Keep Learning Even With Tight Budgets: Individual Development Planning Using a Blended Learning Approach

Deadra Welcome

No Training Budget Doesn’t Equal No Learning Let’s face it, we have had to cut out parts of our jobs like travel, supplies, and contracts with tight budget constraints.  Most organizations are doing the unthinkable, CUTTING TRAINING BUDGETS…OH NO... More »

Agencies Fail to Take Advantage of Strategic Sourcing

Ryann K. Ellis

“Improved and Expanded Use Could Save Billions in Annual Procurement Costs,” a report released in September 2012 by the Government Accountability Office(GAO), finds that that selected agencies leveraged only a fraction of their buying power through strategic... More »

GSA Saves More Than $11 Million

ASTD Staff

the U.S. General Services Administration announced that the agency is projected to save more than $11 million in taxpayer dollars through an initial set of policies implemented in April 2012 by the new head of the agency, Dan Tangherlini, to cut travel and conference co... More »

Best of TPM: Forum Examines Resiliency of Those Affected by Hurricane Katrina

ASTD Staff

Beverly A. Cigler, in her Forum article “Resiliency: Five Years after Katrina,” analyzes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, as well as the disasters that have affected the city in the 5 years after the hurricane struck.  Cigler discusses ma... More »

Book Brief The Municipal Budget Crunch

Ryann K. Ellis

Many public officials have great ideas, but tend to work in a vacuum, so they don’t know what other cities are doing. The Municipal Budget Crunch, a new release compiled by Roger L. Kemp, Ph.D., offers an inside look at programs working municipalities across the n... More »