My first interest in ASTD came in 1949 when I finished my MBA in Personnel Management from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. A discussion with my professor, Dr. Russell Moberly, led me to take a job as an instructor with the Management Institute (MI) of th... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Beginner Level Content , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

Measuring and evaluating the success and results of your change initiative are vital. Knowing what data to look for and how to interpret it are keys to knowing whether you are on the path to success or failure. Often, organizations decide upon a set of measures ... More »

Learning & Development

Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

In the world of physics, a tipping point is considered the point at which an object is displaced from a state of stable equilibrium into a new, different state. In sociology, a tipping point refers to an event in which a previously rare phenomenon becomes dramatical... More »

Learning & Development

Assessment , Designing Learning , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating

Workplace professionals who achieve certification through the ROI Institute have a professional responsibility to educate colleagues on the ROI methodology process that was created by Jack J. Phillips and Patti Phillips. There are many leadership roles and responsibilit... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

In the business world, CEOs have one prioritygrowth. In the world of talent management, practitioners should have only one prioritytheir CEOs vision. And so, as one of these practitioners, you should have only one fundamental question: Does your organizations performanc... More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Human Performance Improvement , Measuring and Evaluating