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 through 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 celebrated 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 Foundation1. Your Organization’s Learning Culture2. Leaders Champion Learning3. Employees Value Learning4. Everyone has a Learning Mindset5. Clarifying Your Organization’s Readiness

II. Develop a Talent Development Strategy6. Build a Business Case for Learning7. Enhance Your Organizational and Industry Savvy8. Expand Talent Development’s Purpose9. Partner with Business to Become Trusted Advisers

III. Create an Operating Plan10. Align TD to the Organization’s Needs11. Manage the TD Function12. Balance Services and Budget13. Leveraging Technology for Learning

IV. Reinforce an Organizational Talent Development Mindset14. Maturing Your Organization’s Learning Culture15. How Your Organization Learns to Perform16. Managers Develop their Employees17. Employees Are Accountable for Their Development18. Talent Development Professionals Are Consultants

V. Design and Deliver Learning19. Formal Learning20. Learning from Others21. On-the-Job Learning22. Contemporary Content23. Services Provided by TD Professionals

VI. Fortifying the Learning24. Enable Social Learning25. Empower Employees26. Coach Managers27. Foster Continual Self-Learning28. Develop TD Staff

VII. Define and Measure the Impact29. Determine and Demonstrate Organizational Impact30. Evaluation Methods31. Getting Started With Evaluation32. The Future of Evaluation

VIII. Prepare for the Future33. The Workplace of the Future34. The Workforce of the Future35. Talent Development Future Trends36. Guiding Your Organization’s Future