Your essential guide to designing successful training programs.If you’re an experienced trainer, training manager, content designer, or curriculum developer, Technical Training Basics will help...

ASTD's powerful new online tool, the WLP Scorecard, allows practitioners to directly link their initiatives and programs to organizational strategy, financial goals, and a range of other key...

This facilitator's guide is a companion piece to 10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager and provides individuals involved with training new managers with an instant success tool. Applying the factors...

Use the methodology presented here for assessing whether classroom training will have the desired outcome and whether there will be a high probability of learning. This issue gives you...

This publication unlocks the keys to finding and accessing public sector tools and grants that help training practitioners further their experience and skills. Included in this issue as well are...

Overcome Your Fear of PresentingAre you afraid of public speaking? Do you feel anxious before presenting? Are you worried about making mistakes in front of others and being judged? If so, you are...

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...

Every quota challenge has a story.Sales quotas aren’t all about the numbers.Quotas! Using Design Thinking to Solve Your Biggest Sales Challenge sheds new light on quota challenges, the story...

What’s your story?The most successful brands aren’t created, they are unearthed. Successful branding is based on authenticity. So how do you reveal your own brand? First, by searching...

When times are tight, training is one of the first functions to go. Typically, the authors argue, this happens because learning officers do not communicate as they should with the executives who...

Loaded with worksheets, exercises, tips, tools, checklists, and other easy-to-use and interactive learning aids, this book walks you through the process from beginning to end. Along the way, you...

Manage Virtual Teams for Maximum ResultsWorking remotely is a reality of today’s and tomorrow’s workforce. With organizations switching from a model of only on-site employees to on-site...

Your Microlearning PrimerMicrolearning. Is it a text message or a video? Does it need to be shorter than five minutes? Do you just “chunk” a longer course into smaller pieces? Find the answers...

Discover Agile for Better Instructional DesignTo serve business needs amid greater volatility and uncertainty in the workplace, learning and development professionals need project management...

Instructional design is a system that is dynamic enough to work with any set of variables regardless of the particulars. This book provides both novice and experienced instructional designers...

Meetings are often poorly planned and executed events that produce no meaningful business results. How to Conduct Productive Meetings is a book designed to provide practical tools and advice...

One of the most reliable tools to begin building an effective learning environment is through the use of classroom games. This book provides practical, step-by-step advice on how to select just...

Reach New Heights as a MentorBroaden people’s perspectives. Sustain momentum for development. Drive significant career growth. It doesn’t take a workplace superhero to accomplish all of this....

There’s always room for improvement.It’s tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together...

A Better Kind of Compliance TrainingCompliance training succeeds when you balance the needs of not just the organization but also the employees who you hope will learn and change their behavior. ...