Seven Trends in Corporate Training and Development: Strategies to Align Goals with Employee Needs

Understand, anticipate, master, and leverage the seven powerful trends that are transforming workplace training and development! In Seven Trends in Corporate Training and Development, pioneering innovator Ibraiz Tarique offers actionable thought leadership on all seven trends, helping you address the new challenges they present, and leverage new opportunities they offer. Tarique focuses on strategic directions for training and development, while offering tangible and specific recommendations for addressing and anticipating all seven trends. His example-rich, best-practice coverage includes:
 

• How and why the role of training and development professionals is changing
• Impacts ranging from globalization and demographics to hybrid career paths
• What future learning systems will look like
• Leveraging emerging technologies and new approaches to collaboration
• Measuring training ROI
• Using training to develop new sources of talent
• Helping employees discern fact from opinion
• Applying powerful new insights into how adults learn Teaching agility
• Making person-centered learning work
• Getting more value from informal learning
• Using stretch assignments to strengthen critical thinking
• Leveraging "new experts" within and beyond your organization

 
For all HR leaders and specialists with direct or indirect responsibility for organizational learning, including Directors of Learning and Development, Directors of Talent Management, Chief Learning Officers, HR Training Managers, and trainers

Ibraiz Tarique, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Human Resources Management and Director of Global HRM Programs at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York City Campus. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from Rutgers University (2005). Dr. Tarique publishes and consults in the area of international human resource management. His academic research interest is in international human resource management with a focus on issues related to global talent management and investments in human capital. His applied research focuses on examining the approaches that organizations use to develop HR and global HR professionals.

He has written extensively in academic and professional journals. His publications include articles in the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management Review, and International Journal of Training and Development, in addition to chapters contributed to several books. He has presented numerous papers at the Annual Academy of Management Meetings. He is a member of several editorial boards of international peer-reviewed journals, including International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Training and Development, Journal of Global Mobility, European Journal of International Management, and Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal.

His coauthored paper on Global Talent Management (with Dr. Randall Schuler) in the Journal of World Business was ranked as one of the most downloaded and cited papers in 2012 and 2013 by the publication. In addition, his coauthored paper on Global Leadership Effectiveness (with Dr. Paula Caligiuri) was published in the Journal of World Business and was awarded (with Dr. Paula Caligiuri) the Best Global Leadership Research published in 2013 by the Global Leadership Advancement Center.

Dr. Tarique is the coauthor of International Human Resource Management: Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises, a comprehensive textbook that provides a foundation for understanding the theory and practice of international human resource management. He is also the coauthor of Strategic Talent Management: Contemporary Issues in International Context. This book examines the topical issue of talent management from a strategic perspective.

Dr. Tarique teaches HRM courses at four levels: executive MBA, regular MBA, MSc in HRM, and undergraduate HRM.