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Fast-moving global markets, digital disruption, and a multigenerational workforce are just a few factors forcing companies to innovate. To help executives understand the challenges facing their organizations, a recent trends survey reveals that core talent functions such as culture, leadership, engagement, and learning round out the top 10 trends. Let's take a closer look at the top 10 trends.

Working to improve San Antonio's critical shortage of nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals by filling the pipeline with area young people, University Health System has a robust Next Generation of Healthcare Professionals program. This program gives back to the community, fulfills an important part of the University Health System mission, and provides a source for future talent recruitment.

The Talent Development Executive Confidence Index (TDXCI), formerly the Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI), is a quarterly assessment of talent development executives' short-term expectations for the health of the talent development function in organizations. The questions in the Q1 2016 survey asked about the status of talent development. Talent development executives are less optimistic about...

We are in the midst of a revolution, occasioned by the disappearance of a massive number of jobs as we know them. We are experiencing the end of work as we know it. Some clear trends currently under way will present challenges for senior leaders of organizations. But first, what does the expression "the end of work" mean?

Evidence suggests that organizations are more competitive, agile, and engaged when employees freely and consistently share knowledge. In other words, these high-performing companies have an established culture of learning. Despite the obvious benefits, only 31 percent of organizations have well-developed learning cultures, according to Building a Culture of Learning: The Foundation of a Successful Organization, a new report from ATD Research and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp).

Decision making doesn’t always require an immediate reply.

Quick! Without hesitation, jot down your company's innovation process. What's done at corporate headquarters to consistently identify high-potential ideas and translate them into market-share gains and increased profits? A mere glance at the business headlines speaks to the struggles major companies have with innovation. Institutionalizing the ability to adjust course is a...

You can't tackle innovation and creativity like you would finance management and expect to come up with the "next big idea." Innovate. Create. Transform. Invent. These are verbs; they require personal action. In other words, you have to do something to innovate. Here are a few ways C-level execs can make innovation a habit in their day-to-day workflow.

Nancy Altobello and the talent function at EY not only have a seat at the leadership table, but also a valued role throughout the organization.

In this Q&A, Vice Chair for Talent Nancy Altobello provides an inside look at the talent development function at EY (formerly Ernst & Young). How does EY define talent development? EY's talent development framework is known as EYU, which stands for EY & You and reflects the mutual commitment of...

The argument: SMEs, not trainers, are the better choice for leading training courses. It's constantly being discussed: Do subject matter experts make better teachers or should we leave the job to trainers?

The Talent Development Executive Confidence Index (TDXCI), formerly the Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI), is a quarterly assessment of talent development executives short-term expectations for the health of the talent development function in organizations. The TDXCI is a composite score that takes into account four key indicators for how talent development executives believe the talent development function will change during the next six months:The TDXCI is modeled after the Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence, which rates CEOs expectations for...

High employee engagement has been the "holy grail" for talent development during the past few decades. Getting employee engagement right translates to higher productivity, employee retention, and many other intangibles for an organization. Get it wrong, and it becomes more difficult to hire the right people, keep them happy, and move the needle on the strategic imperatives for a company. However, with the rise of such companies as Google and Facebook, with their enviable campuses and perks, organizational culture has emerged as a bigger concern for companies, a...

My charter as the new head of executive development was to build a mini version of GE's leadership university—Crotonville—for Heinz globally. The Heinz CEO counted GE's CEO at the time, Jack Welch, as a mentor and wanted to ensure we were developing our far-flung executives to be prepared for growth. Headquarters was a relatively small group of executives focused on corporate strategy and portfolio. The CEO wanted to create a more cohesive, skilled top leadership team. I was asked to propose a leadership training program and a budget for the few hundred senior...

Developing talent today with an eye on tomorrow.

Leading-edge talent development executives want not only an understanding of what's working (and what isn't) in talent development; they want fact-based guidance on how to target limited resources on the most promising initiatives for driving business results. This is now possible. Here are the key lessons we've learned about how to apply analytics to improve your learning evaluation strategy, and more importantly, to improve your return on learning investments.

In this Q&A, Chief Learning Officer Rahul Varma provides an inside look at the talent development function at Accenture. How does Accenture define talent development? It's the end-to-end experience each employee needs to grow their career and reach their full potential. Talent development encompasses...

After registering a very high 68.0 for both the second and third quarters of 2015, the Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) for the fourth quarter of 2015 dropped nearly four points to 64.3, suggesting that learning leaders' short-term expectations for the health of the learning function are down.

Investments made to learning technology companies in 2015 were the highest in the history of the ed tech industry by an extraordinary margin, according to new research. The whitepaper reveals that global investments exceeded...