Bridging the Skills Gap Part I

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Pat Galagan

Recent economic challenges have forced public- and private-sector organizations to execute their strategies with more precision than ever before and to do it with fewer resourcesespecially people. The elimination of large number... More »

Workforce Assessments: Fears and Facts

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Shelley Kirkpatrick

Assessments are more important than ever in the current government climate, which emphasizes accountability, transparency, and performance improvement. By providing actionable information that is needed to make wise and informed... More »

Performance Management Progress

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Robert Tobias

In addition to being the most powerful person in the world, the person elected president of the United States also is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the executive branch of government. Ordinarily, the organizational result... More »

A New Lease on Learning

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ASTD Staff

Gables Residential is a privately owned real estate investment trust that builds, develops, and manages multifamily communities and mixed-use developments in such U.S. urban markets as Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Boca Raton, San Diego, Austin, and Washington, D.C. A stron... More »

Deliver in 2009

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Grace MacArthur

Nobody needs to be reminded that the world is much different than it was merely 12 months ago. At Mattel Inc., the impact has been to focus on "deliver" - our watchword for the year - and that means deliver in support of key goals and metrics. There are many significant... More »