How to Train Remote Employees Effectively
“Thinking outside the box” means to think creatively for a new solution to an old problem. It was a creative metaphor when it first emerged in common use in the late 1960s. Fifty years later, the expression has become a cliché.
When it comes to converting training for the online environment, webinars are quickly becoming the …Read More
The 3 Best Types Of Training Methods For Employees
What do you do when you have several hundred or thousand people around the country that you need to train? If you were living in the 1980s, the answer was simple: Fly them to a central point and offer face-to-face training. By the end of the century, the answer was blended learning: For the easy …Read More
Top 3 Engaging Training Activities For Employees
Since the 1990s self-paced (asynchronous) online learning has seemed like Camelot for corporate training departments: It is the mythical, low-cost, low-interference way of training employees to increase productivity or comply with regulations. Although 90% of companies now use some form of online training, self-paced elearning lags behind other forms of online learning. Why? Quite frankly, …Read More
The 5 Signs Of A Bad Trainer at Work
The good news for training professionals is that more and more companies are seeing the value of investing in training. According to a 2015 Deloitte University study of over 3,000 business leaders globally, 85% felt that “learning” is “important” or “very important” to their business’ success.
The bad news is that those who are responsible for …Read More
How to Choose The Right Training Provider for Your Company
Airfares are skyrocketing. Budgets are dropping. Safety threats hover at high levels. Free time is shrinking. How is an organization supposed to train its people with all these growing constraints? Macro-, micro-, mini-learning, WBT, CBT, ILT: The training jargon goes on and on! How is a project manager or HR professional supposed to pick the …Read More
10 Tips for Improving Employee Time Management
If you want to enhance your employees’ time management skills, the process is simple: send them to the training provider that offers the best value for a generic course. Hundreds of providers do a good job at conveying well-tested information. But what if you want to teach your employees about a new policy, process, or …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 more like “The training was interesting but I’m not sure it will really work in my situation.”
Is the problem really that the training was …Read More
Microlearning vs. Macrolearning: Which Is Right for You?
Women’s fashion in the 1800s was characterized by maxi-dresses which came all the way to the ankles. By the 1940’s, skirt lengths crept to mid-calf with the introduction of the midi-skirt. The 1960s continued the upward climb with mini-skirts that sat mid-thigh. These days, any length is acceptable, including the hybrid hi-lo: short in the …Read More
Top 10 Management Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
A 2014 study conducted by Adecco revealed that 92 percent of US executives believe that the American workforce suffers a skills gap. Surprisingly, 44 percent of the executives believe that the biggest gap was in the soft skills: communication, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. Only 22 percent felt the gap was in the technical skills. In …Read More
How To Network In 5 Easy Steps
When it comes to preparing us for adult life, schools do a pretty good job. We learn basic skills like reading, writing, and mathematics and advanced skills like critical thinking, creative thinking, and public speaking. But we never learn to network. Networking, according to Lynne Waymon in Make Your Contacts Count, is “the deliberate process …Read More