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...

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...

The scale of change we will encounter during the next decade will surpass that of the past half-century, according to scientists and futurists. Although we have been talking about the "increasing pace of change" for more than 20 years, the pervasiveness of this disruptive change is now unprecedented. Leading well, gaining followership, and delivering results in the next 10 years—in which change, volatility, and industry disruption are the constant, and periods of stability and predictability are unusual—will be the challenge that underlies all else for executives...

ATD also conducted interviews with heads of learning from leading organizations that have been able to align their business and learning strategies. Some of the questions ATD seeks to answer include:This Study finds that between half and two-thirds of organizations can be described as having high alignment these organizations had better market performance than those with less alignment.The full title of this report is Aligning for Success: Connecting Learning to Business Performance.

Today, there are more turbulent changes than everand they happen faster, so everyone has to quickly adjust. In More Turbulent Change, you learn early warning signs to detect change, common reactions, and new ways to face workplace change.