December 15, 2010 - by ASTD Staff
With advancing technology and an impending labor crisis on the horizon, there is a greater need than ever to find and nurture the talent within our organizations. We have greatly improved in succession planning, but we have failed miserably in the opposite talent develo... More »
August 15, 2010 - by John Baun, Mary Thomas Scott
In 2008, the United States spent an estimated $134 billion on employee training. Employers train employees for improving job skills, career advancement, industry certifications, and the quality of life of their employees, among other reasons. Employers presume a return ... More »
July 15, 2010 - by Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney
2009 is one year that none of us will ever forget. We all had to shrink to squeeze through the eye of the storm, and we had to learn how to compete in a completely new game. Our competitors, we found, are no longer in our neighborhoods or on the other side of town. They... More »
July 14, 2010 - by Marjorie Derven
The global recession and threat of a jobless recovery have converged with decade-long seismic shifts in the workplace (Table 1) to create profound implications for today's employees. These volatile changes have been dubbed the "new normal," where long-held assumptions h... More »
May 14, 2010 - by Ken Buch
Today's methods of conducting business impede employee productivity. Many organizations operate with incredibly high expectations for creating quality deliverables in an unreasonably short period of time. Employees are expected, or even required, to work long hours with... More »
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