Böcker utgivna av American Society for Training & Development

ATD's Organization Development Handbook is a tactical, hands-on book for those in learning and development (L&D) looking to make that first step into organization development or those who are a one-person band doing both.

Ignite Online Events and Virtual Training with the Use of Well-Designed and Facilitated ActivitiesCreating outstanding virtual meetings, webinars, and training programs has always been challenging for novice and experienced instructional designers and facilitators alike. Virtual learning experts Kassy LaBorie and Tom Stone understand that the need to interact and engage is more important than ever, as online collaboration becomes the norm rather than the exception.In this new, updated edition of Interact and Engage!, the authors offer more than 75 activities as well as tips and strategies to help you create effective online learning and masterful meetings and webinars. Activities range from warmups and icebreakers to closers and celebrations, and everything in between. LaBorie and Stone cover advanced features and techniques and guide you on how to convert or create your own online activities, no matter what technology you are using now or in the future. An appendix presents two capability models for the positions of virtual facilitator and producer.

Improve the Impact of Your FacilitationFacilitation is about mastering how to deliver an engaging learning experience, all in the effort of improving workplace performance. It¿s also about developing your unique approach and building confidence in it so you can achieve your facilitation goals. In Facilitation in Action, four master ATD facilitators open your eyes to the range of facilitation methods and techniques and help you find your authentic training style.Authors Carrie Addington, Jared Douglas, Nikki O¿Keeffe, and Darryl Wyles provide tips, lessons, and stories rooted in hands-on application, from experiences leading ATD¿s education programs and delivering training in industries from government and healthcare to marketing and beauty. Learn how to develop a facilitation mindset that identifies what learners need to be successful before, during, and after training. Explore how to adapt your facilitation across various modalities and how to be prepared when you must pivot in the moment. And, dive into the importance of empathy, inclusion, feedback, and performance to facilitation.This guide takes both new and established facilitators on a journey of honing training delivery skills, and demonstrating agility for the benefit of the learners, the organization, and themselves. The chapters are structured around actual questions the authors have received over the years from learners in ATD Education¿s train-the-trainer sessions. Each chapter concludes with invitations and moments of reflection for the reader as they consider their own development as a facilitator.

Elevate Your Work and Relationships Through Conscious AccountabilityResults and relationships¿managers and leaders no longer have to prioritize one over the other to build a culture of exceptional accountability. You don¿t have to choose between being the hard-charging task master and being the easy-going people pleaser. By expanding your awareness to create deliberate intentions, take informed actions, and be responsible for your impact, you can achieve better business outcomes and experience greater satisfaction in doing so.In Conscious Accountability, Yale professors, psychologists, and leadership consultants David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon, and Daryn H. David invite you to think about yourself and your working relationships more completely and integrate a practice of conscious accountability in your daily life. A forward-thinking approach to realizing organizational and team goals, conscious accountability can help you move beyond traditional ways of engaging with your employees, team members, and peers. The impact will be transformative.To help you develop the skills and the mindsets of conscious accountability, this book introduces a straightforward and powerful CONNECT framework that gives you the tools you need to better relate to everyone in your professional (and personal) life, build trust, and motivate yourself and your colleagues for greater outcomes. Step up your game by following the seven practices of conscious accountability¿creating clarity, opening up engagement, nailing it, noticing, exchanging feedback, claiming it, and trying again. You will connect more closely to others, put people in a position to succeed, elevate and distinguish yourself, and generate excellence everywhere you turn.

Communication skills are critical in the workplace. One less-frequently-discussed skill is the ability to persuade others. In this issue of TD at Work, Grace Torre details how to improve your persuasion skills and consider actions in the longer term to influence others.

