With apologies to the late singer Aretha Franklin, the word “respect” has become somewhat of an outlier in today’s world. As we dig for “just a little bit” of the elusive R word, we are, more often than not, coming ...

This pandemic has forced companies to shift to remote work faster than they could prepare for it. Employers who already had a highly engaging and successful in-office culture are struggling to rebuild their virtual culture. Jenna Carson, HR manager at ...

Lifelong learning is the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for personal or professional reasons. Association for Talent Development (ATD) research finds that nearly 60 percent of high-performing organizations actively encourage their employees to be lifelong learners, and talent ...

During the last few years many organizations have focused on the modern learner and their desire for learning that is personalized for them (from a content perspective and delivery standpoint). This means what they need, when they need it, and ...

In a time of great disruption, it is easy to conclude that since everything has changed, all of our plans are outdated and maybe even useless. It can be tempting just to abandon our talent development strategy—or at the very ...

As a result of yet another police killing of an unarmed black man in the United States, perspectives have begun to shift. Hundreds of thousands have protested, demanding an end to police brutality. White citizens have been publicly shamed and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and civil unrest has affected nearly every person in different ways. Some workers experienced layoffs, pay reductions, remote working situations, or increased duties. Others may have loved ones who are sick or have passed away, while others ...

During difficult times, leadership and culture make or break a business. The pandemic has forced many businesses to begin operating remotely, and many of these businesses have never existed outside of a physical location before. There is a learning curve ...

“What gets measured gets done.” This expression means that if you don’t set metrics for what you want to accomplish and actually track and hold people accountable for them, nothing will happen. There will always be another priority. The number ...

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is highlighting the importance of continual learning in a fast-changing business environment with its new capability model. By shifting from competency to capability, the Talent Development Capability Model emphasizes the skills and knowledge talent ...

Michelle King is a leading global expert in gender and organizations and has been featured in the Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Times, Daily Mail, and LinkedIn Editors. She is the director of inclusion at Netflix and former ...

In 2012, I realized that employee engagement was a paradox. Like many other organizations, we were investing significant time, energy, and money to increase employee engagement yet engagement scores didn’t improve. How could the same smart people who doubled our ...

Today’s talent can be sourced worldwide. Digital connectivity has melted away geographic barriers, opening a borderless talent marketplace. Cultural fluency is a must for a successful workforce and the bedrock of that fluent workplace is emotionally intelligent workers. Well-honed interpersonal ...

Marykate and I rely upon a wide array of colleagues to bounce ideas to and to learn from. One of our friends is Nina Bianchi, the director of workforce solutions for the IT Modernization Centers of Excellence (CoE) with the ...

“The level of toxicity in the workplace is at an all-time high,” warns Johnny Taylor, president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Taylor’s organization recently set up a pop-up coffee house in the middle of the ...

Employee engagement is an organizational performance strategy. It’s also a highly personal equation—every person has a unique relationship with their work and employer. This is the reason increased engagement has eluded so many well-intentioned enterprises. You can’t fix low engagement ...

“We want to create a culture of feedback.” I hear this constantly from my clients and other leaders; however, I’m never certain that “culture of feedback” means the same thing to those who say it as it does to me ...

Global organizations are evolving and building their businesses in a fast-paced, high-velocity change environment. Cultural transformations within companies and marketplace challenges are accelerating daily, with leaders and employees expected to fully accept a world defined by “VUCA”—volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ...

The new ATD Capability Model identifies three domains of practice, each equally important within the scope of what talent development professionals need to know and do to be successful today and in the future. You can read more about the ...