As an invited speaker with a group of business leaders, I was sharing our (www.TeamTelligent.com) perspective on talent management. As expected with tough audiences, one of the business leaders asked, “In two words, what do you do?” The two words that popped out of my mouth were: “Learning Engineering.” Engineers design, plan, and build according to specific standards and calculations; it struck me that the term was just right. We are engineering learning for individuals and organizations to enable them to achieve their goals and purpose. By helping organizations provide a way to profile leaders, managers, and individual contributors essential to perform, we help individuals at all of those levels understand what is required for a given organization. By facilitating individual learning paths through a career, we are engineering learning to leverage individual talents and to build capability for their career futures. Then on...