TD

TD is the official magazine of the Association for Talent Development (ATD), which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping professionals enhance talent within their workplaces. This monthly publication is accessible to ATD members through their membership fees, and it can also be obtained via subscription or individual purchases. The magazine caters to a diverse audience of well-educated professionals involved in talent development and line management. These readers engage in various areas of learning and development, including training delivery, instructional design, talent management, coaching, performance enhancement, leadership training, organizational change, and informal learning methods. The readership includes both newcomers to the field and experienced leaders from sectors such as business, government, academia, consulting, and sales.

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How to Evaluate AI Voice Platforms

Jul 31, 2024 | td.org

WellSaid Labs is a developer of art text-to-speech technology that creates life-like synthetic voices, from the voices of real people.
Understanding Communication Practicalities to Achieve Workplace Goals

Jul 2, 2024 | td.org | John Hackston

None of us is an island. If we want to achieve our goals, whether inside or outside the workplace, we will need to involve other people, and that means communicating effectively with them. It’s wonderful when we have fantastic ideas or carefully formulated plans, but if we can’t communicate them to others then we won’t achieve our goals. For effective communication, we must first get the basics right and then understand our own and others' personality filters.
Future-Proof Your Workforce: The Essential Role of Leadership Development

Jun 27, 2024 | td.org | Stephanie Neal

Leaders who adapt, innovate, and inspire are crucial to your organization’s long-term success and inevitable future challenges. Investing in leadership development enhances the skills and competencies of your current and future leaders and creates a culture of learning and growth that fosters retention, innovation, and resilience. Ultimately, it’s all about ensuring your workforce is ready to navigate any challenges that may arise in the future. But how?
Being Successful Starts With Books

Jun 21, 2024 | td.org | Anne Duvaux

With the rise of digital media, reading books is in decline globally. And yet, research shows that reading books improves our memory. Reading also helps lower blood pressure and improves sleep, . In other words, reading books is enriching, instructive and meditative. So, why is it so hard to read? The Path to Success Is HardIn this world of instant gratification, we can quickly demotivate ourselves when it comes to long-term goals, including self-growth.
Are Chief Learning Officers Ready for Boardroom Conversations? | ATD

Jun 19, 2024 | td.org | MJ Hall

As learning professionals, we understand the value of learning and upskilling. We spend a lot of time improving our skills and the skills of our teams in topics related to learning and development—adult learning theories, instructional design and development, learning technologies, competency models, and more. However, we often forget the importance of preparing ourselves for our roles as strategic leaders within our organizations.
Maximize the Value of Learning Analytics

Jun 17, 2024 | td.org | Peggy Parskey

Peggy Parskey has more than 25 years of experience driving strategic change to improve organizational and individual performance. She focuses on team and organizational performance improvement leveraging performance measurement methods, management of change, and organizational design to ensure sustainable capability. Her firm, Parskey Consulting, focuses on culture, strategy, and change enablement.
Come Together | ATD

Jun 12, 2024 | td.org | Patty Gaul

Luke Hobson, senior instructional designer and program manager at MIT xPRO, writes about cohort learning: “This method is especially pertinent for adult learners. We, as educators, are always striving for our adult learners to become self-directed learners, and it makes sense with today’s day and age.
Need Consensus to Connect Performance and Learning? Make the Right Arguments

May 30, 2024 | td.org | Blake Proberts

Corporate learning and performance programs are failing their people. As a result, organizations are bogged down by their slowest link—smart people who could be operating at their full potential but aren’t. Without connected learning and performance programs, learners don’t know how to improve; leaders struggle to give meaningful feedback; and organizations waste time, energy, and resources on failed competency initiatives.
Just Because Learning Styles Is Intuitive, Doesn’t Make It True

May 29, 2024 | td.org | Julia Phelan

A common question I am asked when delivering workshops on applying learning science is “what’s the best way to teach someone [insert topic or skill]?” Or, “What is the best way to explain a particular topic or concept?” Let’s think about this. If I want to teach someone how to make a new kind of soufflé, what’s the best way to do it? It depends! I need to know things like: Does the person know how to cook at all? Do they want to know how to make this new kind of soufflé?
How to Create Your Leader Operating System

May 24, 2024 | td.org | Russ Hill

Every leader we’ve ever encountered is an amalgamation of their previous managers. They identify things they like in a leader and focus on developing those traits. The same is true on the flip side with things they did not like. When you ask a manager what makes a leader, they’ll likely spout off a list based on their experience. These things typically include trustworthiness, honesty, the ability to deliver results, approachability, and more.