Corporate Learning and Development Books & Articles

Books

L&D’s Playbook for the Digital Age

Brandon outlines why corporate learning and development needs to reorient itself for the digital age and he lays out a tactical playbook for you to use and adapt to your own L&D practice which will position you for success in the digital age.

Through case studies, real-world examples, and thoughtful strategies for how you can calibrate to the evolving needs of the workplace and the workforce, Brandon provides practical approaches to help you rethink, rescope, and reinvent your approach to building a capable workforce for the 21^st century.

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Learning in the Age of Immediacy
5 Factors for How We Connect, Communicate and Get Work Done

Brandon discusses how the five edge technologies (automation, the cloud, mobile, big data, and the Internet of Everything) are impacting corporate learning. Through case studies and interviews with industry experts, he shows how these technologies affect training’s design, delivery, and evaluation.

He provides practical advice to integrate these technologies into your learning strategy, helping you answer important questions along the way:

What will the workforce you support look like in the next several years?
How will you work in the streaming economy the cloud has introduced?
Do you have a strategy for mobile learning? And how will you use the emerging practice of data science?

Available on Amazon. Read a chapter now.

Book Contributor

Leading the Learning Function
Tools and Techniques for Organizational Impact

By MJ Hall and Laleh Patel

“Drawing upon firsthand experiences and insights from senior practitioners, Leading the Learning Function: Tools and Techniques for Organizational Impact offers best practices, tools, techniques, and processes that successful business leaders use to develop, build, and implement their personal leadership skill sets.”

Available on Amazon or direct via ATD Press

ATD’s 2020 Trends in Learning Technology

By Justin Brusino

“ATD’s 2020 Trends in Learning Technology collects insights about the latest emerging tech and trends that are transforming the talent development profession from top experts. They give much food for thought about how talent development professionals should embrace, test, and adopt technology to advance their careers and organizations.

Capping off the volume is a chapter on L&D’s role in the changing, technology-driven business landscape by Brandon Carson.”

Available on Amazon or direct via ATD Press

Articles

Learning & Development Articles on LinkedIn

Brandon writes about current industry trends, the evolution of work and learning in the digital age, and other topics of interest for L&D practitioners and leaders.

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