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Growing Talent Development Firms: Grow or Die?

ATD Human Capital

As ATD prepares to publish my new book, The Complete Guide to Building and Growing a Talent Development Firm , I thought a good final blog post, at least for now, should focus on the alternative to growth. Why change when everything else is going well? That is, what if you don’t want to grow your business?

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Why the ROI of Learning Shouldn't Be a Question

Cornerstone On Demand

As companies increasingly recognize that an investment in learning directly impacts workforce productivity, satisfaction and performance, they are working to create and prioritize new educational and talent development opportunities for their employees. The difference is that now it's happening in smaller cities as well.

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People Analytics and HR-Tech Reading List

Littal Shemer

The book introduces these areas and guides on building the connectivity across domains required to establish well-rounded skills for individuals and best practices for organizations when applying advanced analytics to workforce data. “The book focuses on the use of information technologies in talent management.

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There’s No Shortcut to Success

Workplace Psychology

The most fulfilled people are individuals who delight in their work, whatever it might be, and strive to do it well. And they are people who relish the challenge to pursue excellence in their activities, as well as in themselves. Making that decision and taking that plunge was one of the SCARIEST and BEST decisions of my life !

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Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help

Workplace Psychology

In December 2017, I (along with many of my colleagues) got laid off by the parent company that had acquired our smaller company in 2014. corporations have been reducing the size of their workforces at alarming rates since the late 1980s” (Levy, 2017, p. Some hidden costs of downsizing include (Snell & Bohlander, 2013, p.

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Book Review: Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis

Workplace Psychology

The first topic , well-covered in many I/O psychology textbooks, is adverse impact and the 80 percent rule (or four-fifths rule) used to make an adverse impact determination in employee selection. In Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.), 8]; (2) recruitment [Ch. 11]; (3) cognitive ability tests in personnel selection [Ch.

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Ahva Sadeghi On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

Thrive Global

In 2013, I was one of the very first remote interns with the US Department of State and it inspired the concept for my future company. As Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, astutely put it, “Train people well enough so they can leave and treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” In fact, U.S.