New technologies are rippling through global workforces. In the race to acquire competencies, some companies are turning first to hiring and others to outsourcing. Meanwhile, many employees, especially in remote locations, are left behind or high and dry.
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Many human resources (HR) teams make this error: They focus on training rather than overall development. Is there a difference? Doesn’t training lead to development? Not necessarily; training is often just the tip of the development iceberg.
No organization wants to undergo an intensive initiative to see it fail. One surefire way to ensure your training initiative will exceed your expected returns is to choose a training provider or curriculum that aligns with your organization’s culture.
Mentoring is a great way to develop talent, with benefits for both parties invested in the relationship. It has existed as an informal learning method for many centuries. However, the focus on structured mentoring is a more recent development.
Innovators are often hiding in plain sight. They are critical to any team and company, because they use creativity to significantly improve performance. Discover your innovators, and then develop them in three simple ways.
The world is becoming an increasingly connected place, and establishing best practices is critical to building a global learning organization. Organizations can prevent centralized groupthink using caution when establishing their governance model.
A training professional’s day-to-day responsibilities can become overwhelming, especially when your focus is on onboarding new employees. How can you focus on training the new employees who depend upon you when you have so many other fish to fry?
Coaching, training and selling have many things in common. They are all about focusing on the customer (whether that customer is internal or external), understanding their specific needs, and taking them on a journey of discovery and commitment.
Regardless of where a company is headquartered, people often believe the company and its employees think and function the same way at every location. This HQ-centricity creates cultural blind spots that hinder the success of global implementations.
S&H is partnering with Ardian, a world-leading private investment house, to reorganize its capital and support the development and growth of the company, through a financing operation amounting to 14 million euros.