Preparing Today’s Youths for Tomorrow’s Workplace

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Ann Pace

Young people bring a variety of strengths to the workforce, including creativity, adaptability, technology savvy, and global awareness. Today’s leadership and job skills development programs offer opportunities across the pipeline to cultivate these competencies i... More »

Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company

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Paul Harris

To help meet its proficiency goals, the company’s Training and Development Mentoring Committee launched a competency-based program last year that readily evaluates employee skills gaps and addresses them efficiently. More »

Count Me In

Jennifer Homer

Welcome to ASTD and the Career Development Community of Practice. This community has a dual role: to help individuals develop their skills and expertise and advance their own careers, and to help those interested in taking their organization’s career development p... More »

Crawl, Walk, Then Run Through Training

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Paul Glatzhofer

This training approach is based on the premise that you must learn to crawl before you run. More »

Will Work for Manufacturing Skills

Ann Pace

The U.S. manufacturing industry has captured the news spotlight recently as the nation’s leaders and economic experts address the skills gap. More »