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Free Resources on the Business of Learning

E-Books, guides, templates and more to help you improve the impact of corporate learning and development.

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Workforce Development

3 Communication Skills for Today’s Workplace

Infographic
This infographic explores three types of communication skills your employees at all levels need to find success in today’s workplace.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Gaining Buy-in for Your Training Recommendations

Guide
Craft recommendations the ensure stakeholder buy-in and learn how to proactively address - and avoid - resistance.
Leadership

Strategies for Conflict Resolution

Guide
Conflict is unavoidable, are you prepared to overcome it? Learn how to create a healthier work environment by effectively managing conflict.
Professional Development

The Professional Development Plan Template

Template
Set SMART goals and craft your professional development plan by assessing your strengths and weaknesses.
Workforce Development

L&D's Role in Career Mobility: 4 Tips for Success

Infographic
This infographic offers tips to help you leverage career mobility to retain top talent and support a culture of continuous growth.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

8 Elements of a L&D Plan

Guide
Create a roadmap for improving human performance and achieving better business outcomes with these 8 fundamental elements of a L&D plan.
Professional Development

Leading the Training Function: 5 Tips From the Trenches

Infographic
This infographic offers tips that can help you overcome challenges to set you — and your organization — up for success in the new year.
Professional Development

Analyzing the Career and Salary Attributes of L&D Professionals

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Learn about the factors that impact your salary and career, as well as actionable strategies for professional development and growth.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

4 Tips To Ensure Training Brings Value to the Business

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This infographic outlines four tips to help you better achieve strategic alignment and business impact as a result.
Learning Technologies

4 Questions To Consider When Selecting a Learning Technology Solution

Infographic
Download the infographic for the guidance you need to maximize your learning technology investment.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Trends 2023: Managing Training for a Changing Workplace

Report
The world of work is changing and so must training. This report highlights six trends influencing the future of learning and development.
IT and Technical Training

4 Skills To Accelerate Digital Transformation

Infographic
Download the infographic for tips on improving your training to keep up with the pace of digital change
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Creating a Strategic Plan: Best Practices for Developing Training that Improves Business Outcomes

E-Book
Learn how to create a strategic plan that aligns training to business results.
Remote Learning

The Guide to Creating Engaging Remote Learning Content

Guide
Gain the tips and tools you need to deliver engaging remote learning experiences that achieve maximum impact.
Remote Learning

5 Steps to Delivering Successful Remote Learning Programs

Guide
Use this 5-step guide to create a robust remote learning plan as well as identify where your current plan may have gone wrong.
Performance Management

Learning Throughout the Employee Lifecycle

Infographic
Explore the learning and development (L&D) opportunities to promote throughout each stage of the employee lifecycle.
Learning Technologies

Strategies for Managing Your Learning Tech Stack

Guide
Discover strategies for managing and identifying the learning technologies that will address your challenges and meet your needs.
Learning Technologies

3 Steps for Conducting a Learning Tech Needs Assessment

Guide
Using this four-step process, conduct a thorough needs analysis that pinpoints the technology solutions you need to address your challenges.
Compliance

Leadership Skills for a Human-centric Workplace

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Use this infographic to learn how to create a people-focused work environment that empowers employees to reach their full potential.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

3 Templates to Help Your L&D Strategy Succeed

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Start your journey towards strategically aligning L&D to organizational goals with this toolkit of guides and templates.
Learning Services and Outsourcing

Partnering for Performance: Best Practices and Pro Tips

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Use this infographic to learn more about the different types of training partnerships and how to leverage them for better training.
Performance Management

4 Steps To Conduct an Effective Training Needs Analysis

Infographic
Use this infographic as a guide to help you conduct a needs analysis in your organization.
Leadership

Assessing Your Company's Leadership Development Context

Template
Use this template to consider your learners' diverse preferences and needs, and how they impact which training solutions you should use.
Leadership

Leading Leadership Development: Aligning KPIs to Organizational Goals

Template
Prove the impact of your initiatives by aligning your organizational goals, L&D plan and leadership development program goals.
Leadership

The Training Manager’s Leadership Development Roadmap 

Job Aid
Discover the process that will set you up for success from start to finish during the leadership development process.
Leadership

Training Industry's Leadership Development Model

Job Aid
Training Industry’s research-based Leadership Development Model identifies the top factors impacting leadership training outcomes.
Content Development

Develop a Strategy for Better Learning in the Flow of Work

Infographic
This infographic will equip you with tips on building a culture of learning by diversifying your training delivery with microlearning.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Helping Training Managers Become D&I Champions

Guide
Discover strategies and methodologies to become a champion of DEI in your organization, and to help your learners become champions as well.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Pitfalls and Barriers That Sabotage D&I Efforts

Guide
Action starts with awareness - explore the top pitfalls and organizational barriers that may be holding your DEI programs back.
Measurement and Analytics

Training Needs Assessment: Project Planning Checklist

Guide
Keep this checklist handy to prepare for a thorough and efficient training needs analysis that prioritizes business goals.
Professional Development

Guide to the Training Manager Competency Model

Guide
The Training Manager Competency Model™ provides you with specific insight into the core competencies of the training manager job role.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

"E" Is For Equity: The ABCs of Equitable Learning

Infographic
Use this infographic as your guide to delivering equitable learning for all.
Remote Learning

Making Hybrid Learning Work: Best Practices for Training a Dispersed Workforce

E-Book
Learn real-world solutions to common hybrid learning challenges.
Measurement and Analytics

Measuring the Impact of L&D: My Evaluation Plan

Template
Craft your own training evaluation plan to determine whether your training was truly effective in driving business impact.
Leadership

