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Book SynopsisThe Talent Development Atlas Just Expanded…Exponentially
Staying ahead of change in the world, your organization, and your profession requires action. You learned a lot to launch your organization’s talent development effort. As you position it for the future, what you need to know grows exponentially.
As futurist Ray Kurzweil once said, “If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.” How do you prepare for exponential growth?
In
ATD’s Action Guide to Talent Development: A Practical Approach to Building Organizational Success, industry expert and bestselling author Elaine Biech lays out the steps you can take. The companion volume to
ATD’s Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and Leading Your Organization’s TD Effort, this book follows an eight-step framework for defining your organization’s learning foundation through preparing for the future. You are your organization’s trusted advisor, and Biech offers practical questions, organizational assessments, and tips for each step you must guide your organization through. She also presents the newest thinking from university educators and researchers that organizational experts have relied on for years, as well as from industry practitioners and luminaries in leadership and development.
Open this book to any page. Jump in where you think it will be most beneficial to you or your organization. Whether you work inside a company or as an external consultant, whether you work for a large organization or a small one, whether you are launching your first talent development effort or fine-tuning a function that’s been in action for decades—you are sure to find valuable concepts, designs, and ideas. Get started now. Take action.
Table of Contents
- I. Identify and Clarify the Organization’s Learning Foundation
- 1. Your Organization’s Learning Culture
- 2. Leaders Champion Learning
- 3. Employees Value Lifelong Learning
- 4. Everyone has a Learning Mindset
- 5. Clarifying Your Organization’s Readiness
- II. Develop a Talent Development Strategy
- 6. Build a Business Case for Learning
- 7. Enhance Your Organizational and Industry Savvy
- 8. Expand Talent Development’s Role
- 9. Partner with Business to Become Trusted Advisors
- III. Create an Operating Plan:
- 10. Align TD to the Organization’s Needs
- 11. Manage the TD Function Like a Business
- 12. Balance Services and Budget
- 13. Leverage Technology for Learning
- IV. Reinforce an Organizational Talent Development Mindset
- 14. Evolving Your Organization’s Learning Culture
- 15. How Your Organization Learns to Perform
- 16. Managers Develop their Employees
- 17. Employees are Accountable for Their Development
- 18. Talent Development Professionals are Consultants
- V. Design and Deliver Learning
- 19. Stay on the Cutting Edge of Contemporary Design and Delivery
- 20. Select the Most Effective Formal Learning
- 21. Support Learning from Others
- 22. Encourage Learning On-the-Job
- 23. Explore Other Services Provided by TD Professionals
- VI. Fortify the Learning
- 24. Empower Employees to Learn
- 25. Enable Social Learning
- 26. Coach Managers
- 27. Foster Persistent Self-Learning
- 28. Develop Your TD Staff
- VII. Define and Measure the Impact
- 29. Demonstrate Organizational Impact of TD
- 30. Identify Evaluation Methods
- 31. Start a Meaningful Evaluation Process
- 32. Plan for the Future of Evaluation
- VIII. Prepare for the Future
- 33. The Workplace of the Future
- 34. The Workforce of the Future
- 35. Talent Development Future Trends
- 36. Guiding Your Organization’s Future
- Appendix A. Worksheets and Checklists
- Appendix B Contributor Bios
- References
- Author Bio
- Index
