Most businesses understand the importance of training. However, many still do not measure their ROI, and those that do often use the wrong metrics.
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Companies looking to hire the best and brightest workers from among their ranks just need to understand how this generation’s motivations differ from the generations they are replacing.
Improv—which is grounded in respectful communication, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, personal connection and a shared purpose—can play a critical role in creating a workplace that engages and retains great employees.
Developing an effective onboarding strategy and program can be one of the toughest challenges for a corporate learning and development group. Yet it remains one of the most impactful processes we can influence.
What does the forgetting curve mean to L&D professionals? Does it mean that half our efforts and money go down the drain in just a few days? It’s not that bad. Ebbinghaus also found out that the rate of forgetting is drastically reduced when people have...
If you can add four or five thoughtful additions to your training programs, you can dramatically improve retention. Here are some recommendations.
Imagine that you’ve spent more hours developing a training program than you’ve slept in a year. You’ve consulted dozens of award-winning experts, invested in more books than you can count and scoured your field to create a treasure trove of...
It costs money to train your employees. But in my experience, it almost always costs much more when companies decide not to train their workers. Those organizations are spending more and, in many cases, sabotaging their own success in ways they do not...
Imagine you provide employees with a great seminar on essential leadership techniques. Even if everyone loved it, the sad fact is that no matter what you say, no matter how well you say it, research proves that 90 percent of the content will be forgotten
It would be an understatement to say that the training industry is brimming with new training technologies and tools.