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.

Your Groundbreaking Framework for Measurement and Reporting Most people find measurement, analytics, and reporting dauntingand LD professionals are no different. Measurement Demystified: Creating Your LD Measurement, Analytics, and Reporting Strategy is a much-needed and welcomed resource that breaks new ground with a framework to simplify the discussion of measurement, analytics, and reporting as it relates to LD and talent development practitioners.

Board-level discussions and a structured talent development department lead to high levels of business alignment.

Performance Management: Driving Organizational and Personal Growth explores organizations current performance management practices and identifies activities associated with top-performing organizations. The report also examines top barriers to effective performance management.

For your sales enablement practice, you want to improve your sales productivity (your sales forces ability to generate profitable revenue) . Achieving this goal first requires a strong foundation of the concepts of sales enablement and sales effectiveness.

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.

Founded in 1969 and based in Seattle, SightLife is the only global health organization working relentlessly to eliminate corneal blindness worldwide by 2040. With partners in more than 30 countries, SightLife strives to increase the number of corneal transplants performed each year to transform millions of lives around the globe.

How do you keep a workforce engaged and educated in a business that offers more than 40,000 in-store items, and hundreds of thousands more online? Home Depot: Home Improvement Meets Performance Improvement features interviews, photos, and details about talent development solutions Home Depot has initiated, such as a just-in-time performance support that associates can access from mobile devices while assisting customers.

Partner for Performance provides the keys to aligning your learning and development role with your organizations greatest needs. Performance improvement specialists Ingrid Guerra-Lpez and Karen Hicks offer a framework for fast-tracking your growth as an ally to managers and a consultant to business leaders.

One-size-fits-all training, executive-only coaching, and legacy corporate learning systems were once considered the norm, but most organizations and employees found them insufficient. Learning is becoming increasingly prioritized, as shown in Deloittes Global Human Capital Trends Report 2016 which showed that more than eight in 10 executives (84 percent) rated learning as important or very important.

CEO Natarajan Chandrasekaran recognizes how a learning culture helps his organization stay competitive in the rapidly changing global business environment. These problems arose because clients were more comfortable conversing in French, and most of the consultants working with them did not speak much French, despite having business and IT expertise.

Prove that your learning solutions contribute to business results.

In this Q&A, Vice Chair for Talent Nancy Altobello provides an inside look at the talent development function at EY (formerly Ernst & Young). How does EY define talent development? EY's talent development framework is known as EYU, which stands for EY & You and reflects the mutual commitment of...

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) surveyed 199 talent development professionals with knowledge of their organizations learning evaluation efforts. Of those, only 44 percent think their evaluation efforts are helping them reach organizational learning goals.

In this Q&A, Chief Learning Officer Rahul Varma provides an inside look at the talent development function at Accenture. How does Accenture define talent development? It's the end-to-end experience each employee needs to grow their career and reach their full potential. Talent development encompasses...

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.

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.