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Book Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent Development

Download or read book Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent Development written by Alec Levenson and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talent development is not just about supporting individuals. Both the individual and organizational aspects of talent must come together for companies to meet strategic goals and achieve organizational effectiveness. In “Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent Development,” Alec Levenson explains how a systems approach can increase the impact of talent development efforts. When leaders measure talent across the organization, they can eliminate the gaps between where the organization is and where it ought to be. In this issue of TD at Work, you will find: · a definition of the systems approach to talent development · a model for moving beyond measuring individual performance · advice for prioritizing talent development challenges · examples of how to take a systems approach to traditional talent development activities.

Book Reinventing Talent Management

Download or read book Reinventing Talent Management written by William A. Schiemann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Reinventing Talent Management "Bill Schiemann's book is a comprehensive presentation of the need to better understand, measure, and increase organizational people equity. It clearly transforms concepts that have historically been considered less tangible into actionable imperatives. Today more than ever, it's essential that leadership maximizes alignment, capabilities, and engagement within their organizations." —Paul Schultz, President and COO, Jack in the Box Inc. "Reinventing Talent Management has arrived just in time. Given the challenging times we face today, recruiting and retaining the very best people is now more important than ever. Bill has developed a unique innovative framework on how to do this, as well as provided a broad array of practical approaches to putting the theory into action." —Keith Lawrence, Director, Human Resources, Procter & Gamble "Reinventing Talent Management is an outstanding blend of research and practice. It reports compelling research on the value of investing in talent and offers specific recommendations on how to develop people equity through alignment, capabilities, and engagement. The book confirms what good people managers do and offers specific guidelines for those wanting to upgrade their people management skills." —Dave Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group "Bill makes the case for reinventing talent management and tells us how to do it. The book is loaded with good examples and must-take actions that lead to a winning talent management strategy." —Edward E. Lawler III, founder and Director, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and author of Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage "Talent management certainly needs to be reinvented-this book does it! Read, learn, redo!" —Dr. Richard Beatty, Professor of Human Resource Management, Rutgers University "Reinventing Talent Management provides an accessible framework that offers pragmatic ways to better understand how investments in human capital and talent can be measured and linked to financial returns." —Dr. John Boudreau, Professor and Research Director, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Book The Routledge Companion to Talent Management

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Talent Management written by Ibraiz Tarique and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of Talent Management has grown and advanced exponentially over the past several years as organizations, large and small, public and private, global and domestic, have realized that to gain and sustain a global competitive advantage, they must manage their talents effectively. Talent Management has become a major theoretical and empirical topic of intellectual curiosity from various disciplinary perspectives, such as human resource management, arts and entertainment management, international management, etc. This Companion is an indispensable source that provides an authoritative, in-depth, and comprehensive examination of emerging Talent Management topics. Divided into five thematic sections that provide a unique overarching structure to organize forty-one chapters written by leading and renowned international scholars, this Companion assesses essential knowledge, trends, debates, and avenues for future research in a single volume: Evolution and Conceptualization of Talent Management; The External Context of Talent Management; The Internal Context of Talent Management; Individuals, Workforce, and Processes of Talent Management; and Outcomes of Talent Management. In this way, the Companion is essential reading for anyone involved in the scholarly study of Talent Management, including academic researchers, advanced postgraduate and graduate students, and management consultants. For further debate on Talent Management, readers might be interested in the supplementary volume Contemporary Talent Management: A Research Companion, sold separately.

