Learning executives remain optimistic about the health of learning, according to the ATD's Learning Executive Confidence Index, which assesses the expectations of learning executives for the learning function in organizations for the next six months. The LXCI score for the third quarter of 2015 is 68 out of 100. This is identical to second-quarter results. This score is just over one point higher than...

Leadership matters, and most people acknowledge that leaders affect an organization's value. However, by just observing that a particular leader is visionary or inspiring, by focusing only on the person at the top and ignoring the larger leadership team, or by failing to assess whose leadership capability is woven into the organization's DNA, investors make simplistic and intuitive assessments of value. Enter the leadership capital index—a Moody's or Standard & Poor's (S&P) rating for leadership. A leadership capital index provides investors a way to...

From her vantage point atop the learning organization at Comcast Cable, it's easy for Martha Soehren to forget how radically different things were only six years ago. That was before she and her team tapped a hidden wellspring of support from within senior management to help centralize their far-reaching learning operation. Little has remained the same. Today's Comcast University has been reconceived for maximum effectiveness—its 550 learning and development professionals divided among five colleges, one for each business function. Its 5 million hours of annual...

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.

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