The Change Book: Change the Way You Think About Change

A practical, fun collection of tips, advice, and insights for anyone dealing with or managing organizational change.

Employee Development on a Shoestring

Developing motivated, competent employees is critical to the success of every organization. Employee Development on a Shoestring provides time-bound and budget-strapped managers with the implementation tools and techniques to develop their team members cost-effectively using organic opportunities found all around their workplace. With real-life examples, case studies, and hands-on worksheets and exercises, Employee Development on a Shoestring is a tremendous asset for everyone interested in developing highly competent, engaged, and skilled workers in a variety of creative and immediately available ways outside the training classroom and ‘outside the box’.

2011 State of the Industry Report (PDF Download)

The State of the Industry Report is ASTDs definitive review of workplace learning and development trends. This annual report includes organization benchmarking data from ASTD BEST Award winners, ASTD Forum members, and other organizations from 2002 to date.

Executive Development: Strategic and Tactical Approaches

Every organization faces an ongoing challenge to retain the talent needed to meet its goals... [PDF Download Version]

Developing Results: Aligning Learning’s Goals and Outcomes With Business Performance Measures WHITEPAPER

Developing Results is intended to examine the ways in which high- performing organizations approach the evaluation of learning and tie that measurement to overall business performance.

ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals

The definitive guide for learning professionals from the most trusted authority in the industry.

Learning to Innovate: Exploring Learning’s critical Role in Fostering Innovation Whitepaper (PDF download)

This Learning to Innovate research report will help any learning department or learning practitioner invigorate innovation across the organization.

The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management

Nineteen experts examine research-based theories and current practices in highly successful enterprises, and explain how you can adopt effective, state-of-the-art methods to integrate your talent management functions.

ASTD Competency Study: Mapping the Future

ASTD's powerful competency model provides a strategic roadmap for today's workplace learning and performance professionals.