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The Definitive Resource for the Talent Development ProfessionThe TDBoK™ Guide: Talent Development Body of Knowledge, second edition, is a comprehensive collection of TD concepts, definitions, methodologies, and examples that lays the foundation and guiding principles for those who develop talent in the workplace. Created by the Association for Talent Development (ATD), this reference sets the gold standard for the learning and talent development profession. The first iteration of the TDBok was made available in 2020 through an ATD subscription product. ATD is delighted to present this updated and revised edition in book format. Grounded in and offering a deep dive of ATD's Talent Development Capability Model, the TDBoK Guide goes beyond the core foundational aspects of training and development and supports the approach that—to be most effective—TD professionals need to develop personal and professional capabilities to impact organizational capability. Covering the TD field's 23 key disciplines (or capability areas), the TDBoK Guide is divided into three sections that align with the Capability Model's three domains-personal, professional, and organizational. This second edition—developed by ATD in partnership with industry expert Elaine Biech—includes comprehensive updates based on feedback from the field, more than 100 subject matter expert contributors, and curated perspectives from thousands of publications. For those preparing to obtain certifications offered by ATD—ATD CI's certification programs, the Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD), or the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD)—the TDBoK Guide also serves as a helpful resource for exam preparation. ATD's TDBoK Guide is the differentiator for the field—a resource that every TD professional needs to grow in their careers, today and in the future.

Expand Your Knowledge of Organization Development to Enhance Your L&D EffortsATD's Organization Development Handbook is a tactical, hands-on book for those in learning and development looking to make that first step into organization development or those who are a one-person band doing both. While many books and textbooks exist on organization development—the effort to improve an organization's capability through the alignment of strategy, structure, people, rewards, metrics, and management processes—this volume is the first of its kind to address OD from the talent development and, specifically, L&D perspective.More than ever, L&D professionals are taking on organization development work to drive organizational effectiveness and performance. Sometimes this happens out of choice when seeking a new career challenge, and other times out of necessity when the organization adds OD to their responsibilities. In either case, L&D professionals need new knowledge and skills—as well as insight into how to utilize their analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation abilities—to become successful in creating OD solutions.Edited by OD practitioner and expert Brian J. Flores, this volume includes in-house experts and consultant contributors from the OD field itself as well as those who crossed over from L&D to OD. Readers will learn how to apply the foundations of organization development to their multiculturalism, upskilling and reskilling, soft skill development, and succession planning processes and programs.

Create a fresh, intentional approach to meetingsWhen meetings draw employees away from day-to-day tasks but fail to reach their intended outcome, it has huge costs to the organization. All too often, this happens because meetings lack purpose—people gather together to discuss a problem but don't know how to approach it strategically. Consider that the typical leader spends at least 10 hours a week in meetings with an average of five people. Now, assume each of those individuals is priced out at $100 an hour. That's $5,000 a week in meeting costs. Multiply that $5,000 by 50 weeks, then by the 10 top executives. The cost? $2.5 million. Of course, leaders dread the thought of one more ineffective meeting, as do most other workers.With preparation and intention, you can turn these wasted opportunities into sessions that fully engage participants and teams. In Not Just Another Meeting: Creative Strategies for Facilitation, you will learn how to be intentional about diagnosing what your team requires from a meeting. By expanding your repertoire of what to do and how to do it, you can respond to any situation with calm, certainty, and creativity.Experienced facilitators and consultants Rodney Napier and Eli Sharp describe 13 classic designs, such as the Future Search, Collapsing Consensus, and Genie in the Bottle. Applying to wide-ranging workplace issues, these designs provide the tools to enable any gathering to solve problems, build trust, and deal with conflict. Accompanying them are animated videos, available online, that allow you to observe exactly how to facilitate each design.This book shines a new light on situations you've taken for granted for years. Break out of your old meeting habits—and actually excite the participants of meetings you lead.

Learn the Secrets Needed to Master PowerPoint for TrainingAs a successful facilitator, you know the importance of the resources in your professional toolkit. How you engage your audience and improve learning can be affected by how well you use them. But mastery of PowerPoint evades many. Feedback on presentations can range from “What was the point?” to “That changed my life.” Most, though, fall closer to the former. If you are looking for a guide to the PowerPoint practices that will push your presentations into the latter category, look no further.A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. While Parkinson wants you to understand how amazing a tool PowerPoint is, he's the first to tell you that there is no magic button to make awesome slides. There are, however, proven processes and tools that deliver successful PowerPoint content each and every time you use them. In this book he shares them, detailing his award-winning PowerPoint process and guiding you through three phases of presentation development—discover, design, and deliver. What's more, Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP—most valuable professional—an honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with “very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services.” He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs. Parkinson invites you to master PowerPoint as a tool—just like a paintbrush and paint—and to realize that the tool doesn't make the art, you do.

