Learning leaders need to focus on building the skills for the future, rather than just for today.

Don't let a candidate's confidence cause you to overlook a potential lack of competence.

Build a foundation of knowledge management to handle lost knowledge with employee departures.

Diversity and inclusion requires leaders to set an example to foster inclusive environments.

Five negotiation strategies to take you far in life and in the C-suite.

A large public accounting firm teams up employees to support the local community.

Learn to capitalize on collaborative software without killing productivity.

Dave DeFilippo leads an aggressive approach to overcome a dry talent pool.

Use succession business metrics to develop strategies to retain top talent.

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

Use the Greiner Curve to assess and anticipate business needs and create a talent development strategy to address them.

The argument: Traditional performance appraisals don’t improve performance. Two thought leaders share their contrasting viewpoints on the topic.

Video gaming and talent development take off in tandem.

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? 

Talent development doesn’t belong under the HR umbrella. Or does it? Org charts worldwide differ regarding whether talent development is a separate entity from HR, reporting directly to the CEO, or falls under HR, reporting to a CHRO. Although it’s clear that talent development and HR must work collaboratively, which structure is best?