Tamar Elkeles presented her session Secrets to Building an Award-Winning Learning Organization, at ATD 2016. In this segment, she argues for a new learning model that takes into account evidence-based practices and the Millennial generation.

Tamar Elkeles presented her session Secrets to Building an Award-Winning Learning Organization, on May 22, 2016, at ATD 2016. In this segment, she introduces the topic and discusses current realities.

Tamar Elkeles presented her session Secrets to Building an Award-Winning Learning Organization, on May 22, 2016, at ATD 2016. In this segment, she discusses developing a leadership pipeline and communicating impact.

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) surveyed 199 talent development professionals with knowledge of their organizations learning evaluation efforts. Of those, only 44 percent think their evaluation efforts are helping them reach organizational learning goals.

Research from the Association for Talent Development (ATD) and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) reveals that robust cultures of learning are distinct hallmarks of organizations that consistently produce the best business resultscompanies that lead the worlds markets in revenue growth, profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction. Through the lens of high performance, ATD and i4cp explore the practices learning and development leaders are applying to drive vibrant learning cultures.

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...

The argument: M-learning needs to be part of your current learning strategy. It's worth the time and effort. Sure, your workforce is probably already mobile. Many employees are using mobile resources to get information they need to do their jobs. Does it make sense for you to provide a more specific solution for them via mobile? Will it justify the resource allocation required? Will you see both short- and long-term improvement in performance? Going mobile is top of mind for many learning organizations today. Is now the time to go full throttle?

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...

In today's knowledge economy, organizations need talent development functions that can support the unique competency needs of their businesses. To better understand how organizations are structuring and aligning talent development, the Association for Talent Development and Rothwell & Associates partnered to identify the areas organizations most often use to build a talent development structure for meeting current and future competency needs in a world in which talent has become the engine of business

As a talent-led company, Accenture must look to the future of talent development. Rahul Varma leads that charge. "The role of learning at Accenture has always been critical," says Varma. "We are a talent-led organization and we often say that learning is in our DNA. Learning is a part of what we offer to the world." Varma should know. He's been with the company for 20 years in some key HR leadership roles. Talent development touches every aspect of an employee's path through the company...

As the chief talent development officer, you often are required to explain abstract and complicated workforce issues to the rest of the C-suite. Maybe you need to connect the myriad puzzle pieces of a new performance improvement strategy or clarify context so you can accurately depict the real problems plaguing your company's culture. Whether you're talking about employee engagement, performance management, corporate culture, change management, or organizational development, your authority will rise quickly if you can make these core talent development topics...

In this interview, Walter McFarland talks about the latest research and best practices in organizational change as it relates to talent development.

In a mere five years, learning will look dramatically different from what it looks like today, and organizational learning and development functions arent prepared to meet the needs of tomorrows learners. To find out what actions learning functions can take now, ATD and i4cp interviewed several leaders of learning functions that are actively imagining and preparing for the future.

As a senior talent development executive, you have a lot on your plate. Strategic planning, budget reviews, meetings with employees and clients (the list goes on)—all of which are paired with a constant stream of emails, text alerts, and phone calls that demand your attention. Amid all this noise, staying focused can be tough. But you can use the very technology that seems to zap your focus and interrupt your workflow to improve your focus and increase your productivity. These apps can help senior leaders maintain focus in an "always-on" world.

Welcome to the premiere issue of CTDO magazine, the Association for Talent Development's (ATD) new offering created specifically for chief talent development officers and other C-suite leaders whose responsibility includes leading the talent development efforts in their organizations. CTDO is the flagship offering for our community of practice focused on the needs and interests of senior leaders and executives. It is an example of ATD's commitment to serve all facets of the talent development profession and the practitioners who do the work...