ATD's Action Guide to Talent Development: A Practical Approach to Building Your Organization's TD Effort

CHAPTER 20

Select the Most Effective Formal Learning

Previous chapters prepared you to begin delivery of knowledge and skills. This chapter provides suggestions for the 10 percent—formal learning. It can be separated into three chunks: formal learning in a traditional classroom, various types of e-learning, and all the other formal services, such as college course registrations, certification programs, and MOOCs. (We cover these services in chapter 23.)

You are a trusted advisor to your leaders, who expect you to select the most effective and efficient strategy to encourage learning for your organization.

The Least You Need to Know About Implementing Formal Learning

We need to put learning where the work is.

We develop the capability for our ...