Eileen MacDonald Cooke ensures CVS Health employees have the training and development they need to effectively fulfill their critical roles. In doing so, you will interact with one of CVS Healths 300,000 workers who are employed across the US and Puerto Rico.

Take a strategic approach to skilling employees for the roles technology cant and shouldnt do. But new technology, including artificial intelligence, will affect workers and their current roles, and many fear it may lead to them no longer having a job.

As companies navigate how and when to bring employees back to the workplace, communication and empathy will be key. With vaccine availability and distribution ramping up throughout the world, companies are now wondering whether to have employees return to the office and under what circumstances.

Here are four ways to create a connected culture while employees are working from home. With many companies converting to a distributed remote or hybrid format where employees work from home during the pandemic, talent leaders have been talking and thinking about how to maintain company culture.

Go beyond smile sheets and ad-hoc feedback to demonstrate the rich value of virtual learning. Savvy companies that were early adopters of working and learning remotely simply ramped up their efforts in light of the disruption.

Despite investing resources and effort, severing a partnership with an outside vendor may be the right decision. As director of talent development for Texas Instrumentsa global semiconductor company that designs and manufactures processing chipsI oversee training and development for 30,000 employees around the world.

In the midst of disruption, employees need career development. But business as unusualactually, life as unusualis what most of 2020 was about.

Ann Schulte is encouraging mindset and learning agility at Procter Gamble to tackle challenges and disruption. Agility is not what you typically expect from a 184-year-old company, but thats exactly how consumer goods manufacturer Procter Gamble responded to the challenges that unfolded in recent years.

Challenging times are prime opportunities to use current experiences to grow leadership qualities in emerging leaders. Leaders must accelerate and incorporate into disrupted work routines opportunities to build new capabilities.

In changing times, the CTDOs role must likewise evolve, expand, and grow. Although there are many layers to a proactive business strategy, one key piece of the equation focuses on supporting employeesattracting and retaining talent as well as providing individuals with opportunities to develop in varied and, oftentimes, unpredictable ways.

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.

Shape Whats Next for Learning in Your Organization Our era of dynamic change and its profound impact on personal lives and businesses throughout the world represents a new normal. They offer lessons for being the most innovative, the most aligned to business needs, and the most strategic.

As a companys senior leadership and HR leaders think through what pay transparency means for their organizations, talent development professionals stand in a unique position to play a lead influencer role on the issue. If an employer chooses to move toward full pay transparency, that will require increased sophistication of the companys talent mobility, career path and progression, training, and employee communication programs.

Corporate universities and in-person training are taking the backseat to digital learning options. According to Corporate University Xchange, the value proposition of the corporate university rests both in what it helps a company avoid (prevent a gap) and in what it addresses due to subpar performance (fill a gap), as well as in building on that which currently is in place (building on strength).

The work world has changed, and talent development leaders must step up, reassess, and innovate. Talent leaders have been debating the future of work for many years.

Tonya Harris Cornileus leads ESPNs efforts to attract, develop, and retain diverse talent at all levels. My fate was sealed at that point. I understood the sense of reward that a person can feel when youre helping someone develop and realize their goals, she says.

As automation and the pandemic have reduced some roles, companies are redeveloping employees skills to meet other business needs. Even though some industries like healthcare and online retail have maintained growth, one in five Americans has filed for unemployment benefits.

Michael Dorsey ensures that every Department of Human Services employee has the training they need to serve Maryland residents. It also provides preventive services that work to protect children and adults in each of Marylands 23 counties and Baltimore City.

How do they expect other leaders views of talent development to change? To answer those questions, in December 2019, the Association for Talent Development conducted an online poll of 116 talent development leaders.

The fast-casual restaurant infuses this mission in everything it does, and that is a driving element of its talent development initiatives. It really does capture what we stand for, which is this whole food culture and movement that Steve Ells, our founder, created, says Chief People Officer Marissa Andrada.