Capabilities for Talent Development

Introduction

For more than 75 years, an integral part of ATD’s mission has been to establish standards of excellence for our profession through our competency research. We have witnessed continuous evolutions in workplace dynamics and have watched as technology fundamentally altered how we work. Best practices and expectations for the field have kept pace with changing times, and ATD’s commitment to equipping others to develop talent in the workplace remains strong. Our industry standard–setting research has helped talent development (TD) professionals—along with managers and leaders who foster talent in organizations—assess, upgrade, and expand their functional skills and connect training and workforce development to organizational strategies ...