The Public Manager

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

Needs Assessment for Organizational Success

This book offers a pragmatic, evidence-based approach for justifying results and proving success while serving individuals, your organization, and society.

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’.

Salary & Compensation-Whitepaper: ASTD's Learning and Development Industry Report 2011

This whitepaper is based on ASTDs Learning and Development Industry Salary and Compensation Report, 2011, which contains the findings of the 2011 learning and development salary and compensation survey.

Needs Assessment for Organizational Success (PDF)

This book offers a pragmatic, evidence-based approach for justifying results and proving success while serving individuals, your organization, and society.

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.

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.

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.

Mobile Learning: Learning in the Palm of Your Hand Whitepaper (Pdf)

Mobile Learning: Learning in the Palm of Your Hand Whitepaper is a summary of the full report of the same name and summarizes the state of mobile learning today and expectations for the future.