Expanding the Role of Succession Planning

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Robert Kleinsorge

Spurred on by global growth, global competition, and the recent economic crisis, companies are restructuring themselves more frequently and more rapidly. Such frequent dismantling and reassembling of a company's organizational structure creates gaps in leadership at all... More »

A Leadership Skills Gap?

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Dean Smith

As leaders struggle to ensure the long-term viability of their organizations in a volatile economy, a recent study from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) reports that a glaring gap exists between the leadership skills organizations have now and the ones they will... More »

Bridging the Skills Gap: New Factors Compound the Growing Skills Shortage

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Pat Galagan

"Bridging the Skills Gap" is the third report from ASTD to cover the growing importance of talent to organizational performance and the skills gap that threatens so many organizations today. This report updates the picture, including the role of job losses during the cu... More »

Growing Pains

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ASTD Staff

Leaders at a large hospital learn that they may be responsible for organizational conflict following widespread company changes. More »

Why Not Mentoring?

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Paula Ketter

In a recent ASTD/i4cp research report, "Learning in a Down Economy," only 23 percent of learning professionals admit that their firms currently use mentoring and peer coaching to a high or very high extent, while more than 67 percent of learning executives say that they... More »