The Book
The CEO's Guide to Training, eLearning & Work is the definitive guide for senior leaders and learning professionals in the art and science of workplace learning and performance improvement. Will Thalheimer's culminating masterwork shows senior leaders how to gain a competitive advantage through their organization's learning and development efforts. At the same time, the book empowers learning professionals to confidently coalesce around foundational principles, values, and research-inspired best practices. In short, the book enables senior leaders and learning professionals to have a productive relationship focused on leverage points that matter.
The Author
Will Thalheimer draws on three decades at the forefront of the research-to-practice movement in the workplace learning field and on his experiences as a consultant to hundreds of organizations-including such giants as the Navy Seals, Oxfam, the World Bank, Bloomberg, the United Nations, the Gates Foundation, Genentech, Proctor & Gamble, the CDC, MIT, innovative elearning startups, and more.
The Book Design
Designed to be an easy read-many chapters are two pages long-Thalheimer augments his concise hard-hitting chapters with in-depth chapter notes for those who want to dig deeper, learn more, or review the research inspirations for the ideas shared.
Empowering Learning Teams
The CEO's Guide to Training, eLearning & Work not only provides essential wisdom, but it also elevates a new goal for learning teams-creating a competitive advantage for their organizations and learners. With competitive advantage as a guiding purpose, learning professionals can reimagine and energize their practices, build stronger partnerships with senior leaders, and empower themselves to greater autonomy and full effectiveness.
Competitive Advantage
For too long, organizations have accepted modestly good results from their learning teams-and learning teams have acquiesced to outcomes beneath their own aspirations. With this book, Will Thalheimer makes clear that there is another way-and that way enables a competitive advantage.
Testimonials from Thought Leaders
Read this book. Encourage anyone associated with workforce learning to read this book.
-- RUTH CLARK, Co-Author, eLearning and the Science of Instruction.
Another excellent offering from Will Thalheimer... straightforward and practical guidance. Ignore at your peril.
-- ROBERT BRINKERHOFF, Author of Telling Training's Story.
-- DONALD CLARK, Author of Artificial Intelligence for Learning.
Will Thalheimer continues his no-nonsense, no-holds-barred style to speak truth to power.
-- ROY POLLOCK, Co-Author, Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning.
-- RICHARD E. CLARK, Professor Emeritus, USC.
The book's brilliance lies in its clarity and directness. It's a roadmap for CEOs and learning professionals alike.
-- STELLA LEE, Paradox Learning.
Will Thalheimer, PhD, MBA, Consultant, Speaker, Researcher at Work-Learning Research. Will is a world-renowned thought leader focused on research-based practices for learning, work performance, presentations, and evaluation-and an advocate for learning professionals. Through Work-Learning Research (https://www.worklearning.com/), Will empowers organizations to build maximally effective learning-and-performance solutions and strategies. Will wrote the award-winning book Performance-Focused Learner Surveys (second edition) and the CEO's Guide to Training, eLearning & Work: Empowering Learning for a Competitive Advantage (2024). Will created LTEM, the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model and conducts popular workshops like the LTEM Boot Camp. He co-created The Learning Development Accelerator and the eLearning Manifesto.
