10 Talent Development Articles to Leave it Better Than you Found it

Quick post this week due to a well deserved vacation to the Jersey shore with my family.  While walking the beach with my son, I found myself picking up some small pieces of garbage out of habit.  It got me thinking about something a friend of mine passed on to me while teaching me how to fly fish.  "Leave it better than you found it".  In a nutshell, while you are out enjoying nature do what you can to clean up after those who have come before you.  

I started thinking about how this saying applies to different aspects of my life.  In the context of this blog, it touches on how I've left the various companies, roles, projects, and teams throughout my career.  How have I left them better than I found them?  

Some examples would be implementing Kirkpatrick's methodology for evaluating projects, creating highly rated tutorials and courses for an educational university site, successfully onboarding a new Instructional Designer, running a learning hackathon, or helping to build and support a great team of learning professionals.

Even though I was on vacation I couldn't resist checking my feeds and it was a great two weeks for articles and posts shared in the Talent Development field.  If you are looking for ideas on how you can add lasting value to your organization, read on! 

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1. What to do if they just want awareness - Cathy Moore explains how to support clients who want to train for "awareness".
2. Why 2020 Should be a Breakout Year for Training, Productivity And Engagement  - Greg Furstner discusses how the C-suite is changing its perspective about the value of learning.
3. The Only Thing More Important Than Product/Market Fit - Nobl Academy explains how developing the right culture supports product delivery.​
4. The Limited Role of Evidence in Ed Tech Adoptions - Lindsay McKenzie writes about how higher education institutions are investing in education technology without supporting evidence that it improves student outcomes.
5. The Business Roundtable Manifesto:  What Should CEOs Do? - Josh Bersin explains how companies can follow through on the commitments made during the recent business roundtable manifesto.  #1 is to invest in their people.
6. Future of Work Requires Leaders Who Value Learning in the Flow of Life - Amy Titus discusses how we need to incorporate learning into our flow of work and life.
7. Social Success at Work - Todd Dewitt launched a LinkedIn Learning course on how to build social skills at work.
8. Why Failure is the Best Learning Tool of All - Debadrita Sengupta explains how failure creates learning and growth.  Checkout my post on what to do when facing failure.
9. Five More L&D Books for Learning Professionals -  Looking for some more reading on L&D topics?  Connie Malamed reviews five new L&D books!
10. The Lowdown on Communication, Before, During and After Training - Kiara Williams gives some great tips on how to get the most out of your learning solutions with planned communications and check-ins.