The success of any organization depends in large part on its top leaders, who establish strategy, direct and align resources, and help shape the company culture. Although CEOs are the most influential individual leaders, the collective C-suite is just as important—or perhaps more so. The executive team’s performance sets the pace for the rest of the organization. Despite the importance of executive teams’ effectiveness, research from the Center for Creative Leadership suggests that most executive teams are underperforming. 

Analytics is no longer just about finding interesting information and flagging it for managers. Enter predictive and prescriptive analytics. Historically, talent development leaders have focused on delivering and analyzing descriptive analytics, which examine past performance to help gain a good understanding of how something happened. This foundation has paved the way for predictive analytics, which turns data into valuable, actionable information. 

Mitigating risk is more important than ever in corporate America and that is particularly true for financial services. Talent management makes an important contribution to risk mitigation by ensuring a stable leadership team with the appropriate skill sets to take a company into the future. Robust succession planning is the tool that can prepare us for the future. About 10 years ago, I learned that the succession planning process was met with skepticism and impatience. 

Walmart Academy training centers have plans to incorporate virtual reality (VR) learning solutions by the end of 2017. Specifically, by using an Oculus Rift headset, about 140,000 Walmart employees are expected to be trained on simple, real-world customer service scenarios—such as dealing with spills or preparing for Black Friday. This may be the push that VR training needs to finally go mainstream.

To build the kind of rapid learning cultures that thrive in times of transformation, organizations are experimenting with microlearningdelivering short, focused learning experiences throughout an employees day, week, and career.

Established in 1890, Emerson Electric is a manufacturing company that provides engineering services and solutions, including factory automation equipment, to clients worldwide. In 2014, the Emerson Learning Center team and Terrence Donahue, corporate director of learning at Emerson, saw an opportunity to transform the Leading at Emerson program to place more focus on how employees could apply the course content in their jobs.

Partner for Performance provides the keys to aligning your learning and development role with your organizations greatest needs. Performance improvement specialists Ingrid Guerra-Lpez and Karen Hicks offer a framework for fast-tracking your growth as an ally to managers and a consultant to business leaders.

If you recognize the name B.F. Skinner, you probably associate him with behaviorism, a school of psychology that claims to explain all human behavior as a response to stimuli from the outside world (reward or punishment). If we want to change behavior, we need only change the stimuli, as the movie based on his work, A Clockwork Orange, graphically demonstrated.

Leaders help organizations maneuver transformational changes. The authors, Kartik Hosanagar and Apoorv Saxena, have argued that most of the companies are not approaching the AI-focused initiatives in the right way.

Consumers Energy provides electric and natural gas service to 6.7 million customers in Michigans Lower Peninsula. The foundation of the companys compliance begins with employee adherence to safety rules.Consumers Energy offers many safety refresher courses every year, covering topics such as proper use of safety equipment, hearing conservation, and handling hazardous waste.

One of the things I have learned from my study of learning science research is that using intuition to select the best learning solutions frequently fails. And in many cases, what they like is the opposite of what works best, which Ill explain later in the article).

Why do sports fans love opening day? The brand-new season brings with it infinite potential, renewed passion, and belief in new possibilities.

A few people have recently asked me if I would tackle the issue of making learning easy and fun. He has things to do and not enough time to do them.

CVS Veterinary Practices and Services Group (CVS Group) is one of the largest veterinary service providers in the United Kingdom. With more than 410 locations, 1,000 veterinarians, and 1,500 nurses, CVS provides corporate veterinary services through four main lines of business: veterinary practices, diagnostic laboratories, pet crematoria, and e-commerce.CVS Groups Director of Human Resources and Training, Helen Wiseman, knew that veterinarians have greater stress levels and are more likely to commit suicide than the general population in the United Kingdom.

If you want to get a sense of the vast amount of data exploding every second, visit Internet Live Stats and watch the numbers for Internet users, websites, emails, and many other statistics updated in real time. But watch outyou might find yourself mesmerized by the rolling numbers and the dizzyingly rapid pace of expansion they represent.

It seems like everyone who has ever gone to school is an expert in how to teach and instruct. These principles are all based on research in cognitive science, research on master teachers, and research on cognitive supports for learning.

Welcome to the age of immediacy. In Learning in the Age of Immediacy: 5 Factors for How We Connect, Communicate, and Get Work Done, learning strategist Brandon Carson argues that these five edge technologies are here to stay.

Visionary teacher and lifelong learner Pat McLagan views learning ability as software for processing daily life. And like all software, learning software require upgradesand regular reboots!

There's no longer any doubt: Diversity is good for business. Studies consistently show that diverse companies outperform and out-innovate the competition because diversity makes teams smarter.

Despite exponential growth in big data and data analysis technology, talent development executives and organizations still struggle with determining the best process and timing for measuring talent development initiatives. In a data-driven world where CEOs focus on return on investment to justify expenditures, demonstrating the value of talent development investments gives learning leaders pause.