ASTD has partnered with ES Research for a new study on sales training. This project will focus on drivers of sales training: what sales professionals need and do in order to stay ahead of the competition and to excel their relationships with clients and prospects, as we... More »

Learning & Development , Sales Enablement

North America , Selling Skills

Research

(Reuters) -- One in four workers has a strong sense of how their job contributes to their firm's goals, said the survey conducted for talent management firm Cornerstone OnDemand and released exclusively to Reuters. And only 18 percent say they have been given useful fee... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Workforce Development

Career Planning , Economy , Engagement , Global Workforce Development , Management Development , Trends

Industry News , Research

Just how prestigious are ASTD's BEST Awards? Here's a quote from a 2009 winner. "Being a five-time winner of the ASTD BEST Awards, we not only take pride in our past accomplishments, we look forward to the challenge each year that ASTD puts forward concerning the rigour... More »

Global Human Resources Development

ASTD Press Room , Membership , Research

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 »

Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Economy , Managing the Learning Function , Trends

ASTD Press Room , Research

(From Business Wire) -- Going green in the workplace can lead to more green in the bank according to a new survey released today from Buck Consultants, an independent subsidiary of ACS, A Xerox Company. The survey showed that the number of U.S. employers with formal gre... More »

Senior Leaders & Executives

Economy , Innovation , Trends

Industry News , Research