Less Talk; More Activity!
Trainer Marie sighed with relief as the last participant in her Time Management course left the room. That was one of the harder classes she had ever taught! She felt …Read More
The Training Lifecycle: 5 Steps to Successful Workplace Training
It’s easy to think that training employees is simple. Just have a subject matter expert pull together some PowerPoint slides about the main points of the topic. It should take …Read More
6 Clear Signs of Bad Workplace Training
The good news for training professionals is that more and more companies are seeing the value of investing in training. According to LinkedIn’s 2023 Workplace Learning Report, 83% of organizations …Read More
What Is the Cost Of Training Employees?
Training is a foundational step in fulfilling long-term business goals. By providing the training to close skill gaps, you’re developing employees for their benefit and yours.
A 2023 study found that …Read More
How to Choose the Right Training Provider for Your Company
Training employees can feel like an impossible task in the current climate. Airfares are skyrocketing, budgets are sparse, and safety threats remain at high levels. To top it all off, …Read More
5 Best Employee Training Delivery Methods For Your Business
What’s the best course of action with several hundred people in the country that you need to train? If you were living in the 1980s, the answer would be simple: …Read More
Top 6 Engaging Training Activities For Employees
Well-executed activities can elevate your employee training. Whether it’s communication skills, leadership skills, or any other subject, training activities can help engage employees and support the absorption of key concepts …Read More
9 Expert Tips for Training Remote Employees Successfully
9 Tips for Successful Virtual Training
Virtual training provides a wealth of unique challenges, the biggest of them being that the world is now so comfortable attending online training that they …Read More
The Difference Between Coaching and Training
We’ve all heard it. We might have even said it. It usually sounds something like, “This training was no good—people are still doing things the wrong way.” Sometimes it sounds …Read More
8 Management Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
Recent studies from Gartner and LinkedIn highlight employee skills gaps as one of the top contenders for the 2023 employee crisis. Between the great resignation, talent shortages across many sectors, …Read More
How to Build Work Community: A Step-by-Step Guide
People are funny. They are filled with contradictions they don’t even realize, and these are woven into our workplace communities.
On the one hand, Gen X’ers and older employees feel that …Read More
Top 5 Benefits Of Training Programs For Employees
During the two years of the global COVID-induced lock-down, the world went virtual: Virtual reality, virtual training, virtual workplaces, virtual live performances. At first, the world wondered, “Would it work?” …Read More
5 Proven Tips For Managing Virtual Teams
In 1960 Douglas McGregor published his seminal business management book The Human Side of Enterprise, in which he identified two basic types of managers: Theory X managers had a negative view …Read More