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The results from the most recent survey conducted by Gallup show that fewer than 1 in 3 or 30 percent of American workers are committed to the success of their organization and are engaged in their work. And 1 in 5 workers are actively disengaged, actually working against their organization, bosses, or both. That lack of engagement costs the U.S. economy about $370 billion in lost productivity annually.

An Integrated Talent Management Framework (ITM) is not about acquiring, developing, and retaining your workforce. It is all about creating a winning organization by institutionalizing integrated talent processes across your entire organization. Learning and Development is an integral part of this framework and must be fully integrated with talent management to optimize your business results.

People are not things, nor are they assets. Assets are objects that businesses consume, depreciate, and write off over time. People are flesh and blood, emotional, human beings. Leaders need to understand this truth and lead accordingly.

The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.

Training magazine taps 2013 Training Top 125 winners and Top 10 Hall of Famers to provide their learning and development best practices in each issue. Here, we look at front-line supervisor development and sales training.

Training magazine and Pearson TalentLens research reveals how thinking styles differ by occupational level and industry.

No matter your perspective on the skilled labor gap issue—whether you believe it’s due to the need for more training, increased salaries, or simply the need to relocate skilled labor—our research has found that the skills gap is a reality.

In many ways, solving a skill gap is like solving a puzzle—not only do you have to make the pieces fit, you have to make sure you have all the necessary pieces from the get-go.

Getting the training mix right continues to be a challenge, from deciding who to train, how to train them, and evaluating the results.

By Tim Houlihan, Vice President, Reward Systems, BI WORLDWIDE It’s no secret that to maximize results you have to drive focus, support personal goal setting, and facilitate emotional commitment in a system with transparent measurement and relevant feedback. Motivation isn’t enough.