Knowledge Delivered in Any Other Form Is... Perhaps Sweeter

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Aparna Nancherla

At a bimonthly Friday happy hour, a group of employees shares stories of baseball games and baby showers, interspersed with bits of knowledge about their jobs. Amazingly, people still remember these random pieces of learning come Monday morning, despite being mixed up w... More »

2008 Salary Survey Learnings Earnings

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ASTD Staff

ASTD's learning and performance professionals are well-compensated, earning on average more than $35,000 more than the national average of $48,000. However, as with past ASTD salary surveys, men earn 16 percent more on average than women. The ASTD market research depart... More »

Rapid Talent Development

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Jean Adams

There was a time when it was possible to anticipate critical skills shortages in advance, to launch organization-wide programs to close the skill gaps before threats materialized, and to monitor progress with an eye on future needs. But, that's rarely the case today. Th... More »

Blueprint for Planning Learning

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Jay Bahlis

In a knowledge economy, an organization's ability to quickly adapt to changing realities is critical to its success. To facilitate the upkeep of knowledge and skills, workplace learning professionals seek innovative training design models and delivery methods so they ca... More »

Organizational Culture

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Dorian LaGuardia

Workplace learning and performance professionals understand that culture can easily limit much of what we need to do. Because culture is hard to pin down in practical terms, let alone to effectively change for the better, it remains a baffling issue. However, organizati... More »