Training Day Blog

An article in The New York Times about Amazon’s workplace details how this famous company often cruelly pushes its workforce to meet its product development, delivery, and financial goals. This seems to be counter to the job of Learning & Development professionals, who aim to help organizations achieve their goals by preparing, guiding, and nurturing their employees.

How Learning professionals can best support managers and employees so they can become more productive.

With workforces still much slimmer than they were years ago, young up-and-comers can be left with few development opportunities as they wait for someone above them to vacate their position.

Wearable technology is a growth area in the world of devices, and potentially can help your company—if you know how to set the right tone with employees.

The training challenge for temporary employees is different from the challenge of training long-term, permanent employees. For one thing, you don’t have as much time.

How can companies make the most of powerful, aggressive personalities while identifying those who have another, dangerous side to their successes?

It seems women tend to use the word, “just,” more often than their male counterparts, leading to communications that have an apologetic or less confident tone.

In addition to the pragmatism of putting the most competent person for any given project in the lead, rotating leadership means all employees eventually are given a chance to prove themselves as candidates for promotion and greater long-term responsibility.

I came across an article last week that got me thinking. The piece, “When Does Workplace Wellness Become Coercive?” resonates with me because I think I have the potential to, myself, become a coercer—and that may not be a bad thing. I have a great idea that will make our population much healthier, but many will be angry with me when I share it: I want companies to receive monetary incentives from the federal government to hire and retain only non-smoking employees.

Training employees on how to fake self-confidence, including honing improvisational, off-the-cuff speaking skills, can create a path for success.