Workplace learning and development professionals must gain a clear understanding of how to leverage technology - especially social media tools - to facilitate learning and drive business results. To determine its place in the ASTD Competency Model, ASTD commissioned a s... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Business Impact , E-Learning , Social Learning , Training and Development - General , Trends

In 1961, Fred Turner, McDonald's former senior chairman and Ray Kroc's first grill man, founded Hamburger University in the basement of a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, making McDonald's the first restaurant organization to open a full-time traini... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development , Workforce Development

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Global Workforce Development , Management Development , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General

Unsure of what to expect, Howrey associate Melinda Lackey looked around the room nervously and wondered, not for the first time, why her firm had brought her and 19 other first-year lawyers to Washington, D.C., for a two-and-a-half day academy on how to take depositions... More »

Career Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

Career Development , Competencies , Curriculum Alignment , Designing Learning , Integrated Talent Management , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Simulations and Serious Games , Training and Development - General