Start, Build, and Navigate Your Training and TD CareerATD¿s Handbook for Training and Talent Development is the premier resource and compendium of everything a training and talent development (TD) professional needs to know to start, build, and navigate a thriving career. Now in its third edition and grounded by the Talent Development Capability Model, this is more than a revised volume. This edition offers an up-to-date view of the growing roles of talent development professionals, our changing world of work, and the critical need for business alignment. Edited by Elaine Biech, the third edition is divided into eight sections comprising 57 chapters authored by 100 expert practitioners¿the brightest thinkers in the field¿who share foundational and advanced perspectives and information. The Handbook dives deeply into growing professional expertise and personal skills, virtual learning and remote work, trends affecting TD, managing organizational and career change, growing roles in TD, and understanding organizational impact and business alignment. Fifty online tools are available to download, and there is also a glossary and references.TD professionals, keep this practical, companionable volume close by; it¿s the reference you will always turn to.

Surpass the Basics of Virtual TrainingAs virtual training continues as a go-to, effective learning option, and platform providers improve functionality, trainers and facilitators need to take their skills to the next level. Written by expert facilitator Diana L. Howles, this book goes beyond the basics of virtual training and online synchronous instruction, providing in-depth insights into advanced challenges. Next Level Virtual Training introduces the Virtual Trainer Capability Model, which identifies eight areas of expertise for the top virtual professional. A train-the-virtual-trainer resource, this book will guide you developing the specific knowledge and skills to facilitate online interactivity, manage multitasking, be technically fluent, oversee logistics and troubleshooting, leverage your voice, and engage virtual learners. Importantly, this book is about actionable tips, strategies, and techniques rather than the technologies. Inside yoüll find comprehensive chapters on developing on-camera competence; applying learning experience design to live online learning; and preparing for the combination of onsite and online learners together in a post-pandemic hybrid work environment.Whether you are a virtual trainer, a live online facilitator, a synchronous educator, an online adult education instructor, this book is for you. It is also for designers, developers, evaluators, and producers of virtual learning.

How do you increase the learning transfer rate and ensure your efforts don't go to waste? In this issue of TD at Work, Fergal Connolly pinpoints how L&D is often unsuccessful in influencing learning and post-training behaviour, and illustrates the various influences on learning transfer.

For many TD professionals, the thought of launching a new department is incredibly exciting, but the excitement of leading the endeavour can diminish if you are not constantly refocusing on the big picture and celebrating victories. In this issue of TD at Work, David Macon, CPTD, provides strategies for successfully establishing a TD department.

Part of the ATD Soft Skills Series, Creativity in Talent Development offers a purposeful and practical way to become more creative. Creativity and innovation experts Donna Porter and Nancy Tennant guide you through a creativity journey and development process to help you rediscover your curiosity and grow your abilities.

Develop Your Teamwork SkillsTeamwork allows us to engage in important work, and teams hold immense power. Those on teams share perspectives, brainstorm ideas, and produce results beyond what¿s possible alone. With organizations relying increasingly on teams to deliver impact, teamwork skills are needed more than ever.Part of the ATD Soft Skills Series, Teamwork in Talent Development is for talent development professionals who serve as team leaders or team members and wish to improve their collaboration abilities, build successful teams, and maximize their team performance for solving business problems, meeting learning needs, promoting culture change, and more.In this book, you will learn what teamwork means, why teams and teamwork skills matter, and how to overcome common challenges related to teaming. Organization development expert Thane Bellomo introduces a model for how you can form teams and develop your teamwork skills. It starts with framing the work around clear and important goals. This positions you and the team to encourage curiosity and build trust while you embrace conflict and engage in (healthy) conflict. Included are detailed takeaways and advice for applying the concepts.Other books in the series: Emotional Intelligence in Talent Development Adaptability in Talent Development Creativity in Talent Development Influence in Talent Development

In this issue of TD at Work Lindsay Fletcher and Gerhard Redelinghuys guide you in how to identify whether a virtual leadership development program is right for your organization and how to design a customized program for business impact.

Discusses the value of onboarding as well as the benefits and drawbacks of virtual learning. The book also details how to use ADDIE to develop a virtual onboarding program; outlines managers' roles in virtual onboarding; and advises on how to gain - and retain - stakeholder buy-in for your program.

