Based on the ATD Research report by the same name, this presentation examines organizations expectations, training, and support for managers as coaches of their direct reports.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, instructional designers are tasked with creating learning experiences that meet employees’ informational needs while also considering learning needs, time constraints, and budget factors. This means that instructional designers need to understand learning models, have skills in developing content, and understand the business. Instructional Design in Practice: The Essential Skills and Resources examines the skills and resources necessary for the instructional design role, as described by 339 talent development...

Based on the ATD Research report by the same name, this presentation examines organizations expectations, training, and support for managers as coaches of their direct reports.

Businesses create solutions to solve problems and fulfill the needs of their customers. However, having a good product or solution isn’t enough for a successful business strategy. Organizations must also employ talented sales professionals to sell the products. And these sales professionals need to be supported by an effective sales enablement team.Drawing on a sample of 262 talent development professionals, this report investigates key questions to provide benchmark data and highlight best practices about sales enablement. ATD Research also took a closer look at...

Onboarding programs are a crucial piece connecting a new employee to an organization. These programs should provide new hires with an opportunity to buy in to the organization’s mission by imparting knowledge about its history and culture and giving them the skills they need to succeed in their new roles. New Employee Onboarding: Setting the Stage for Success draws on a sample of 768 talent development professionals to investigate key questions around new employee onboarding, provide benchmarking data, and highlight best practices. To add context to the findings...

For an organization to succeed, it needs to invest in its talent. However, with staff shortages and budget constraints, talent development professionals may struggle to convince their organizations that investing in staff is the right decision. So, ATD Research collaborated with CTDO Next to create a series of case studies to help TD professionals understand how high-performing organizations are making the case for funding TD projects.These case studies feature small, medium, and large organizations (based on the number of employees) from various industries,...

In today’s global world, organizations must create accurate and useful training content for employees in other regions, countries, and continents. These organizations need to localize their training. This goes beyond just translation, including changing phrases, colors, and images.In Localizing Your Learning: How Adapting Your Content Can Make Training More Effective, 311 TD professionals answered questions about how they localize training, how it benefits employees, and the challenges they face. Approximately two-thirds of respondents adapted some of their...

Bridging the Skills Gap: Using Learning Opportunities to Address Current and Future Talent Needs examines the current and future skills gaps organizations are facing, as described by 356 talent development professionals. The 2024 skills gap whitepaper marks the eighth iteration the Association for Talent Development (formerly the American Society for Training & Development) has published. New this year is a section that focuses on the training needs of 522 working Americans, which provides insight into the thoughts of general employees in addition to TD...

The healthcare industry is one of the largest sectors of the US economy, and navigating the complexities of the field and the many training requirements and priorities can be a major challenge for talent development professionals. The 2024 State of Healthcare Training report examines the training activities of US healthcare organizations. Based on a survey of 275 talent development professionals working in the wider healthcare, pharmaceutical, and healthcare technology industries, the report provides data that will aid readers in benchmarking their own...

Based on the ATD Research report by the same name, this presentation examines organizations expectations, training, and support for managers as coaches of their direct reports.

In today’s business environment, technology is vital to the growth and advancement of all organizational departments. In talent development, technology is an essential component for creating, managing, delivering, and analyzing learning. ATD Research was interested in learning more about the tools organizations were using how often they formally audited their systems, how they managed data governance, and more about the people who managed and administered an organization’s learning technology ecosystem.The report found four key findings:1. While organizations...

Based on the ATD Research report by the same name, this presentation examines organizations expectations, training, and support for managers as coaches of their direct reports.

Based on the ATD Research report by the same name, this presentation examines organizations expectations, training, and support for managers as coaches of their direct reports.

On March 13, 2023, Angela Cheng-Cimini, SVP Talent and CHRO at Harvard Business Publishing, led a discussion about the new employee experience, including the hyper-personalization of learning and development.

The 2023 State of the Industry report, sponsored by Allego and AllenComm, is ATD’s annual review of talent development trends, spending, and activities that can help benchmark your team’s work. Drawing upon ATD’s 2023 survey, which gathered information from 454 organizations across a diverse range of industries and company sizes, this year’s report presents results in a robust, data-driven guide to demonstrate what happened in talent development in 2022 amid the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and the changes in the global economy. Easy to read and including...

On January 28, 2021 during a CTDO Next working session, members discussed the go-forward plan for 2021. They shared ideas about the networks learning agenda, working agenda, and tactical agenda for the months to come.

Drawing upon a sample of 541 TD professionals, this report investigates key questions to provide benchmark data and highlight best practices. Specifically, ATD Research focused on the importance of hybrid work policies, hiring and onboarding, and training. Organizations had a variety of reasons for offering employees a hybrid work experience. The three most common were providing flexibility, improving employee satisfaction and retention, and being competitive to recruit top talent.

What does it mean to innovate strategically and manage the ability to continuously do so?

In this episode of ATD's Talent Development Leader podcast, former Fortune 5 executive and CHRO Amii Barnard-Bahn shares a powerful message about the nature of change. Amii thoughtfully deconstructs change and suggests a new mindset for approaching it. She offers practical tips and examples for ways TD leaders can build momentum for change initiatives and sustain them. And she explains how we all can better prepare ourselves to be more resilient and lead through ambiguity with grace.

In TD Salary and Benefits Report 2023, ATD Research provides valuable information about salary and benefits in the talent development profession. Based on a survey of 482 talent development professionals, the report identifies the base salary of individuals working in talent development, as well as non-base pay such as bonuses and incentive pay. The report provides information by job level, years of experience, certification, work schedule, US region, industry, and organization size. In addition to helping talent development professionals benchmark their salaries...