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.
Elaine Biech, CPTD fellow, believes excellence isn’t optional. Her passion is helping others achieve their passion. She specializes in maximizing individual, team, and organizational effectiveness using her expertise in OD, training, and consulting. She custom designs every project to address each client’s unique needs. She conducts strategic planning and implements organization-wide systems including process improvement, change management, leadership development, onboarding, and mentoring programs. She has developed hundreds of training courses and apps. As the founder and president of ebb associates inc, Elaine helps organizations implement large-scale change and is particularly adept at turning dysfunctional teams into productive teams.
As a management and executive consultant, trainer, and designer, Elaine’s clients include the US Navy, China Sinopec, China Telecom, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Banco de Credito Peru, Lockheed Martin, Outback Steakhouse, FAA, Land O’Lakes, McDonald’s, Lands’ End, Johnson Wax, Federal Reserve Bank, Department of Homeland Security, American Family Insurance, Marathon Oil, Hershey Chocolate, NASA, Newport News Shipbuilding, Kohler Company, American Red Cross, Association of Independent CPAs, The College of William and Mary, and hundreds of other public and private sector organizations. She designed the first process improvement programs for The Newport News Shipbuilding Company and McDonald’s as well as Hershey Chocolate’s first creativity and innovation program; she also presented one of the first ever virtual training sessions in 1986 for NASA.
