Training Day Blog

Do Your Employees Have Better IT at Home?

How important is it to your company to provide up-to-date and efficient digital systems to employees and train them on such systems?

Self-Regulated Vacation Time: Can It Make Better Employees?

What are some of the barriers to implementing a self-regulated vacation time system, and how can training help get around those challenges?

Rejuvenation Space: Does Your Office Have—or Need—One?

Are your employees too nervous to take an hour away from the office and work-related communications during the workday?

Mending Meetings

How do you train managers to run meetings? What are your top tips for preparing managers to lead effective meetings that result in projects being successfully completed on time?

Is Lack of Ambition a Bad Thing?

What is your company’s ideal employee? What characteristics are most important? How important do you consider dynamism and ambition?

How Well Do Your Employees Communicate?

Do you provide communication training to employees? If so, what does this training consist of?

Termination Training: How Long Should It Take to Fire a Problem Employee?

What kind of training do you give managers to ensure termination of problem employees goes smoothly and quickly?

Can Scheduled Playtime Boost Productivity?

Do you support full access to social media and entertainment Websites in your office, including the company facilitating related get-togethers in conference rooms? Does this help or hurt employees? Why?

Do Mothers Make Better Employees?

Do you make use in training programs of the skills employees gain as parents? Are those lessons often a good place to begin conversations about interpersonal and management challenges?

On the Move: Our Increasingly Temporary Workforce

Does your company use temporary employees? If not, why not? If so, how do you integrate them with your full-time, permanent employees to ensure uninterrupted productivity?

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