Talent Management Practices and Opportunities

Talent management has become a top priority for organizations and will continue to increase in[PDF download]

ASTD Competency Study (PDF)

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

Coaching Up and Down the Generations (A Content Express eBook)

Get ingenious tips for creating formal and informal coaching situations, developing opportunities to build relationships, and helping people of all generations become catalytic coaches and engaged performers.

New Supervisor Training (PDF)

Develop critical management competencies with quick, comprehensive training for new, frontline managers.

Leadership Development for Millennials: Why It Matters (PDF)

This report seeks to examine how organizations are preparing the Millennial generation to manage and lead effectively now and into the future.

ASTD Learning System Module 1: Designing Learning

This is the first module in the ASTD Learning Systems 10-volume set.

Employee Development on a Shoestring (PDF e-book)

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’.

Tools for Effective Mentoring Programs (PDF Download)

Mentoring programs provide employees the opportunity to learn from experts to develop and grow. This Infoline will explain how to create a formal mentoring program in your organization.

90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance (PDF eBook)

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.