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| American Competitive Initiative – the Administration’s competitiveness proposal |
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| Academy of Human Resource Development – association for professors |
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| ASTD Leadership Conference – annual conference for chapter leaders |
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| Association management system – software for membership records, financials, etc. |
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| Area of Expertise – in ASTD Competency Study: the specialized |
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| ASTD’s Certification Institute |
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| ASTD awards for organizations that are BEST at 'B'uilding talent, 'E'nterprise-wide, 'S'upported |
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| Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. government |
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| ASTD’s Benchmarking Forum – consortium of private and public sector organizations |
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| Business Relations Group (division of Employment and Training Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor) |
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| Executives with "C" in their titles, including chief executive officer, chief learning officer, chief financial officer, chief information officer. |
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| Council for Adult and Experiential Learning |
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| Continuing education unit - a recognized method of quantifying participation in an education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction. One CEU is 10 contact hours spent in such an educational experience. CEUs provide a permanent record of the educational accomplishments of an individual who has completed significant non-credit educational and career enhancement activities. CEUs are especially important to those who seek to maintain a credential. |
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| Chief human capital officers - required (as a result of ASTD's action) in each agency of the U.S. federal government. |
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| ASTD's Certification Institute Board of Directors. |
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| ASTD's Chapter Leaders Community on the website. |
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| Content management system - web development platform that allows users to create, manage, and distribute dynamic, customized, and personalized content through the web. |
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| Council on Competitiveness |
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| Council of Human Resource Management Associations - ASTD's president is a member |
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| Collaborative Opportunities to Mobilize and Promote Education, Technology, and Enterprise Act of 2005 |
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| Chapter Operating Requirements - baseline standards that all ASTD chapters must meet annually to maintain their charters |
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| Certified Professional in Learning and Performance. This certification program is sponsored by theÊASTD Certification Institute.Ê |
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| ASTD's Chapter Recognition Committee that recognizes chapter best practices and administers the chapter awards program. |
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| Customer relationship management - methodologies, software, and Internet capabilities that help a company identify and categorize customers and manage relationships with them. |
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| Canadian Society for Training & Development |
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| CHapter Administration & Membership Program (formerly Chapter Billing Service) - ASTD provides this option to chapters to reduce their administrative responsibilities: membership billing, invoicing, reporting service. |
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| CHapter Incentive Program - revenue sharing program for chapters who promote ASTD products and services |
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| Computing Technology Industry Association |
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| Digital Opportunity Investment Trust |
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| Digital rights management |
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| ASTD;s E-Learning Courseware Certification for asynchronous web-based & multimedia |
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| U.S. Department of Education |
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| ASTD's Employee Learning Week |
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| Electronic performance support system |
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| Enterprise resource planning - the technological backbone of e-business, an enterprise-wide transaction framework with links to sales order processing, production and distribution planning, inventory management and control, finance, and human resources. |
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| Employment and Training Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor |
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| Government Learning Solutions - ASTD's offerings for the public sector (federal, state, and local)" |
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| Global network - ASTD affiliates who meet locally outside of the US. Each has an organizing |
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| U.S. Health and Human Services |
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| Human performance improvement |
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| Human resource development |
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| Human Resource Development Quarterly - research journal co-sponsored by ASTD and the Academy of HRD |
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| Human resource outsourcing |
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| ASTD's International Conference & Exposition |
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| Individual development plan |
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| International Federation of Training and Development Organizations - ASTD is a founding member |
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| International Organization Development Association |
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| Instructional systems design |
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| International Society for Performance Improvement |
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| Integrated talent management |
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| Learning content management system - software application (or set of applications) that manages the creation, storage, use, and reuse of learning content. An LCMS often stores content in granular forms such as learning objects. |
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| Leader Connection Newsletter for ASTD chapter leaders |
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| Leadership Development Team - ASTD committee for chapter leaders orientation and development, and the planning group for the ASTD Leadership Conference |
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| Learning management system - software that automates administration of training. It registers users, tracks courses in a catalog, records data from learners, and provides reports to management. |
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| ASTD's Learning Executives Network |
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| Lifelong Learning Accounts |
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| National Advisors for Chapters - ASTD's advisory body of chapter leaders |
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| National Governors Association |
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| The Dutch HRD association |
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| Occupational Information Network |
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| Office of Management and Budget of the U.S. government |
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| Office of Personnel Management of the U.S. government |
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| Protect America's Competitive Edge |
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| Performance-based training |
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| Performance development plan |
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| Public service announcement |
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| Society for Human Resource Management |
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| Standard Occupational Classification system |
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| State of the Industry Report. Published annually, this ASTD report is the most comprehensive analysis available on employer-provided training in the U.S. Statistics are derived from data gathered from the ASTD WLP Scorecard and BEST awards. |
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| Share Our Success - ASTD program that recognizes and shares chapter best practices |
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| Single Sign-On - a user logs in once to a website and can access multiple sites |
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| Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math |
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| Employer-provided educational assistance. Section 127 of the IRS Code allows employers to provide up to $5250 tax-free (non-job related) educational assistance for under-graduate and graduate courses. |
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| ASTD's flagship magazine, formerly known as Training & Development |
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| ASTD's association management software (database) for managing customers, orders, and events. |
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| ASTD's TechKnowledge Conference |
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| Technology Retraining and Investment Now Act for the 21st Century |
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| An ASTD member-only benefit, Trainlit is the most comprehensive database on workplace learning and performance in the world. It includes more than 20,000 article and book summaries on training, e-learning, human resources, management, and business topics. |
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| Workforce Investment Act of 1998 - $12 billion US federally-funded job training and employment system that grants significant authority to local regions and the private sector to guide public sector education and training programs. WIA allows unemployed, disadvantaged, and incumbent workers to access training grants and employment services through a nationwide system of One-Stop Career Centers. |
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| Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development |
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| Workplace learning and performance |
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