Training Day Blog

Gifting the Un-Giving: Do You Buy Your Boss a Gift?

My favorite holiday celebration/gift idea? To have a company-wide holiday raffle in which the proceeds go to a charity such as Toys for Tots.

4 Leadership Styles; 4 Different Training Needs

Does your company’s leadership development programs offer exercises tailored to individual leadership styles?

Do You Text Your Employees and Job Applicants?

A look at the pros and cons of doing so.

Teambuilding Exercises Can Miss the Mark

Determining what’s OK—and what’s not—when organizing teambuilding activities can be a difficult challenge.

Is Personalized, Adaptive Learning Right for Your Company?

Personalized learning technology has the ability to present learning in different formats depending on what the individual’s performance tells the technology about his or her preferred learning style.

How Are Trainers Doing Salary-Wise? And What Can You Do About It?

It’s important to build self-confidence and engagement in your own development to demand what you feel you deserve.

Turning Diversity into a Diversity of New Ideas

What role do trainers and Human Resources executives play in creating platforms for a more diverse set of voices to be heard, and seriously considered, when important decisions need to be made?

How Much Training Do Employees Want?

In a recent study, 69 percent of employees under age 40 claimed that training opportunities are an important factor in their decision to stay with their current company/position or leave.

Should Companies Excuse Excuses?

The concept of sick and personal days may be too formal and structured for the realities of life today—and actually may inhibit productivity.

Can 360-Degree Reviews Politic-Proof Your Workplace?

Such reviews are especially effective when the reviewers are assured that they can speak freely without their boss being told who said what about him or her.

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