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As director of credentialing for the Association of Talent Development (ATD), Morgean Hirt has more than 25 years of experience in personnel certification and accreditation across a variety of professions. She provides strategic leadership and technical expertise in developing and implementing credentialing programs, focusing on test development, policy and standards development, program audits, strategic planning, and ANSI/ISO 17024 and NCCA accreditation. Believing that standards and certification enhance professionalism and credibility, Hirt has led a number of organizations through establishing industry standards for emerging professions, including clinical research, massage therapy, and mortgage brokering.Prior to joining ATD, she served as an account executive at MetaCred, a boutique association management firm specializing in managing credentialing programs, and spent 12 years as president and CEO of Certified Fund Raising Executives International Credentialing Board, where she was responsible for establishing international support across six continents for a unified standard of fundraising practice. Hirt is also active with the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) and recently earned the Institute for Credentialing Excellence Certified Credentialing Professional (ICE-CCP) designation.

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The Talent Development Capability Model and You – A Roadmap for Your Career

Are you considering pursuing a globally recognized credential in talent development? Learn more about the Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD®) and Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD®) certification programs offered by ATD’s Certification Institute and the new resources available in Arabic. Hear from ATD’s director of credentialing, Morgean Hirt, ICE-CCP, and Aya Medhat, CPTD, an experienced trainer from the region who has held the APTD and the CPTD.
During this webinar, you will learn:
• The value of ATD certifications
• How to prepare for certification
• How to take the exam using materials now translated into Arabic

New Arabic Resources for ATD Certification

In past years, we have provided a Certification Program Update to credential holders at our annual meeting. Since many credential holders will be attending the event virtually, we are sharing this program update via a private webcast for credential holders.
Join Morgean Hirt for this private webcast to hear about the latest news related to ATD Certification Institute credentials.

Certification Program Update

Wondering about the best way to advance your career? Considering pursuing professional certification but not sure what it is all about? Join us to hear from Morgean Hirt, ATD’s Certification Institute director, and Holly Batts, ATD CI associate director, to shed some light on questions such as:

What is the difference between a certificate and certification?
Is a professional certification better than a college degree?
Is capability the same as competency?
How do ATD’s education offerings and professional certification relate to the new Talent Development Capability Model?
Who decides what is covered on the exam?
Who writes the test questions?

When you register, please submit a question that you hope the panelists will cover during the webinar.

Debunking Myths about Certification

You know that your employees and learners are unique. They come to a training course or conversation with their own wealth of experiences, roles, skills, and perspectives. Talent development professionals must recognize all of that as they design or recommend a training or development opportunity for individuals.And talent development professionals are no different than their learners. They come to the workplace with particular proficiencies, knowledge, and points of view. Some are accidental trainers. Others are coaches—internal organizational coaches or external consultants. Many are instructional designers and training managers and so much more. Similar to their learners, TD practitioners should have personalized development opportunities to help them unleash their potential, the theme for the Association for Talent Development’s Virtual Conference this week.When ATD unveiled its new Talent Development Capability Model to impart the capabilities TD professionals need today and moving forward, the association recognized the changing dynamic of work and its many uncertainties. As ATD Director of Credentialing Morgean Hirt wrote in her February 2020 TD article about the model, “This new standard for the field will help prepare TD professionals for the future of work by broadening the scope of knowledge and skills that will make them effective.”To help TD practitioners broaden their scope of knowledge while building on their current capabilities, the association has developed a self-assessment tool that will inform TD pros of where they are now and where they can go in the future. After taking the self-assessment, embedded in the interactive model that individuals can access from the Capability Model page of the ATD website, talent developers can create a personalized learning plan with an array of curated ATD resources. Hirt explains: “The results of the self-assessment act as a barometer so that you can intentionally determine what learning goals to pursue and create a plan to reach that goal.”The personalization tools are open to anyone, but individuals must register on td.org. The available resources for the plan include TD magazine articles, past conference sessions, books, courses, webcasts, and issues of TD at Work, among many others. Users can track their progress against their learning plan, logging what they have completed. Once they’ve completed their plan, users are prompted to go back and reassess. For those who have already taken their self-assessment and know which capabilities they’d like to expand upon, they can align conference sessions with capabilities on the conference website.Individuals can assess their skills against the Certified Professional in Talent Development or Associate Professional in Talent Development or by role. Individuals choosing the CPTD learning path, for example, will have their self-assessment ratings compared only to the skills statements covered on the CPTD certification exam. Roles that are currently available as a role-specific learning path are coach, trainer, instructional designer, and e-learning professional. Additional roles will be added.ATD chapter leaders can leverage the Capability Model for their chapter, encouraging members to complete the self-assessment and deepen and expand their skill sets. “Keeping skills fresh and continually seeking to diversify your knowledge,” says Hirt, “can help you and your organization be ready to face the future.”Hirt concludes, “Embodying lifelong learning is an essential component of talent development and creating a personalized learning plan can help keep everyone ahead of the learning curve and help future-proof the profession.”Another way Virtual Conference attendees can move forward with their career is by attending a coaching session during the conference. ICF-credentialed coaches are offering free sessions all week, courtesy of Fielding Graduate University. Sign up via the signup genius. And throughout the conference, attendees can access resume and job interview tips, as well as personal branding and job bank information, at the career resources booth.Share your ATD Virtual Conference experience on social media. #ATDVirtualConference

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