Hot Topic: Data scientist - the hot new career

If big data guilt - all that useful but unused information collected by your talent management system or your LMS - is keeping you awake at night, consider hiring a data scientist to mine that gold. More »

Inside Story: PepsiCo's Finance University

Ruth Weiss

PepsiCo's Finance University breaks new ground in capability development with a scalable learning model, a strategically defined curriculum, and advanced learning approaches. More »

When Learning Steps in, Success Improves

ASTD Staff

George A. Wolfe is former vice president of global learning and development at Steelcase University. Shawn E. Merritt is president of SDI Consulting. They spoke with Learning Executives Briefing on the value that the learning organization can bring to the planning and i... More »

Get Out the Yardstick

ASTD Staff

StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths Tom Rath Gallup Press About nine years ago Gallup released the online version of its assessment tool, StrengthsFinder. Lots of organizations, and even families,... More »

Office Furniture Company Uses Performance Consulting to Identify Skill Development Needs

Pat Galagan

Steelcase, a global office furniture company with 13,000 employees and 600 dealer locations around the world, bases its designs on observations of how people work. Those designs are intended to help improve the performance of people and teams at work. Steelcase Universi... More »