ATD Houston 2024 Talent Development Conference

In today's increasingly decentralized corporate landscape, aligning talent development with organizational goals is more critical than ever for achieving sustained success. This session will explore how talent development professionals can empower managers to create effective, high-performing teams while optimizing individual staff management.

• Enhance Team Effectiveness through Manager Empowerment: Equip managers with the essential tools and strategies to build and maintain high-performing teams, fostering collaboration, innovation, and productivity.
• Align Talent Development with Organizational Goals: Discover effective methods for aligning talent development initiatives with broader business objectives, ensuring that team capabilities directly impact organizational success and drive growth.
• Integrate Individual Well-being into Talent Management: Learn how to incorporate a holistic approach to well-being into talent management practices, encompassing physical health, mindset, social connections, nutrition, and career development.
• Promote Inclusivity in Talent Development: Explore techniques for tailoring development programs to meet the diverse needs of early-career recruits, seasoned professionals, and veterans, fostering an inclusive environment that supports comprehensive leadership growth for all.

Get ready to unleash your inner comedian and revolutionize your coaching skills! In this laughter-filled session, we'll dive into improv comedy and discover how its core principles can transform your coaching conversations. Through interactive exercises and engaging discussions, you'll learn how to harness the power of active listening, embrace "yes and" thinking, and cultivate a playful, spontaneous approach to problem-solving. Whether you're an experienced coach or a talent development professional, this session will equip you with a fresh set of tools to build trust, foster collaboration, and inspire positive change in your teams and organizations. So come prepared to laugh, learn, and unlock your potential as a coach!

In this session, you will:

• Master improv comedy techniques like active listening, "yes and" thinking, and accepting offers to transform your coaching conversations.
• Experience interactive improv activities and discussions to gain a fresh perspective on supporting individual and team performance, fostering collaboration, adaptability, and positive change.
• Develop a repertoire of improv-based coaching techniques, strategies for building trust and rapport, and a creative approach to problem-solving.
• Leave with the skills, insights, and confidence to enhance your coaching game, whether you are an experienced coach or a talent development professional.

The human skills necessary for successful collaboration in organizations are essential, perhaps even more so as the future of work evolves into a hybrid model. These skills are unique as they cannot be acquired through a single training course but require constant practice and coaching to achieve mastery. One-to-one coaching with communication experts is a viable solution for many individuals and organizations. Still, this model is difficult to scale, depends largely on the coach's availability, and, in some contexts, may be cost-prohibitive. This session suggests a limited number of digital solutions that enable learners to practice collaboration-related human skills in safe, relevant simulations. These immersive learning experiences incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and other technologies to avoid the temporal and scalability limitations of human coaching. They provide an effective supplement to conventional training.

By the end of this session, you should be able to:

• Identify the top human skills necessary for effective collaboration
• Assess and select AI/VR-enabled learning experiences that strengthen collaboration skills based on organizational context and need