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Become Indispensable in Driving Business GrowthL&D leaders must know how to connect learning strategies with business strategies and communicate effectively with leaders to improve employee performance and drive revenue. In other words, L&D needs to run like a business. Enter learning operations expert Tracie Cantu and her innovative Learning Operations Blueprint, which puts critical business needs first and brings rigorous systems-based thinking to corporate learning. This first-of-its-kind approach offers step-by-step guidance for updating L&D processes and structures to immediately improve results and increase the relevance of the L&D function. When learning teams and leadership become better partners, outcomes improve for organizations and employees. You’ll learn how to build an L&D business model that works, how to manage a portfolio of learning products, and how to design employee learning experiences that improve outcomes without demanding more tech or human resources. Cantu also provides questions for reflection, checklists, worksheets, and scorecards for practical application of her recommendations. Each chapter includes tips for taking action immediately and real-world stories that illustrate how to use the framework successfully and avoid common pitfalls. With this book, you will learn to scale your impact, secure your influence, and reach L&D’s potential. 

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Incorporate Microlearning Campaigns to Reach Business GoalsWhether you’re an L&D veteran who has “been there, done that” or are just starting out, it’s time to get smarter about microlearning, and expert Robyn A. Defelice can help.Expanding on her first groundbreaking book, Microlearning: Short and Sweet, Robyn offers a new and more complete definition of microlearning as a concept, a method, and a product—all of which L&D professionals need to understand to create successful microlearning campaigns that target key business goals. She introduces a six-factor framework that leaders and managers who develop organization-wide learning initiatives can use to create top-notch microlearning strategies to fit their organizations’ learning needs. She also offers designers a set of seven principles (tool capacity, context, global equity, conciseness, meaningful media, action, and overuse) for creating microlearning solutions that work.Packed with real-world stories, tips from experts in the field, activities, and tools and templates in every chapter, Maximizing the Power of Microlearning provides foundational, research-based information in a relaxed, accessible style.As the microlearning landscape continues to evolve, professionals at all levels need clarity and guidance about what microlearning really is. In this book, Robyn offers that clarity. She addresses confusion head-on and provides insights, strategies, and practical advice to L&D professionals looking to improve learning experiences and business outcomes.

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Invest in Leaders at All Levels as a Key Part of Your Business Strategy Tina Schust Robinson offers a much-needed reimagining of leadership development. She guides those who do the actual work of designing, building, and managing leadership development initiatives within their organizations toward a more holistic and successful leadership development approach. Introducing her innovative, three-part framework, Robinson goes beyond the questions of “Why is leadership development a crucial aspect of any business strategy?” and “What characteristics define a good leader?” to dig deep into the “how” of leadership development. Namely, how can talent development professionals and teams craft initiatives that are tied to their organization’s and employees’ specific needs, sustainable over time, and highly effective?The heart of the book is Tina’s one-to-one, one-to-many, and one-to-all leadership development framework. It demonstrates how organizations can pursue coaching and mentoring for individuals, improve leadership training for groups, and develop a comprehensive organizational strategy to address leadership development throughout the talent life cycle—from recruiting and onboarding to performance and goal management—through development, succession planning, and rewards and retention. Practical and accessible, the framework includes tools and exercises to help practitioners tailor their solutions to specific audiences and business needs. In each chapter, Tina shares insights from interviews with successful leaders and talent development pros to show the three-pronged framework in action. Checklists, assessments, and questionnaires allow you to apply the framework immediately.

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Motivate and Engage Learners to Drive Your Business ForwardOrganizations that prioritize employee learning engagement are best positioned to thrive in our rapidly evolving business landscape. Veteran learning strategist Becky Willis demonstrates how an organization can achieve stellar learning engagement in seven simple steps and then turn that engagement into a powerful competitive advantage.Becky writes this book for those who have strategic responsibility for integrating learning into broader organizational initiatives, whether they are learning leaders, HR professionals, L&D practitioners, or other talent development (TD) professionals. Step-by-step, she walks you through the process of devising and communicating a clear strategy for learning engagement, selecting and implementing the right technology, recruiting and deploying champions, and mastering the art of marketing learning experiences. She helps you learn to work with leaders and managers to sponsor, support, and collaborate on learning. Each chapter includes questionnaires, tools, and templates to ensure TD pros and learning designers can translate ideas into practical actions immediately. With this book in hand, you will have what you need to become an effective business partner who enhances employees’ knowledge, skills, and commitment to the organization and drives positive bottom-line results.