{"id":24811,"date":"2011-11-02T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=24811"},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:17:55","slug":"the-2011-state-of-the-industry-increased-commitment-to-workplace-learning-green-mcgill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/11\/02\/the-2011-state-of-the-industry-increased-commitment-to-workplace-learning-green-mcgill\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2011 State of the Industry: Increased Commitment to Workplace Learning [Green &#038; McGill]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astd.org\/TD\/Archives\/2011\/Nov\/Free\/Nov_11_Feature_State_of_the_Industry.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The 2011 State of the Industry: Increased Commitment to Workplace Learning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from ASTD.org by Michael Green and Erin McGill<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Despite current economic challenges, senior executives continue to invest in developing their employees and understand that a highly skilled workforce is a strategic differentiator. Data from more than 400 organizations across all major industries demonstrate that learning and development is critical to drive growth and sustain a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The findings of ASTD\u2019s 2011 State of the Industry Report show that organizations are just as committed as ever to learning and development (L&amp;D). ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent about $171.5 billion on employee L&amp;D in 2010. This amount includes direct learning expenditures such as the learning function\u2019s staff salaries, administrative learning costs, and nonsalary delivery costs. Sixty percent ($103 billion) of total expenditures were spent on internal expenses and the remaining 40 percent ($68.5 billion) contributed to external expenses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 State of the Industry: Increased Commitment to Workplace Learning &#8212; from ASTD.org by Michael Green and Erin McGill Excerpt: Despite current economic challenges, senior executives continue to invest in developing their employees and understand that a highly skilled workforce is a strategic differentiator. Data from more than 400 organizations across all major industries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,112,200,7,15,269,118,299],"tags":[659,626,128,569,576,270,120,717],"class_list":["post-24811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-learning-ecosystem","category-lifelong-learning","category-professional-development","category-training-corporate-universities","category-workplace","tag-career-development","tag-corporate-business-world","tag-corporate-training-universities","tag-learning-ecosystem","tag-lifelong-learning","tag-professional-development","tag-training","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24815,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811\/revisions\/24815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}