4 Ways To Deliver Effective Employee Feedback

Infographic
Use this infographic to better understand the ways to deliver effective employee feedback and how to reinforce effective behavior and end bad habits.
Content Development

3 Hybrid Learning Challenges and Solutions

Infographic
Use this infographic to gain tips and tricks gathered from the L&D community that will help you overcome the challenges of hybrid learning.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

3 Ways To Leverage L&D for Talent Retention

Infographic
View this infographic to learn how learning and development can help retain talent for the long-haul.
Content Development

5 Stages of Design Thinking

Job Aid
Use this roadmap in your day-to-day as a reference for how you can incorporate the 5 stages of design thinking into your programs.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Training's Role in Building Company Culture: 3 Tips for Success

Infographic
This infographic offers three tips to help you leverage training to create a culture that supports learning and growth from the inside out.
Performance Management

The Essentials of Assessing Employee Performance

Infographic
Use this infographic to understand the essentials of assessing employee performance to create measurable success in your organization.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Trends 2022: Enhancing the Efficiency of the Training Function

Report
Are you ready for the future of learning and development? This report examines six trends shaping the future of corporate training.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

3 Ways Agile Learning Can Improve Your Training Design

Infographic
Use this infographic to learn how Agile learning design can help L&D create effective, engaging training, even on the tightest schedule.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Building Business Acumen: 3 Tips To Becoming a Trusted Partner

Infographic
Use this infographic to build business acumen and gain that coveted seat at the table once and for all.
Personalization and Learning Pathways

Manifesto for HR Development

Guide
Explore the guiding principles of Agile HR and keep them top of mind as you navigate a more agile way of work.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

4 Strategies To Uplift Employee Wellness

Infographic
Use this infographic to become not just a learning leader who manages training, but an organizational leader who drives business impact.
Professional Development

The 6 Step Checklist to Conquering Your First Year as a Training Manager

Infographic
Discover the most common challenges training managers face during their first year on the job and the 6 steps you can use to tackle them.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

4 Tips for Effective Internal Consulting

Infographic
Become an organizational leader who drives business impact.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Psychological Safety and Learning: 4 Elements of an Inclusive Organization

Infographic
Find out what it takes to be an inclusive organization that provides a safe environment for employees to thrive.
Remote Learning

5 Ways To Create a Blended Learning Experience

Infographic
Learn how to create a blended and more meaningful learning experience.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Creating a Social Learning Culture in the Modern Workplace

Infographic
Learn how you can use all the tools and strategies at your disposal to create a culture of social learning in your organization.
Leadership

Developing the Modern Leader: Essential Skills and Training Tips

Infographic
Learn how can you use learning and development to help your organization thrive.
Remote Learning

5 Ways Experiential Learning Programs Can Improve Training

Infographic
Learn five ways experiential learning can improve performance.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

5 Tips for Turning 2020 Disarray Into 2021 Direction: Insights From Learning Leaders

Infographic
Using lessons learned from 2020, this infographic outlines 5 tips for planning a successful new year.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Training That Creates an Inclusive and Equitable Workplace

E-Book
Learn how training can support a more equitable and inclusive business environment for all.
IT and Technical Training

Expert Perspectives on Cybersecurity Training

E-Book
Use these expert insights to deliver cybersecurity training that keeps your people, and the business, safe.
Performance Management

Expert Perspectives on Performance Management

E-Book
From giving feedback to conducting performance reviews, learn strategies for impactful performance management.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Training in the Future of Work

E-Book
Learn how training can help organizations adapt to change and remain competitive in the future of work.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Leading Training in a Shrinking World

E-Book
Deliver effective training to a global audience with these strategies and best practices.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Training Manager Tools, Models and Templates

E-Book
These tools, models and templates offer on-the-job support for training professionals.
Learning Technologies

Expert Perspectives on Learning Technologies

E-Book
Learning technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. These insights can help you leverage technology for more impactful training.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Conquer Your Challenges as a Learning Leader

E-Book
Overcome common training challenges, identified by Training Industry research, with these tips and strategies.
Learning Technologies

Expert Perspectives on Training Delivery

E-Book
Learn tips and strategies to improve the way you deliver training to learners across your organization.
Workforce Development

Expert Perspectives on Closing Skills Gaps

E-Book
Learn how to close skills gaps and drive performance through upskilling, reskilling and other L&D initiatives.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Training Request Form

Template
Create your own training request form to clarify goals and improve communication with stakeholders.
Measurement and Analytics

Expert Perspectives on Measurement and Evaluation

E-Book
Measuring impact is a notoriously difficult aspect of the training manager job role. These insights can help you prove training ROI to your stakeholders.
Compliance

Expert Perspectives on Health and Safety Training

E-Book
Learn how to deliver health and safety training that mitigates risk and keeps employees safe.
Leadership

Expert Perspectives on Soft Skills

E-Book
From self-awareness to empathy to communication, learn how to develop soft — or "power" — skills across the organization.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning

Career Pathways in Learning and Development: Perspectives and Strategies for Your Training Career

E-Book
This e-book shares real-world stories of L&D leaders' career paths and offers tips for aspiring training managers.
Learning Services and Outsourcing

Expert Perspectives on Training Outsourcing and Procurement

E-Book
From selecting a vendor to partnering for success, learn best practices for training outsourcing engagements.
Leadership

Expert Perspectives on Leadership Development

E-Book
In this e-book, industry experts share best practices for developing impactful and high-performing leaders.
Content Development

Expert Perspectives on E-Learning

E-Book
Learn how to deliver effective and engaging eLearning experiences to your learners.
Sales

Expert Perspectives on Sales Enablement

E-Book
Learn how to deliver effective and engaging sales training experiences to your learners.