Over the course of a decade, positive psychology authority Dr. Beth Cabrera has surveyed and interviewed more than a thousand women to gather insight into how to effectively balance career and family responsibilities. Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-Being gathers essential findings and offers women proven strategies for living more authentic, meaningful lives. Through the lens of shared experience, Cabrera thoughtfully examines the challenges women face and presents a simple yet powerful model for enhancing well-being that can both improve and transform lives. Helpful self-assessments guide you toward feeling good and doing good, and each chapter delivers tried-and-true tactics that real women have used to manage the difficulties of fulfilling their multiple, often conflicting, roles.Discover pathways to reducing stress, experiencing greater joy, and finding more meaning in your life by employing Cabrera's solid strategies for thriving based on personal values, developed strengths, and what matters most–enduring family ties and relationships.

There are no promises that a training session will be a success. In fact, there most certainly will be some friction between a trainer and a client. However, you can improve the chances for a positive interaction by ensuring that the expectations of your client and the training you plan are in alignment. Open communication and confirmation in writing will help both sides understand what is expected and what will be delivered. This Infoline will: explain how you as a trainer can approach the engagement with HEART—honesty, empathy, accountability, resiliency, and trustworthiness offer tips on handling the contracting process outline the advantages and disadvantages of various data collection methods provide guidance on how to achieve a successful intervention so that training recommendations are implemented.

In today's parlance, smartboard is the new chalkboard, and for the training and development profession, this new and completely revised 2nd edition of the ASTD Handbook is the absolute best and most credible resource for every training and development practitioner. Launching at the ASTD 2014 International Conference & Exposition, the ASTD Handbook covers everything practitioners need to know about the training profession.

Coaching skills are becoming critical management competencies as organizations prepare a new generation of leaders, using fewer financial, human, and training resources. Employees at all levels can derive value from personalized, skilled help delivered in a structured, safe, one-on-one situation. This book is for everyone who wants to initiate a formal coaching process with their employees, and who wants to infuse their day-to-day interactions in the workplace with a powerful new skill—development through coaching. The book also is for readers who understand that applying these skills will help them in their broader lives.

Authoritative, complete, and current, the ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals is an easy-to-use, must-have reference tool for all learning professionals. This'go to'resource and reference guide, edited by Elaine Biech, is packed full of key methodologies, practices, and procedures on every topic including training design and delivery, analyzing needs, measurement and evaluation, e-learning, organization development, managing the learning function, and human performance improvement. The ASTD Handbook brings together authors who represent the best practitioners in the field, authorities to present the most critical information to professionals. Contributors include Bill Wiggenhorn, Geary Rummler, Robert Mager, Bill Byham, Elliot Masie, Donald Kirkpatrick, John Cone, Donnee Ramelli, Tony Bingham, and other industry leaders. Included in this volume are a complete glossary and a CD-ROM with supporting worksheets and tools.

Ever wish you had your own personal career and life coach, giving you advice and cheering you on? Now you do!Jim Smith Jr.'s energy and enthusiasm are contagious. Catch them—and enjoy your own journey From Average to Awesome.Start reading at any point because, like success, getting to awesome is not a linear step-by-step process. Dozens of uplifting, true-life stories tell how others have catapulted themselves from mediocrity to stellar achievement—despite long odds. Each chapter ends with a self-quiz to help you reflect upon your own situation, rate your level of awesomeness, and move forward.

Do You Want to Make Better Use of Your Organizational Resources and Create More Relevant, More Effective Training? The emergence of the knowledge economy has brought new challenges to most organizations. To succeed, organizations have to respond quickly to this continuum of change. Off-the-job training requires a sizeable investment in organizational resources with sometimes questionable outcomes. This book, Implementing On-the-Job Learning, will illustrate how other companies have used and implemented a particular approach to facilitating employee learning in organizations—structured on-the-job learning. Structured on-the-job learning programs have the potential to make better use of your organization's resources and create training that is more relevant and effective. This casebook should interest anyone involved in human resource development, especially those who make decisions regarding the design and delivery of training programs. The primary audience is practitioners who want to implement on-the-job training programs but have been frustrated in their attempts to find solid, real-life examples. Instructors, students in university and seminar settings, and researchers will also find this book to be a useful reference. Another audience is organization managers who want to make sure that trainers are adequately informed about potential training options. No matter how you plan to use this book, you will find it a valuable tool as you decide how to best meet the training, development, and performance goals of your organization. ASTD is proud to present the 27th book in the IN ACTION Series offering 13 case studies from a variety of organizations. The case study authors are diligently pursuing accountability in their areas of expertise. Through their writing, they share experiences at the forefront of applying leading-edge principles of on-the-job learning.