Ghaziabad, India — In a simple classroom above a storefront on a bustling street, four young men crowded around the colorful innards of an open computer hard drive while their teacher explained in Hindi how it all worked.
The computer repair course was among 25 offerings at Gras Academy, a private institution with 58 skills training centers across India, including this one in Ghaziabad, a city on the outskirts of New Delhi.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/ASTD-Blog/2013/06/Filling-Indias-Huge-Need-for-Vocational-Training
Natalie Chan collected bets, dealt cards and calculated payoffs. She was not a croupier working in a casino — in fact, at 20, she was not even old enough to be on the gambling floor at the glitzy casinos just a short walk from campus.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/ASTD-Blog/2013/07/Training-Future-Macau-Casino-Bosses
You probably chose to read this because you think you are surrounded by incompetent people. It’s true. But you must know from the start—this is my twofold approach in this story—that if you deem more than a quarter of the people around you as incompetent, then you are the most incompetent of them all.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Global-HRD-Blog/2013/07/Managing-People-as-Incompetents
The nature of organizations has changed, and the leaders they require in the future will be fundamentally different from those they require today. It is time to recreate leadership for the requirements of the modern organization. To do so is a formidable leadership challenge. To successfully meet this challenge we must do two things really, really well: challenge the existing myths of leadership and take an entirely fresh approach to how we develop leadership in our organizations.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Global-HRD-Blog/2013/06/Lets-Recreate-Leadership
Blog #1: The nature of organizations has changed, and the leaders they require in the future will be fundamentally different from those they require today. It is time to recreate leadership for the requirements of the modern organization.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Global-HRD-Blog/2013/06/Rereate-LeadershipBlog-1-of-4
IN today's professional arena, which is becoming increasingly globalised, uncertain and unpredictable, the importance of effective empowered leadership is extremely important.
Women are especially now entering the workplace in unprecedented numbers and are beginning to hold senior leadership positions in all sectors. They have come to recognise that leadership is not the monopoly of men, but any capable person can be a leader provided he or she is freely and fairly chosen or elected to serve in that capacity.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/ASTD-Blog/2013/05/Tanzania-Why-Empowered-Leadership-Is-Important
As we apply traditional mindsets and models of leadership, it becomes clear pretty quickly that we would need the ‘bionic man’ leading our organizations – someone with extraordinary capabilities to out run, out jump and out maneuver the opponent. Honestly, few have these skills, capabilities and experience. And fewer can develop them in the timeframe that most of our businesses need them.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Global-HRD-Blog/2013/04/Think-Organization-When-Developing-Leadership
At ASTD 2013, we will have more than 9,000 training & development professionals; 2,000 of those will come from 75 different countries outside the U.S. All of this diversity will be represented by global voices in 28 sessions with 45 speakers from more than 17 different countries.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/ASTD-Blog/2013/04/Global-Voices-at-ASTD-2013-Bilingual-Spanish
When examining the many challenges that come with creating global virtual classrooms, the key is to understand the makeup, learning styles, and expectations of your audience.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/04/Webex-Understand-Your-Audience
A global merger between U.S. and Chinese companies required the development of a leadership philosophy that combines Eastern and Western cultures.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/04/When-East-Meets-West