Chief of People and Learning Officer at Suffolk, Dave DeFilippo is fighting the war for talent in the construction industry.

Every day, 10,000 Baby Boomers retire from the workforce. And for too many businesses, when those employees walk out the door, they take with them a career’s  worth of institutional knowledge. The value of that knowledge is hard to overstate. When a veteran sales rep exits, how do you measure the value he provided customers through a deep understanding of each account’s history and issues? When a long-time manager leaves, how do you quantify the loss of her insights into her business, competitors, and employees? 

Cynthiann King leads the design, development, implementation, management, and maintenance of company-wide employee training initiatives and programs for Toll Brothers, a national, luxury homebuilder firm with more than 5,000 associates.

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. 

Rob Lauber is chief learning officer at McDonald's, where he oversees a staff of 250 people across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Under his purview are the L&D Center of Excellence and seven Hamburger Universities around the world, as well as education and accreditation programs. In all, L&D's audience is about 1.9 million McDonald's employees.

In the talent development field, having a positive impact on companies' and individuals' success is what we strive for daily. While working for a Fortune 500 technology solutions and services company, I gained new perspectives on how to be a successful and effective talent executive. I was asked to join the company to reignite the learning and talent development capabilities of one of its business sectors—in fact, the largest with more than 22,000 employees. In the two years before my arrival...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Evaluate leadership development programs all the way to impact and ROI. Measuring the Success of Leadership Development offers a proven methodology that will help you step up to the challenge.

A looming leadership gap faces most organizations over the next 10 years. As Cynthia D. McCauley of the Center for Creative Leadership notes in her overview, leadership is also a tool designed to help with a particular human dilemma: how to get individuals to work together effectively to produce collective outcomes.