Tenured employees assist newer employees with leadership skills in this win-win program at Jacobs.

The Modern Learning Ecosystem outlines a practical approach for navigating nonstop workplace change. Inspired by decades of operations and talent development experience with the world’s most dynamic companies, learning and enablement expert JD Dillon challenges the traditional L&D mindset with a tried-and-true framework that makes right-fit support a meaningful part of the everyday workflow. This book provides step-by-step instructions for architecting a disruption-ready learning ecosystem that will help employees solve today’s biggest problems while building the...

Make DEI Training Foundational in Your Organization When done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on peoples vulnerabilities in all facets of their lives. Expert facilitator Maria Morukian provides the guidance you need to develop the knowledge and skills required for DEI training.

As Senior Vice President of Talent, Learning, and Insights at 3M, Kathryn Coleman shares how her team is meeting emerging skills needs, explains the role of mentoring and coaching at 3M, and describes her own personal leadership philosophy.

For talent development, this is no different.The fields of artificial intelligence and talent development have been on a collision course for decades, and their convergence has already occurred. On the horizon, AI-powered innovations are transforming the workplace and the role of the talent development professional, affecting recruiting to training to compensation.

Managers as Coaches: Boosting Employee and Organizational Performance examines organizations expectations, training, and support for managers as coaches of their direct reports. It compares the practices of high-performing organizations and other organizations, exploring whether managers use or receive training on several key coaching skills, how and when organizations provide coaching training to their managers, and the top barriers to having managers who practice coaching with their direct reports.

Use metrics to determine a mentorship program’s return on investment.

Embrace the Power of Executive CoachingAs businesses become more complex, they tend to lean on their high performers to fend off competitors, innovate, and pivot to unexplored markets. But who do these executives and leaders turn to when they need to refine their own skills?Executive coaches.

If youve been directing your organizations talent development effort during the last few years, you might think youre on a journey without a map. There are few published resources to guide you in a challenge that many experts promise will only become more urgent, and necessary, in the coming years.

Building and launching mentoring programs can seem daunting. Yet despite the initial challenges, mentoring programs are increasing in popularity, with more than two-thirds of top executives reporting to have a mentor.

Founded in 1928, Maersk Line is now the worlds largest container-shipping companyno small feat in such a cutthroat industry. The team called in Cary Bailey-Findley, head of Maersk Lines learning and organizational development (LOD) team, to determine the root of the problem, and it became clear that the organizations call center managers needed to better train their agents to deliver positive customer experiences.Working together, the LOD and CSE teams created the CARE PROgram in 2014.

How to assess the organizational impact of a coaching program.