD Pre... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development

Coaching and Mentoring , Delivering Training , Human Performance Improvement , Training and Development - General

Books , Press Releases

(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 »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Competencies , Human Performance Improvement , Skills Gap , Trends

Industry News , Research

Last week the article entitled “Checking Your Training Evaluation Defaults” discussed a number of common practices that hinder training effectiveness.  This week we continue the discussion by providing alternatives to the first potentially harmful defau... More »

Learning & Development

Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General , Assessment , Designing Learning

Computers have default settings designed to make common functions easier to perform. We become so accustomed to them we may never consider other (or better) ways to do the things we do regularly. More »

Learning & Development

Beginner Level Content , Designing Learning , Measuring and Evaluating