Book Measurement Demystified

Download or read book Measurement Demystified written by David Vance and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Groundbreaking Framework for Measurement and Reporting Most people find measurement, analytics, and reporting daunting—and L&D professionals are no different. As these practices have become critically important for organizations’ efforts to improve performance, talent development professionals have often been slow to embrace them for many reasons, including the seeming complexity and challenge of the practices. Few organizations have a well-thought-out measurement and reporting strategy, and there are often scant resources, limited time, and imperfect data to work with when organizations do attempt to create one. Measurement Demystified: Creating Your L&D Measurement, Analytics, and Reporting Strategy is a much-needed and welcomed resource that breaks new ground with a framework to simplify the discussion of measurement, analytics, and reporting as it relates to L&D and talent development practitioners. This book helps practitioners select and use the right measures for the right reasons; select, create, and use the right types of reports; and create a comprehensive measurement and reporting strategy. Recognizing the angst and reluctance people often show in these areas, authors and experts David Vance and Peggy Parskey break down the practices and processes by providing a common language and an easy-to-use structure. They describe five types of reports, four broad reasons to measure, and three categories of measures. Their method works for large and small organizations, even if yours is an L&D staff of one or two. The guidance remains the same: Start small and grow. Measurement Demystified is a great first book for talent development professionals with no prior knowledge of or experience with measurement and a valuable resource for measurement experts. Those adept at lower levels of training evaluation will grow their knowledge base and capabilities, while measurement experts will discover shortcuts and nuggets of information to enhance their practices. A more comprehensive treatment of these important topics will not be found elsewhere.

Book ROI Basics  2nd Edition

Download or read book ROI Basics 2nd Edition written by Patricia Pulliam Phillips and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your essential guide to calculating return on investment. Build and refine your measurement and evaluation skills through ROI Basics, perfect for beginners challenged to implement a comprehensive evaluation process as well as those taking a proactive approach to accountability. Its five-level evaluation framework includes: Level 1: Reaction and Planned Action Level 2: Learning Level 3: Application and Implementation Level 4: Impact Level 5: Return on Investment ROI Basics provides a baseline exploration of ROI for the talent development function and the steps to successful evaluation: evaluation planning, data collection, data analysis, and results optimization. In this second edition, experts Patti and Jack Phillips go deeper into aligning programs to the business, detecting payoff needs, and identifying specific business measures that need to improve. They explore how the process applies beyond training to talent development and suggest how new technologies can influence ROI adoption and implementation in your organization. This updated book offers a review of two essential—and often overlooked—steps in the ROI process: isolating program impact and sustaining momentum.

Book ATD s Action Guide to Talent Development

Download or read book ATD s Action Guide to Talent Development written by Elaine Biech and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Started Now. Take Action. Staying ahead of change in the world, your organization, and your profession requires action. You learned a lot to launch your organization’s talent development effort. As you position it for the future, what you need to know grows exponentially. As futurist Ray Kurzweil once said, “If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.” How do you prepare for exponential growth? In ATD’s Action Guide to Talent Development: A Practical Approach to Building Organizational Success, industry expert and bestselling author Elaine Biech lays out the steps you can take. The companion volume to ATD’s Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and Leading Your Organization’s TD Effort, this book follows an eight-step framework for defining your organization’s learning foundation through preparing for the future. You are your organization’s trusted advisor, and Biech offers practical questions, organizational assessments, and tips for each step you must guide your organization through. She also presents the newest thinking from university educators and researchers that organizational experts have relied on for years, as well as from industry practitioners and luminaries in leadership and development. Open this book to any page. Jump in where you think it will be most beneficial to you or your organization. Whether you work inside a company or as an external consultant, whether you work for a large organization or a small one, whether you are launching your first talent development effort or fine-tuning a function that’s been in action for decades—you are sure to find valuable concepts, designs, and ideas. Get started now. Take action.

Book Measuring and Addressing Talent Gaps Globally

Download or read book Measuring and Addressing Talent Gaps Globally written by Rothwell, William J and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global corporate mindset has become increasingly critical in today’s business environment. Yet managers and workers who have little or no exposure to other cultures may have a difficult time acknowledging that a talent development strategy with a global perspective is essential to their success. When considering global talent gaps, it becomes imperative that an organization employ objective, universal methods to measure and address those gaps. In this TD at Work, you will: • Explore the need to think about talent gaps in a global context. • Examine strategies that can define talent gaps in your global workforce. • Identify strategies to assess and close negative gaps and leverage positive gaps.

