Earlier this year, AARP released a study that showed that 72 percent of HR executives identified the pending retirements of Baby Boomers are a problem that their organizations hope to address. Moreover, these executives also shared the strategies they are using to comba... More »

Human Capital , Higher Education , Senior Leaders & Executives

Career Development , Skills Gap , Human Performance Improvement , Competencies

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

The approach described in this article builds off the “co-op” idea started at Northeastern University. Having senior leaders engage with a group on their experiential learning is a perfect fit. In a recent case using this approach, we had a series of six lea... More »

Senior Leaders & Executives , Higher Education

Advanced Level Content , Faculty , Leadership Development

In a Re:Search article in July’s T+D, I report on a study that showed  that managers applied their knowledge only 32% of the time. (See Shocking Evidence of Managers’ Knowing-Doing Gap.) It got me thinking… how much do we apply our knowledge of L... More »

Workforce Development , Higher Education , Senior Leaders & Executives , Learning & Development

Skills Gap , Management Development , Faculty , Competencies , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function

Research , Evidence-Based Best Practices