Your Guide for Success in Talent Development and Healthcare Within every corner of a healthcare system reside talent development and training initiatives and thus the need for talent development (TD) professionals and expertise. The ATD Talent Development and Training in Healthcare Handbook addresses the many opportunities and complex TD professionals face in the growing and rapidly changing healthcare space. Effective talent development is the thread that weaves through an entire healthcare organization to ensure it is up to standard with latest practices in treating patients while providing a safe and engaging environment for staff. Whether you are new to the field, a clinician new TD, or a seasoned TD professional in need of solutions and best practices, you can turn to this evergreen resource whenever you need tried-and-true advice. TD professionals have the unique role of tying together organizational and employee advancement in healthcare systems—and likewise, this handbook dives into areas for both business and professional evolution. It covers six key themes across 26 chapters: Learning and Development Basics Organizational Development Employee Development Business Acumen for the Health System Digital Transformation and Literacy Patient-Centric Care Written by 25 fellow healthcare practitioners with extensive experience in the field—from nurses, physicians, and administrators to instructional designers, chief learning officers, technology experts, and leaders across the industry—this book will help you maximize the impact of your work and improve your abilities to deliver the best care possible to your patients.

Start, Build, and Navigate Your Training and TD Career ATD’s Handbook for Training and Talent Development is the premier resource and compendium of everything a training and talent development (TD) professional needs to know to start, build, and navigate a thriving career. Now in its third edition and grounded by the Talent Development Capability Model, this is more than a revised volume. This edition offers an up-to-date view of the growing roles of talent development professionals, our changing world of work, and the critical need for business alignment. Edited by Elaine Biech, the third edition is divided into eight sections comprising 57 chapters authored by 100 expert practitioners—the brightest thinkers in the field—who share foundational and advanced perspectives and information. The Handbook dives deeply into growing professional expertise and personal skills, virtual learning and remote work, trends affecting TD, managing organizational and career change, growing roles in TD, and understanding organizational impact and business alignment. Fifty online tools are available to download, and there is also a glossary and references. TD professionals, keep this practical, companionable volume close by; it’s the reference you will always turn to.

The rapid evolution of technology continuously changes the way people interact, work, and learn. By examining these advances, researchers can further optimize the various opportunities that technology provides. The Handbook of Research on Human Development in the Digital Age is a pivotal reference source presenting the latest scholarly research on the impact of technology on the population through different theories and perspectives. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics such as cyberbullying, mobile technology, and social skills development, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and practitioners seeking current research on new trends in technology that impact society.

Effective talent development is the thread that weaves through the entire healthcare organization to ensure it is up to standard with the latest practices in treating patients while providing a safe and engaging environment for staff. The ATD Talent Development and Training in Healthcare Handbook addresses the many opportunities and challenges talent development professionals face in the healthcare space. Maximize the impact of your work and improve your abilities to deliver the best care possible to your patients.

Get Started Now. Take Action. Staying ahead of change in the world, your organization, and your profession requires action. You learned a lot to launch your organization’s talent development effort. As you position it for the future, what you need to know grows exponentially. As futurist Ray Kurzweil once said, “If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.” How do you prepare for exponential growth? In ATD’s Action Guide to Talent Development: A Practical Approach to Building Organizational Success, industry expert and bestselling author Elaine Biech lays out the steps you can take. The companion volume to ATD’s Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and Leading Your Organization’s TD Effort, this book follows an eight-step framework for defining your organization’s learning foundation through preparing for the future. You are your organization’s trusted advisor, and Biech offers practical questions, organizational assessments, and tips for each step you must guide your organization through. She also presents the newest thinking from university educators and researchers that organizational experts have relied on for years, as well as from industry practitioners and luminaries in leadership and development. Open this book to any page. Jump in where you think it will be most beneficial to you or your organization. Whether you work inside a company or as an external consultant, whether you work for a large organization or a small one, whether you are launching your first talent development effort or fine-tuning a function that’s been in action for decades—you are sure to find valuable concepts, designs, and ideas. Get started now. Take action.

In our contemporary era, while diversity is acknowledged, true inclusion remains an elusive goal, as society grapples with multifaceted challenges. The "great resignation" and movements like #MeToo have exposed workplace culture issues, while events like Black Lives Matter protests underscored glaring disparities. Simultaneously, rapid technological advancements introduce new risks, from cyber exploitation to biased AI. These complexities demand innovative solutions that address these challenges, fostering environments of genuine respect, understanding, and collaboration. Applied Research Approaches to Technology, Healthcare, and Business, edited by Dr. Darrell Norman Burrell, emerges as a transformative force. This dynamic anthology presents insights, research, and actionable recommendations from diverse fields and perspectives, taking an interdisciplinary approach to unravel workplace dynamics, health disparities, and technological advancements. Topics include inclusive leadership, equitable technology, bias in AI, and forging collaboration across religious and cultural differences. By harmonizing voices and expertise, this book offers transformative approaches for individuals, educators, and professionals. This rich resource empowers readers to navigate today's societal challenges, equipping them to become architects of a more inclusive, equitable, and harmonious future across technology, healthcare, and business.

Business Plans Handbooks are collections of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. For those looking for examples of how to approach, structure and compose their own business plans, this Handbook presents sample plans taken from businesses in the Software industry -- only the company names and addresses have been changed. Typical business plans include type of business; statement of purpose; executive summary; business/industry description; market; product and production; management/personnel; and, financial specifics.

The learning and development (L&D) needs of the healthcare industry are dramatically different from those of other businesses, making for unique challenges for the talent development field. Patients are not customers, for example, and healthcare’s learning audience is extremely segmented. Additional hurdles to designing and delivering training include the changing dynamics of healthcare—for example, new regulations and the increasing number of individuals accessing healthcare services and its payment structure. This issue of TD at Work will explain how: · learning needs in the healthcare field differ from other professions · the ADDIE model can be modified for the healthcare sector · to align training with current reporting requirements · to choose the correct tools to evaluate the effectiveness of L&D programs. (long copy includes): “Learning and Development in Healthcare” includes two job aids: a training project planning tool and a Kirkpatrick program impact rating tool.

To thrive in the modern healthcare setting, healthcare practitioners need strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. In “The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Healthcare,” Joann Farrell Quinn and Sarah E. Hoffe teach talent development practitioners about the emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills that health practitioners need. This issue of TD at Work includes: tools to help healthcare practitioners build their emotional intelligence guidance on how healthcare practitioners can practice emotional intelligence to succeed at all levels the emotional intelligence framework exercises to use with healthcare practitioners.

Distance learning for both the education and industry is steadily growing, creating a demand for eager entrepreneurs. Teaching methods and tools now in popular use for virtual training are covered: videos; eBooks; interactive software types; college sponsored staff training for college instructors; hardware, camera, video, sound equipment; online group forums; online events; choosing the right presentation style and linking to appropriate social media sites; and networking presentations. A range of industry examples will be given for accreditation, certifications, and credit; adding training onto an existing business as side income; how to sell media/training tools; how much to charge clients; start up costs; software types used; the legal obligations around taxes, business registration, working from home, and content confidentiality; and growth planning and writing a business plan. Relevant and fun call-outs, tip boxes, industry stats, an index, and a rich appendix and glossary is provided. An appendix offers resources in continued learning and rounded training for trainers; industry organizations and trade groups; books and eBooks; videos; software; websites; successful online trainers and online education institutions; consultants; and certification organizations.