Book The Executive Guide to High Impact Talent Management  Powerful Tools for Leveraging a Changing Workforce

Download or read book The Executive Guide to High Impact Talent Management Powerful Tools for Leveraging a Changing Workforce written by David DeLong and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies show that in the next few years many companies could have only about half the leaders and skilled workers they need--and that these talent shortages will be particularly acute in the critical sectors like engineering, health care, energy, government, manufacturing, and aerospace and defense. As a line executive you need to ask yourself one question: Do we havewho it takes to drive business performance inthe future? In The Executive Guide to High-Impact TalentManagement, David DeLong and Steve Trautman combine wide-ranging research and real-world expertise to chart a clear and efficient path for senior leaders. They show how to not only reduce the risks of talent shortages but also maximize the payoff of workforce and leadership developmentinvestments. Sharing their findings based on more than 70 interviews with senior executives and top-rated talent experts and their own experience as leaders and consultants, DeLong and Trautman show you how to: Accurately diagnose talent-related risks that threaten performance Efficiently evaluate and measure workforce and leadership investments Ensure your staff is aligning talent processes to support business strategy Accelerate leadership development and the transfer of critical knowledge Communicate cultural principles that will drive recruiting, development, and retention programs Assess the talent management IQ of your leadership team The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management shows leaders how to translate their belief in the importance of investing in people into concrete actions that will improve business performance. Most important, it shows you how to get started today! Praise for The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management: "Most executives I know are far more comfortable running the financial or operational or product sides of their business. This book does an excellent job clarifying every leader's real role in developing talent to grow their business." -- John Rex, CFO, Microsoft North America "DeLong and Trautman have attacked the issue of managing talent and developing leaders in a manner that is systemic, grounded, insightful, and incredibly helpful for a CEO like me and for our entire senior management team." -- Peter Metca lf, CEO, Black Diamond Equipment "The authors' practical approaches to prioritizing risk and implementing creative talent solutions can help you maximize the payoff of these investments." -- Annmarie Nea l, Vice President, Cisco Center for Collaborative Leadership, Cisco Systems "DeLong and Trautman show leaders how to compete and win at the increasingly high-stakes game of talent management." -- Joseph W. Wilczek, CEO, Franciscan Health System "This book is full of practical insights that will make you a more effective leader today." -- Hy Pomerance, Chief Talent Officer, New York Life Insurance Company

Book Starting a Talent Development Program

Download or read book Starting a Talent Development Program written by Elaine Biech and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundational guidance you’ve been looking for The best organizations recognize that no leader or employee can be expert in everything, but that everyone needs to be at their best if organizations are to be productive and successful. If your goal is to develop talent within your organization, this concise yet foundational book has the keys to success. Renowned industry leader and bestselling author Elaine Biech guides you through getting started, designing and implementing your talent development program, demonstrating success, and planning next steps. But just as important, she poses critical questions that only you and your organization can answer. Biech interweaves best practices with the latest technology to offer many templates, tools, worksheets, and tips to help you explore how to support your organization into the future. Starting a Talent Development Program is part of a new ATD series, What Works in Talent Development, which addresses the most critical topics facing today’s talent development practitioners. Each book in the series is written for trainers, by trainers, and offers an examination of core subject matter and a defined way to solve real issues.

