The Public Manager

The Public Manager is ASTDs journal offering practical tools and solutions for critical public management issues.

The Self-Aware Leader: A Proven Model for Reinventing Yourself

The Self-Aware Leader is a unique approach on how to become a more effective leader by increasing self-awareness in four pillars of leadership. By integrating the concepts of reinvention, servant leadership, and business transformation into a single framework that has been validated in research, The Self-Aware Leader emphasizes taking a calculated approach to change rather than merely reacting to change.

ASTD Competency Study: The Training & Development Profession Redefined

ASTD Competency Study introduces the new ASTD Competency Model and serves as an essential guide to the future of the profession.

Leadership Development for Millennials Whitepaper

This whitepaper is an abbreviated version of the full report, which seeks to examine how organizations are preparing the Millennial generation to manage and lead effectively now and into the future.

Executive Development: Strategic and Tactical Approaches

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

90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance

Are you responsible for bringing recently-hired employees on board and up to speed within your organization? If you are a manager, trainer, corporate coach, or human resources executive in charge of developing the new hires in your company, 90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance provides you with the knowledge and tools required to grow these recruits into engaged, confident team members during the course of the standard three-month probationary period. With a strong focus on working with younger professionals, 90 Days 90 Ways offers specific, actionable strategies and corresponding techniques for ensuring that the new hires under your guidance are integrated quickly, completely, and successfully into your business.

The Impact of Leadership Development Programs: Executive Summary

A free executive summary of ASTD/ICFs The Impact of Leadership Development Programs that provides executives with meaningful insight into how they can measure the effectiveness and value of their leadership development programs with organizational success.

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.

Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company’s Best and Brightest

Use your experienced leaders today to develop the new, exceptional leaders of tomorrow.