2007 ASTD Awards: Deadline September 20, 2007 Be part of the 2007 ASTD Awards. Apply for these ASTD honors: Awards for Organizations Excellence in Practice - Practices and interventions that get results. ROI Impact Study Award - Case study that demonstrates return-on-in... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Coaching and Mentoring , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating

Employee educational records have historically been captured on paper and kept in employee personnel files at the unit level. Some challenges presented by this method are the reliability of records, the challenge to produce official reports for regulatory agencies, and ... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Career Development , Human Performance Improvement , Integrated Talent Management , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

Among the many features that an LMS contains, chats and forums are perhaps the most underused and under appreciated. Yet, academia has long used discussion as the best way to build community and promote learning. So can you, by leveraging the power of chat in your LMS. ... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Informal Learning , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Measuring and Evaluating , Mobile Learning , Students , Training and Development - General

In late 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated in their landmark report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, that preventable medical errors in U.S. hospitals cost an estimated 98,000 patient lives and $7 to $19 billion every year. The IOM further ... More »

Government , Learning & Development

Global Workforce Development , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Training and Development - General

Organizational development and human resources personnel complement one another during times of change, with OD providing a big picture view and HR taking on front-line challenges. When I left a Fortune 100 company in the middle 1990s, one of my colleagues commented, "W... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Change Management , Global Workforce Development , Integrated Talent Management , Intermediate-level Content , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Training and Development - General