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New ways to learn, grow, and connect with ATD!
ATD Community
We’re excited to announce ATD Community, a new member-only benefit launching in early January 2025! This online space was created specifically for ATD members—a place where you can connect with peers, share knowledge, and work through challenges together.
Here’s what you can look forward to in the space:
Building connections with a network of passionate L&D professionals.
Exchanging ideas to spark innovation and creativity.
Collaborating on solutions to overcome shared challenges.
ATD Community is more than just a platform—it’s a space to grow alongside others who are just as committed to learning and development as you are.
We can’t wait for you to explore everything this new benefit has to offer. Join us January 9th for our Community Walkthrough webinar to learn more!
Talent Development Career Pathways
L&D is home to many practitioners who've come from other industries. Explore myriad roles and their responsibilities across a variety of job families. Learn what skills are required, understand what it is like to work in these roles, and connect to a self-assessment and learning resources that can help prepare for that next opportunity.
With TD Career Pathways, our members will be empowered to:
Gain greater understanding of the different factors that can affect roles in talent development, how to navigate those differences during a job search, and connect to resources to help you transition to a new role or into talent development from another field.
Connect your TD Capability Model self-assessment results to roles you may be interested in to see an alignment of your skill proficiency for TD roles
View career profiles of people working in L&D to better understand “a day in the life” of TD professionals and how the work varies across organizations
Take a deeper dive into each role, understand the skills and responsibilities needed and apply ATD resources to help you grow towards your goals.
December TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on instructional design. Other articles explore sales, coaching, ATD’s State of the Industry report, and much more.
TD at Work Guide: A Whole-Self Mindset Improves Company Culture - Although the road to bringing our whole selves to work in a genuine and authentic fashion is sometimes fraught with difficulties, it remains—for talent development professionals—the best path forward in blazing a trail for others to follow. Use this new TD at Work to learn more about whole-self principles and psychological safety in your organization.
Templates and Tools: Design Considerations for Assessment and Evaluation - An assessment is a way to measure or determine an individual participant’s knowledge and skill. Evaluations differ from assessments in that they assess the performance of the learning program. Use this tool to help you design better questions for each.
Templates and Tools: Encourage Learners to Build Memory - Just because learners hear or see content does not mean they will retain or learn it. This is why it’s important for talent development professionals to understand how memory is built and ways to encourage learners to build memory. Use this resource to inform considerations you should make when designing learning experiences.
Templates and Tools: Reducing Cognitive Load - There are three types of cognitive loads that training development professionals should consider. Use this tool to help define and reduce each for your learners.
November TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on My Career. Other articles explore technology, data, leadership and much more.
TD at Work Guide: Improve Retention With Drip-Feed Learning - The struggle to reinforce the exchange of skills or knowledge despite scant time, a distracted workforce, and growing skills needs is real. In this issue of TD at Work, Shannon Tipton demonstrates how drip-feed learning can affect employee training programs, which tools to use, and how to create an effective campaign.
Research Report: Leadership Skills: Unlocking Your Abilities to Face Tomorrow’s Challenges - Being a successful leader, requires a wide portfolio of skills, including technical knowledge, subject matter expertise, and exceptional people skills. This study draws on a sample of 239 talent development professionals to answer key questions around training leaders, highlight best practices, and detail the skills needed to be an effective leader today.
Research Report: Bridging the TD Skills Gap: Preparing for the Future - In Bridging the TD Skills Gap: Preparing for the Future, 242 TD professionals answered questions about what TD skills gaps they expect in five years, what their organizations are doing to address future TD skills gaps, and how they foresee various trends affecting the TD function.
Templates and Tools: Mager's Model for Writing Learning Objectives - The most widely established method of formatting a performance-based learning objective was devised by Robert Mager in 1962.
Templates and Tools: Usability Testing Script Guidance - This tool provides script guidance for the three types of usability tests.
Templates and Tools: The Six Drivers of Performance - Use this resource to identify the drivers of performance, assess their impact on human performance, and recommend the most effective solutions to performance gaps.
