Mary McNevin helps U.S. Venture prepare future leaders while broadening its talent acquisition scope.

Talent development and HR roles are combining for an integrated people function.

A series of steps—called TACK—can help hiring managers empower independent workers while following company policy.

Get employees technologically up to speed through hiring, upskilling, and reskilling.

Chief Talent Officer Michael Arena is helping build adaptability into General Motors’ workforce.

These tips can help organizations plan for the future.

Hilti stands on a leadership model of developing people and achieving outstanding results.

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

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

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

Video gaming and talent development take off in tandem.

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

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.

Toll Brothers is a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2016, the company had revenue of $5.2 billion. Even with that track record, the firm is gearing up for serious change. Cynthiann King started with Toll Brothers in 2012 as a training director. Three promotions later she is now vice president of learning and development, with company-wide responsibility for L&D. Her boss, Joy Roman, was hired early in 2017 as the company’s first chief human resources officer. Both women’s organization-wide roles signal the rising importance of human...

Ann Parker describes what you can look forward to in the Fall 2017 issue of CTDO magazine.

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?

Visionary teacher and lifelong learner Pat McLagan views learning ability as software for processing daily life. And like all software, learning software require upgradesand regular reboots!

An organization's talent development function exists, among other reasons, to develop employees so that they're able to contribute to achieving organizational goals. But if employees likely won't remain with one company throughout their entire careers, and given the evolving work dynamics in place, it's to employees' advantage to take professional development into their own hands, to achieve their personal goals. Right?