Enhance Your Emotional IntelligenceEmotional intelligence is about people. And so is talent development (TD). For TD professionals to succeed, they must be comfortable with all aspects of working with people. The best tool for their success is emotional intelligence.Part of the ATD Soft Skills Series, Emotional Intelligence in Talent Development is your resource for developing your emotional intelligence skills. Expert Patrick Malone explains emotional intelligence and explores its five dimensions: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. He examines why emotional intelligence matters to the self, to organizations, and to your business, along with the barriers you face when building these competencies.While improving your emotional intelligence can seem daunting, Malone demonstrates that developing strong emotional intelligence is attainable by examining real-world challenges that TD professionals face. Learn how to manage the stress of constantly doing more with less; focus on one task at a time and do it well; effectively communicate your message; and identify and address conflict.Included are reflection questions and exercises to practice and test your development.Other books in the series: Adaptability in Talent Development Creativity in Talent Development Teamwork in Talent Development Influence in Talent Development

Developing frontline managers is key to an organisation's overall health and prosperity. The latest book in ATD's Workshop Series, this offers trainers of all expertise levels the tools and strategies necessary for delivering powerful professional development training for frontline managers.

Offers practices and approaches to help you and your organisation roll out, receive, and manage change effectively. Specifically, Kathryn Zukof shows that you need to manage the process (or the 'hard') side and the people (or the 'soft') side of change and find the sweet spot between the two.

Guides you through the production knowledge and skills a trainer needs to master the production of virtual events while delivering engaging training, productive meetings, and captivating webinars - from how to prepare the technology and content beforehand to how to run everything smoothly.

Describes the benefits, uses, and risks of AI technology and offers tools to strengthen and enhance learning and performance programs. In layman's terms, Margie Meacham demonstrates how we can free time by employing a useful robot ""assistant"", create a chatbot for specific tasks, and build personalized coaching tools from AI-processed big data.

New or aspiring talent development executives can learn a lot from the best of the best - the high-performing, award-winning companies responding to increased pressure to deliver business value. Forward-Focused Learning features organisations that are proactive about looking for ways to grow, build, and learn.

A practical, fun collection of tips, advice, and insights for anyone dealing with or managing organizational change.

Drawing upon firsthand experiences and insights from senior practitioners, Leading the Learning Function offers best practices, tools, techniques, and processes that successful business leaders use to develop, build, and implement their personal leadership skill sets.

Become an exceptional manager - learn to motivate employees, communicate expectations effectively, and build great work teams.

Demonstrates the value of finding a mentor at any stage of your career; explains the different types of mentoring relationships; describes how to build significant mentoring relationship with trust and respect; discusses setting expectations and developmental goals; and equips you with practical tools for achieving your learning goals.

Delves into the definition of games and gamification. Zsolt Olah details considerations for building a game-based learning strategy that is engaging and effective; presents case studies of when to use game-based learning or gamification and when not to; and offers tips on how to keep learners in mind while building learning games.

For those who have to design new employee orientation programs at the organizational or departmental level, this guide aims to make the process much easier and help you solve the most common challenges you are likely to face. It includes customizable PowerPoint[trademark] presentation slides to help expedite your new employee training.

Addressing the various activities that fall under the time management umbrella - setting priorities and goals, analyzing where time is spent, demands on time, and scheduling, this book reveals how to help others develop strategies for productivity and effectiveness.

Human Performance Improvement (HPI) is a growing area of expertise among workplace learning professionals. This book provides a basic guide for those with little or no background in HPI and includes examples, checklists, and other tools to aid in understanding as you move along the path to becoming a valued HPI practitioner in your organization.

Aims to help trainers find a happy medium between the amount of technology that can be ignored and the amount of technology a savvy trainer needs to possess to get the job done; and to turn your newly acquired tech savvy into a workable, functional e-learning solution.