T+D Magazine

Show Your Work

Rather than telling employees how to do something, show them.

The Economics of Organization Development

An "OD economist" shares his insights on mixing social science with business.

Sales Winners Sell Differently

For a better chance at closing the deal, connect, convince, and collaborate with your clients.

Driving Business Alignment for Strategic Change

At one higher education institution, learning and development steers a major cultural and business change effort.

Facilitating Mentee-Driven Goal Setting

By skillfully assisting with the goal-setting process, mentors can help mentees set their own goals and take ownership of their career development.

A Collaborative and Power-Free Partnership

A review of Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, Third Edition by Chip R. Bell and Marshall Goldsmith

Maximize the Internship Experience for Employers and Students

A well-designed internship program helps tap into the creativity and energy of Millennials while offering the opportunity to develop future training and development professionals.

Roger Kaufman

An interview with Roger Kaufman, Professor Emeritus, Florida State University

Engage the Unengaged

Without engagement, organizations are fostering a zombie-like workforce, which can thwart all change efforts.

Tools of the Trade

The Ultimate Development Toolbox will help any training and development team to design effective learning programs.

Mastering Millennial Leadership Development

According to a recent ASTD-i4cp research report, Millennial employees are in need of leadership development—and are asking for it, too.

Milestones and Practical Research Mark Profession’s Evolution

Experts weigh in on the past, present, and future of the profession.

Looking Back at 70 Years of ASTD

During its 70th anniversary year, the society examines how far it has come and where it’s headed in the future.

Coaching Managers Through Change

Use coaching strategies and communication best practices to support managers through organizational change.

Greed for Speed

From speed dating to speed reading, few aspects of our lives escape the pressure to be shortened. Learning is no exception.

Federal Employees Report a Slight Decline in Job Satisfaction

An annual federal employee survey shows overall satisfaction, but also shows signs of growing discontent.

Must-Have Apps for Small Business Owners

For business owners with little time to devote to administrative tasks, the following web-based applications can keep your company operations running efficiently.

YouthBuild: Developing a New Generation of Learners, Thinkers, and Leaders

Teens and young adults are given the opportunity to build their career skills.

Realism and Thriftiness Characterize the Re-Generation

New research on members of the Re-Generation—those born after 1995—shows that they are shaping up to be a thrifty and responsible group.

The Disengagement Crisis in China

A severe employee engagement deficit is becoming a human capital catastrophe in China.

Three Key Ingredients for Learner-Centered Software Training

Tips for designing engaging software training.

Advancing Accountability in Your Organization

Stuck with slacking co-workers? Why you are to blame.

Top 10 Jobs for Military Veterans

G.I. Jobs’s Top 20 Hot Jobs for Veterans list highlights the top positions that military-friendly employers most frequently identify as expanding areas of business.

Leaders Miss Vital Clues to Manage Company Risk

Identifying risky behavior and the sectors and levels at which it is likely to occur can inform talent management programs and risk management strategies.

The Learning Shift

Learning and development’s footprint continues to shrink while social learning expenditures are on the rise.

When Taking a Chance Pays Off

Elizabeth Koyle has learned that a step into the unknown can be the most important career move that you take.

ASTD Celebrates 70 Years

This issue celebrates the 70th anniversary of ASTD. Along with an article that examines the evolution of ASTD to what it is today, I had the pleasure of asking some of the biggest names in this profession about the first 70 years and the next 10 for an article that praises the history of this field and this not-for-profit association.

Flexible Learning

One health insurance company develops executive training ideal for its busy leaders.

Maximizing New Manager Success

An insurance company adopts a four-pronged approach to developing successful new managers.

A SCORM Evolution

Here comes a new approach to distance learning and tracking data with the release of the Experience API version 1.0.

John Maxwell on Leadership

On his blog, John Maxwell on Leadership, he shares his thoughts on leadership and lessons from his vast arsenal of leadership education materials, and provides his reading list and book-writing process.

Filling the Leadership Pipeline

With the unemployment rate in the United States jumping to 8.5 percent in recent months (the highest it's been since 1983, according to the U.S. Department of Labor) the current recession is showing few signs of abating. Many blame a lack of government oversight in key financial areas and massive breakdown in...

Integrated Talent Management: Building a Strategy One Block at a Time

A new talent development initiative seeks to change how employees view their careers and redefine what talent strategy means for the organization.

Learning’s Role in Integrated Talent Management

"The field of talent management is undergoing major change and disruption, ergo the understandable sense of chaos about integrated strategies at this time." - ASTD Talent Management Advisory Committee member Although there is little argument regarding the importance of effective talent management pr...

Understand Your Audience

When examining the many challenges that come with creating global virtual classrooms, the key is to understand the makeup, learning styles, and expectations of your audience.

Cost vs. Investment

A study sought to determine which training method was most effective for behavior change—interactivity or the chance to fail.

Take the Pain Out of Writing Training Materials

Use this four-step process to get your ideas in order and create effective training materials quickly and easily.

Make Something New

A review of Innovating for People: Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods by LUMA Institute

Managing Effectively Without Micromanaging

In today’s agile, fast-paced business environment, it’s important to trust, let go, and empower the people you hire to take ownership and do their jobs.

Growing Globally With Consistency and Scalability

To keep up with an international workforce and multiple channel partners, Orbitz Worldwide partnered with SumTotal to put e-learning to work.

John Seely Brown

An interview with John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California and Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge, Los Angeles, California

Virtual Reality

Immersive learning simulations are more than game play. They offer many benefits both to the learners and the organization.

When East Meets West

A global merger between U.S. and Chinese companies required the development of a leadership philosophy that combines Eastern and Western cultures.

Bright Ideas

In addition to idea generation, sustainable innovation is the science and discipline of aligning innovative thinking and leadership to people capabilities and business goals.

On the Case

At the Defense Acquisition University, case studies are an integral part of its program manager’s development course. Here’s how to make best use of them.

Inside the Learning Brain

Cognitive neuroscience will shape the future of corporate learning practices.

Lights, Camera, Action

Follow these tips to effectively tell a story through video training.

Mobile Masters

To encourage knowledge retention and behavior change in a saleforce, Working Simply converted its trademark productivity program into a custom mobile learning app.

Complexity Compromises Learner-led E-Learning

The simplicity or complexity of course content determines whether learner-led e-learning is a good training option.

Three Reasons to Use the xAPI to Capture Learning

How can training and development professionals track and aggregate all of this learning in a consistent, reliable way?