2011

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Developing Results: Aligning Lerning's Goals and Outcomes With Business Performance Measures (Vol. 3, No. 5)

Developing Results: Aligning Learning’s Goals and Outcomes With Business Performance Measures is intended to examine the ways in which high-performing organizations approach the evaluation of learning and tie that measurement to overall business performance measures. The Study found that a strong correlation exists between goal alignment and market performance, as well as a strong correlatio...

Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) Q4, 2011

Learning executives’ expectations were slightly more positive at the year’s end. This quarter continued to show results that were higher than those seen in each quarter of 2010. However, the LXCI score remains lower than in the first two quarters for 2011. Derived from the responses of 408 learning executives to an online, invitation-only survey, these scores demonstrate that collectiv...

2011 State of the Industry

The State of the Industry report is ASTD’s definitive review of workplace learning and development trends. This annual report includes organization benchmarking data from ASTD BEST Awards Winners,G500 Companies, and other organizations from 2002 to date. ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent $1228 per learner on employee learning and development in 2010. Nearly two-thirds was spent on...

Suite Synchronicity: Exploring the Relationship and Alignment between the CLO and the Executive Team (Vol. 3, No. 4)

Sponsored by SkillSoft, this report, Suite Synchronicity: Exploring the Relationship and Alignment between the CLO and the Executive Team, examines the relationship and alignment between the chief learning officer and the executive team. ASTD and i4cp collaborated to investigate the relationship between the CLO and the executive team from the perspective of successful executive-level learning prac...

Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) Q3, 2011

Learning to Innovate: Exploring Learning’s Critical Role in Fostering Innovation (Vol. 3, No. 3)

Learning to Innovate: Exploring Learning's Critical Role in Fostering Innovation examines the importance of innovation and the ways learning influences it. The learning function can and should play a critical role in developing and sustaining the innovative culture that is the hallmark of successful organizations. There is little doubt that organizations of any size or industry need to innovate ...

Salary & Compensation: ASTD's Learning and Development Industry Report 2011 (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Salary & Compensation: ASTD's Learning and Development Industry Report, 2001 (Vol. 3, No. 2)

ASTD's Learning and Development Industry Salary and Compensation Report 2011 contains the findings of the 2011 learning and development salary and compensation survey. Based on the responses of 1,997 L&D professionals at all levels of the industry, the 2011 survey cast a broad and deep net of inquiry and analysis into the compensation of L&D professionals to include assessments of salary, ...

Learning Executive's Confidence Index Q2-11

Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) Q2, 2011

Learning executives continued to report positive expectations for the learning function following the first quarter of 2011. The LXCI was derived from the responses of 357 learning executives to an online, invitation-only survey. The overall LXCI score for the second quarter of 2011 remained about the same in Q1 at 67.1, decreasing just slightly from Q1 2011(67.3). These scores demonstrate that co...

Mobile Learning: Learning in the Palm of Your Hand (Vol. 3, No. 1)

It is no secret that mobile computing is here, but what does that mean for learning professionals and the learning function? How will it affect instructional design? What influence, if any, will device manufacturers, platform providers, and software developers have on mobile learning's future? ASTD and i4cp partnered to investigate the topic and the resulting report, Mobile Learning: Learning in t...

Better, Smarter, Faster: How Web 3.0 Will Transform Learning In High Performing Organizations (Vol. 2, No. 7)

ASTD's research report, Better, Smarter, Faster: How Web 3.0 Will Transform Learning In High Performing Organizations, details how emerging technologies continue to play an increasingly vital role in organizational learning. While the benefits of emerging technologies are broad and unprecedented, it is nearly impossible to keep pace with the rapid evolution of these tools. Even as today's technolo...

The Impact of Leadership Development Programs (Vol. 2, No. 6)

Although it is common for organizations to invest in leadership development programs, it is far less likely for organizations to have meaningful insight into how they can measure the programs' effectiveness and value in areas such as increased employee performance, customer satisfaction, and other success indicators. ASTD/ICF's The Impact of Leadership Development Programs report seeks to address ...