Templates and Tools: Behavioral Styles and Important Context - While planning is crucial for a successful learning event, facilitators need to make many in-the-moment decisions that cannot be planned ahead of time. Adaptability is the key. Use this resource to identify behavioral styles, assess their impact on the group, and recognize fundamental context for engaging every participant.
October TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on cultural awareness and inclusion. Other articles explore instructional design, data mining, negotiation, and much more.
TD at Work Guide: Enhance Accessibility in Virtual Training Environments - Accessibility is not just for self-paced e-learning or to comply with laws such as Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If trainers truly want to be effective during virtual-instructor-led training, they will increase and enhance accessibility to reach as many learners as possible. In this work guide, we'll review virtual learning accessibility from start to evaluation!
Train the Trainer TD at Work Guide Collection: Second Edition - Now with 95% new content!
Research Report: The Science of Learning: Embracing the Science Behind TD - In The Science of Learning: Embracing the Science Behind TD, 340 TD professionals answered questions about their level of knowledge on the science of learning, how they apply the science of learning to their work, and how they develop their knowledge and skills in this area.
Research Report: AI in Learning and Talent Development: A Closer Look Into Its Future Potential in the Workplace - This study can help organizations understand the future of AI in talent development. It concludes with suggested action steps and ATD resources to help organizations learn about and use AI at their own organization.
Templates and Tools: The Empathy Map: Learner and Stakeholder Perspectives - Use these sample questions to help formulate the right questions to ask when assessing each level of need.
Templates and Tools: Facilitation Techniques - Facilitation is a skill that requires practice and preparation with different techniques. When facilitating, use this resource to guide you in selecting and using multiple facilitation behaviors and techniques for your session.
Templates and Tools: Learning Needs Sample Questions - Needs assessments can help improve policy or program decisions, individuals, education, training, organizations, communities, or products. Use this tool to ensure your needs assessment includes the questions needed to be successful.
Templates and Tools: SME Quick Reference Guide - To foster the relationship between the SME and the talent development professional, it is important to clarify different roles and how to best work together at the start of the project. Use this guide to support you and your SME.
Templates and Tools: Project Management Inputs and Outputs - Covers the inputs and outputs seen at each phase of the project management process. Some of the outputs also provide examples of the applicable material or information seen within the output deliverable.
September TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on training delivery and facilitation. Other articles explore mobile learning, career communities, change management, and much more.
TD at Work: Training Deskless Workers - How can an employer train busy team members to support the business without removing them from running it? This month's TD at Work reviews the proper resources and training to ensure your team members will be more motivated and better able to handle their work—now and in the future.
Research Report: Making Learning Assessments Successful: Using Performance and Tests to Measure Knowledge and Skills Learned in Training - This study can help organizations benchmark their learning assessments and provide advice on best practices for measuring learning. It concludes with suggested action steps and ATD resources to help organizations create the most effective learning assessments.
Research Report: Blended Learning: Leverage Flexibility to Maximize Results - A blended learning program allows participants the flexibility to learn largely on their own schedule. This report brings you findings to answer key questions about blended learning and highlight best practices and provides examples and insights from other organizations and professionals.
Templates and Tools: Effective Practices to Prepare for Learning - There are a lot of tasks to keep track of while preparing for your learning event(s). Use this checklist of common and effective practices to ensure you are on the right track as you prepare for your learning.
Templates and Tools: Key Adult Learning Theory Concepts and Application Tips - A good understanding of Adult Learning Concepts is a key part of developing learning that works. Use this tool to review Adult Learning Concepts and examples of how to apply them.
Templates and Tools: AI and XR Considerations - Talent development professionals need to be aware of bias and ethical considerations when implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) solutions in their work. These checklists highlight the most important things for talent development professionals to consider when working with these technologies.
Templates and Tools: Structuring the Learning Function Toolkit - The learning function plays a strategic role in the overall success of an organization. Knowing the options you have and the ways to assess what will be most effective and efficient for your group is important in managing the learning function and designing and implementing the talent strategy.
August TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on learning sciences. Other articles explore performance improvement, the power of influence, 3D models, and much more.
TD at Work: Feedback for Better Performance - Feedback ties together performance management, employee engagement, and L&D. Leaders must ensure that feedback is continuous at every level. In this issue of TD at Work, Colin May details feedback from start to finish including frameworks, conversation tips, and integrating feedback into your company culture.