Book ATD   s Foundations of Talent Development

Download or read book ATD s Foundations of Talent Development written by Elaine Biech and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Talent Development Atlas If you’ve been directing your organization’s talent development effort during the last few years, you might think you’re on a journey without a map. There are few published resources to guide you in a challenge that many experts promise will only become more urgent, and necessary, in the coming years. Elaine Biech, a legendary leader in training and development, understands the road ahead and has partnered with ATD to present a new book that will point the way—ATD’s Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and Leading Your Organization's TD Effort. Biech imbues this comprehensive volume with the energy and passion she has manifested in a career spanning more than three decades. In her hands, you have a trusted adviser who provides guidance, leadership, and direction to your organization. Biech painstakingly guides you over 36 chapters—taking you from developing your talent development strategy, creating an operating plan, and reinforcing your organization’s talent development mindset, through design and delivery, measurement and evaluation, and preparing for the future. No matter where you are in your development, you will be able to pick up this book and select chapters that describe how you can help your organization. What’s more, Biech has included a new customized model to assist you. Plus, she’s invited dozens of her friends and colleagues to contribute—well-known authors, ATD subject matter experts, and icons in the field—to present a cross-section of voices and approaches in the field. In 2018, ATD celebrates its 75th anniversary by delivering ATD’s Foundations of Talent Development, its first published reference to the profession it leads and supports. Think of this book as your professional atlas. Table of Contents: I. Identify and Clarify the Organization’s Learning Foundation 1. Your Organization’s Learning Culture 2. Leaders Champion Learning 3. Employees Value Learning 4. Everyone has a Learning Mindset 5. Clarifying Your Organization’s Readiness II. Develop a Talent Development Strategy 6. Build A Business Case for Learning 7. Enhance Your Organizational and Industry Savvy 8. Expand Talent Development’s Purpose 9. Partner with Business to Become Trusted Advisors III. Create an Operating Plan: 10. Align TD to the Organization’s Needs 11. Manage the TD Function 12. Balance Services and Budget 13. Leveraging Technology for Learning IV. Reinforce an Organizational Talent Development Mindset 14. Maturing Your Organization’s Learning Culture 15. How Your Organization Learns to Perform 16. Managers Develop their Employees 17. Employees are Accountable for Their Development 18. Talent Development Professionals are Consultants V. Design and Deliver Learning 19. Formal Learning 20. Learning from Others 21. On-the-Job Learning 22. Contemporary Content 23. Services Provided by TD Professionals VI. Fortifying the Learning 24. Enable Social Learning 25. Empower Employees 26. Coach Managers 27. Foster Continual Self-Learning 28. Develop TD Staff VII. Define and Measure the Impact 29. Determine and Demonstrate Organizational Impact 30. Evaluation Methods 31. Getting Started with Evaluation 32. The Future of Evaluation VIII. Prepare for the Future 33. The Workplace of the Future 34. The Workforce of the Future 35. Talent Development Future Trends 36. Guiding Your Organization’s Future

Book Measurement Demystified Field Guide

Download or read book Measurement Demystified Field Guide written by David Vance and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bridge to Your L&D Measurement and Reporting Strategy Building measurement skills is critical for talent development professionals who seek to align their L&D programs to business outcomes for organizational success. Designed to improve your measurement capability and advance the measurement maturity of your organization, the Measurement Demystified Field Guide presents a refresher on the talent development reporting principles framework and measurement strategy. While the Field Guide serves as a standalone volume, it is also a companion to the authors’ first book, Measurement Demystified. In an easy-to-use workbook style, the Field Guide provides nearly 100 skill-building exercises of varying types to help you uncover what measurement work your organization is doing; assess organizational maturity and gaps; understand how to apply specific concepts; and determine what’s right for your organization moving forward. It also offers interview questions to better understand users’ wants and needs; case study exercises to test your knowledge gaps; and reflection questions that focus on your deepening knowledge and skill. You can write your answers in the book or use the resource on ATD’s website. Achieving measurement maturity is a change effort requiring commitment and discipline. Understanding your current capabilities and gaps is an essential first step followed by determining where your organization wants to go in this area. Once both are achieved, you will be able to develop your desired measurement and reporting strategy—the bridge between where you are today and where you aspire to be. The Measurement Demystified Field Guide is that bridge.

Book Strategy Driven Talent Management

Download or read book Strategy Driven Talent Management written by Rob Silzer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations today understand that superior talent can create competitive business advantage. Executives are working with human resource managers and talent professionals to significantly improve their organization's ability to attract, develop, deploy, and retain the talent needed to achieve the organization's strategies. Effective CEOs and senior leaders are realizing that strong talent resources are as critical to business success as financial resources. This book in the SIOP Professional Practice Series provides an up-to-date review and summary of current and leading-edge talent management practices in organizations. A comprehensive book, Strategy-Driven Talent Management brings together an outstanding group of leading practitioners who present state-of-the-art ideas, best practices, and guidance on how to recruit, select, assimilate, develop, and retain exceptional talent and integrate talent management efforts with organizational strategy. Written for human resource professionals, industrial-organizational psychologists, and corporate executives, this key resource is a clear must-read guide to the emerging field of strategic talent management. Strategy-Driven Talent Management shows how to build competitive advantage through an integrated and strategic talent management program summarizes what it takes to attract, develop, deploy, and retain the best talent for the strategic needs of an organization reviews critical issues such as managing talent in global organizations and measuring the effectiveness of talent management programs includes case examples and CEO interviews from leading-edge companies such as PepsiCo, Microsoft, Home Depot, Cargill, and Allstate, which reveal how each of these organizations drives talent management with their business strategies This essential must-have HR resource offers insight into the future of strategic talent management, an extensive annotated bibliography and suggestions for preparing the next generation of organizational leaders.

