The shared services revolution began in the late 1980s with the adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software packages by leading commercial enterprises. These highly standardized and sc... More »

Government , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Change Management , Economy , Innovation , Intermediate-level Content , Trends , World Events

Merriam-Webster defines the term strategy as a careful plan or method; a clever stratagem; the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal. To make training more strategic within government agencies, it must b... More »

Career Development , Government , Learning & Development , Workforce Development

Beginner Level Content , Career Development , Career Planning , Designing Learning , Leadership Development , Management Development , Managing Organizational Knowledge , North America

From the moment students start elementary school all the way through college, they are taught concepts mainly through verbal instruction that teachers expect will later be applied in the real world. However, in school, teachers ... More »

Government , Learning & Development , Workforce Development

Beginner Level Content , Business Impact , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Management Development , Training and Development - General

You are part of an organization that is almost a century old, with a decentralized workforce that spans the entire United States (and employs staff in both its most remote regions and its busiest cities) and a mission that inclu... More »

Government

Beginner Level Content , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Training and Development - General