Research Report: Informal Learning: Measuring Success Outside the Classroom - Informal learning in the workplace has benefits for both employer and employee. It is flexible and learner centric, so employees can learn when and where they want. The talent development function plays an important role in creating and supporting informal learning. This report draws on a sample of 297 talent development professionals to answer key questions about informal learning and highlight best practices.
Templates and Tools: Best Learning Methods: Knowledge, Skills, Attitude - Different methods are best for teaching knowledge or skills or to influence attitudes. Including a variety of methods throughout the course will ensure that varying preferences are accommodated. Use this tool to help you blend the best methods for your learning needs.
Templates and Tools: Examples of Deliberate Practice - Talent development professionals who offer deliberate practice opportunities deliver deeper learning that sticks and leads to better long-term retention. Use this tool to review deliberate practice methods, and examples of how to apply them.
Templates and Tools: Data Standards Facts Sheet - Use this tool to review the five most common data standards used in learning technologies.
July TD Magazine - This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on data and analytics. Other articles explore generative artificial intelligence, 360s, onboarding, and much more!
TD at Work: Internal Podcasts from A to Z - Have you ever considered how podcasting can relate to your organization’s goals? In this issue of TD at Work, Shannon Martin will explain what an internal podcast is, where to start, how to record, and what you can gain by creating one.
Templates and Tools: Accessibility Testing Options - Use this reference tool to help you choose the most effective accessibility-testing solution.
Templates and Tools: Engaging With Each Other - These commitments model how to build and set expectations for transparent and authentic conversation in the workplace.
Templates and Tools: Adult Learning Checklist - How will you know if a learning opportunity satisfies the six principles of andragogy? Use this checklist to evaluate it.
Templates and Tools: What Data Are You Using? - Use this tool to identify what data your organization already collects and what might be an opportunity for you to start collecting and analyzing. Be sure to consider qualitative and quantitative data.
June TD Magazine: This edition of TD magazine features theme articles focused on talent strategy and management. Other articles explore DEI fatigue, inheriting a learning program, and more.
BEST Practices 2024 TD Magazine: This special edition of TD magazine profiles the 2024 BEST Award, Excellence in Practice Award, and Advancing Talent Development Award winners that ATD has recognized for their exceptional talent development efforts. It highlights the award-winning practices of approximately 100 companies worldwide.
TD at Work: How to Implement Cohort Learning - Cohort learning—whether in person or virtual—is growing in usage, and learning professionals must be prepared to implement it. In this issue of TD at Work, you'll learn the benefits of cohort learning and how to prepare and implement cohort learning in your organization.
Research Report: Tapping the Potential of Sales Enablement - Drawing on a sample of 262 talent development professionals, this report investigates key questions to provide benchmark data and highlight best practices in sales enablement. ATD Research also took a closer look at sales enablement departments and the tools they use.
Research Report: Instructional Design in Practice - In today’s fast-paced business environment, instructional designers are tasked with creating learning experiences that meet employees’ informational needs while also considering learning needs, time constraints, and budget factors. Instructional Design in Practice: The Essential Skills and Resources examines the skills and resources necessary for the instructional design role, as described by 339 talent development professionals.
NEW Member Toolkit: Sharpening the Saw: Are You Prepared to Develop a Learning Strategy? - A learning strategy ensures alignment with the organization and helps everyone grow together to accomplish the results needed for competitive advantage. It should clearly show the role of the learning function and how to measure success. Developing a learning strategy that is grounded in the performance needs of the organization is difficult. It takes skills, time, hard work, commitment, and constant monitoring. Use this toolkit to support your learning strategy from start to finish!
Templates and Tools: Sample Needs Assessment - By conducting a thorough needs assessment, framing the data, and presenting your findings, you can become an asset to the discussions regarding the overall learning strategy for your organization. Use this Sample Needs Assessment report to see an example of what to include in your reports and ways to frame the data collected.
Templates and Tools: ROPES Instructional Planning Template - Use the ROPES Model to organize the sequence of your training session.
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