“People are too busy to learn.” Sound familiar? Many of us in learning and development (L&D) will have experienced this problem at some point in our careers.
Being skilled on the line doesn’t always translate into leading successful teams. The end result of good leadership training is better supervisors who can positively influence their teams to meet, and even surpass, production goals.
The challenge for training and workforce development professionals will be to creatively address the need for a larger but qualified workforce pool.
Use a selling skill and ask about learners’ pain points using probing questions.
At WCCO Belting, a decade of exponential growth pushed employee training to the bottom of the priority list.
In recent years, innovation and disruptions have become commonplace across industries. One of the main drivers is technology, particularly in the digitalization of business operations.
It you look at the advances in workforce development over the past 20 to 30 years, you will quickly recognize that almost all of them have been in the name of advancing efficiency, not effectiveness.
Onboarding includes not just helping new hires become productive quickly but also acclimating them to the culture of the organization and helping them feel personally invested in its mission.