Our development approach is evolving, but the experience driving that evolution reveals insights that can help any organization ensure skills are retained and refined over time. We need to cultivate skills, and we need to make them stick.
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Learning and development (L&D) initiatives are important to employees and vital for businesses. To support them, it’s important for an organization to have a learning culture. Discover four strategies leaders can use to build a learning culture.
How does one go about designing a chatbot? And just how smart can a chatbot be? The primary design sensibility when building your first learning chatbot is to be disciplined in defining the scope of what the chatbot does (and doesn’t do).
As the adage goes, creativity is intelligence having fun. But it’s not just for artists. We are all creative, and the people who tend to be labelled “creative types” are the ones who have made a deliberate decision to spend time cultivating it.
As learning professionals, we know that we are often in the public eye. Much like how leaders must practice what they preach, we must be able to create and use job aids and keep reminders handy to help ourselves — just as we do to help our learners.
Staying at the forefront of change has become an added responsibility of L&D professionals. Understanding the state of the industry and how this may impact your employees and bottom line is integral to running a great training organization.
Today, a business’ reach can span across the globe with manufacturing units, support, warehouses and more. Global interdependence requires a shift toward team collaboration across cultures to sustain today’s technology-enriched business environment.
Bitrix24, a popular free collaboration and workplace productivity platform, has added stress measurement capabilities to its mobile app. It will allow companies and employees to measure daily stress levels in order to maximize productivity.
Your team is growing, and your current managers are overwhelmed. You need to hire and/or promote more managers to support your team. Beware of your first instinct: to promote the best performer on your team or hire the first manager who seems capable.
It was 1997 when a large cow-spotted computer box was delivered to the home of a manager for a global training organization. Telecommuting was rare at the time, yet many of the challenges that were conquered back then are still faced by remote workers.