Your people may be engineers, accountants, production line workers or sales people, but they are all consumers too. . They expect things to happen at the touch of a button. And they bring this expectation into their work lives.
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It’s easy to understand why the modern workforce doesn’t get excited about training initiatives. Sure, they are the end consumer and the people organizations want to upskill, but rarely are training initiatives truly about them.
Congratulations! Your business leaders recognize how essential your employee development efforts are to ensuring business success. This may be surprising, especially if your budget was recently cut, but the reality is...
The way people work has changed dramatically. Gone are the days of large, stable organizations and strict 9-to-5, Monday through Friday schedules. Now, people work anywhere they have Wi-Fi.
When we talk about training, three outcomes typically rise to the top as the most important: knowledge, skills and attitude (although some talk about abilities instead of attitude, depending on the source and the purpose).
What comes to your mind when you hear the term “skill up”? For every gamer out there, it may remind you of a time when you “level up” or gain extra skills or armory to defeat an infamous boss or a formidable team in a sports game.
Development doesn’t end when the program concludes; it’s only just begun. Having regular opportunities to practice skills on the job promotes retention.
Identifying how to help your team work more effectively can sometimes seem like the million-dollar question. When looking through leadership theory and strategy, identifying a team effectiveness strategy can feel like a “pick one and let’s see”...
Aligning development plans with targeted business goals can change the nature of performance management and improve the employee experience. At Hitachi Consulting, performance management is an old concept with a new mission: performance enhancement.
Kelly stared at the email she had just received from the divisional vice president. It said, “The top training initiatives going forward will be evaluated for effectiveness, with a report being submitted at the conclusion of each event.”