Book TALENT MANAGEMENT  Process of Developing and Integrating Skilled Workers

Download or read book TALENT MANAGEMENT Process of Developing and Integrating Skilled Workers written by Ravinder Shukla and published by Global India Publications. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Talent Management book explains how organizations can identify and get the most out of high-potential people by developing and promoting them to key positions. The book explains a system for integrating human resources building blocks and human resources conditions neccessary for organization excellence and how to link employee assessment process to career planning and development. It is full of simple, efficient, easy-to-follow methods for assessing, planning and developing high-value people to meet your organization's current and future needs. And it will help combine organization's diverse human resorces activities into a single, cogent system.

Book Learning Analytics

Download or read book Learning Analytics written by Cristina Hall and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective evaluation and measurement of learning and development initiatives is critical to maximise the impact of training, identify gaps for improvement and ensure that efforts are aligned to the business' needs. Learning Analytics outlines how analytical approaches can respond to these challenges, the types and benefits of technological solutions and how to ask the right questions of organizational data in order to build a learning organization that boosts performance and competitive advantage. Drawing upon case studies from organizations who have applied such approaches such as The Gap, Hilton Worldwide University and Seagate Technology, Learning Analytics will enable those involved in learning and development to make the business case for their activities and deliver an evidence-based service to their organizations. Alongside updated chapters on learning technology tools and moving beyond learning analytics to talent management analytics, this second edition also features new content on measuring informal learning, increasing data literacy, and framing L&D's contributions through a portfolio evaluation approach.

Book Measuring the Impact of Training and Development on the Bottom Line

Download or read book Measuring the Impact of Training and Development on the Bottom Line written by Paul Kearns and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading HR authorities Paul Kearns and Tony Miller - firm believers of the principal 'if you cannot measure it you cannot manage it' - this essential briefing provides you with a practical model you can use, specific tools and techniques, plus invaluable case studies showing tools in use. So you learn to use and begin to measure the effectiveness of your organisation's training and development. Contents include: Getting the basics right A significant breakthrough in evaluation models The changing business case for investing in training and development Reasons for getting evaluation right Business focused training and development Learning and self-development Training Needs Analysis (TNA) Choosing an evaluation model Soft and hard measures Placing evaluation in an national and international context

Book Managing and Measuring Employee Performance

Download or read book Managing and Measuring Employee Performance written by Elizabeth Houldsworth and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As performance management becomes better integrated into businesses, attitudes and approaches to it are evolving. Through case studies and detailed practice examples from leading international organizations, this text addresses the increasing demand for managers in all sectors to manage and measure staff performance.

Book ATD Talent Management Handbook

Download or read book ATD Talent Management Handbook written by Terry Bickham and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you need to know to manage a workforce. The complex and ever-changing nature of today’s—and tomorrow’s—workforce demands that all involved in talent management rethink how to attract, engage, and grow future talent. This forward-looking handbook captures talent management’s evolution from a series of transactions to a fluid process that includes talent development. With 20-plus chapters written by more than 30 contributors, the ATD Talent Management Handbook challenges you to think about the talent model of the future through the lens of different workforce models. It offers progressive thoughts on the current state of talent management and on how the function needs to adapt. Leaders, practitioners, and consultants alike will find useful insights and answers to relevant talent management challenges. Edited by learning and development authority Terry Bickham, this handbook covers the entire talent management cycle, from talent acquisition and engagement to leadership development and succession planning. ATD’s first handbook on talent management, this book includes a foreword by ATD President and CEO Tony Bingham, highlighting the foundational components of talent development and its role within talent management.