L&D Best Practices Strategies for Success (July/August 2017)
Training magazine taps 2017 Training Top 125 winners and Top 10 Hall of Famers to provide their learning and development best practices in each issue. Here, we look at PAREXEL International Corporation’s clinical research career paths; Penn Station East Coast Subs’ feedback model; and Signature Consultants’ recruiter training programs.
10 Tips To Manage And Coach Teenage Employees
Teenage employees can be valuable business assets— with the right training and oversight. They also will be the business leaders of tomorrow, so it’s in companies’ best interests to provide a positive workplace introduction.
Tips For Coaching Millennials…And Everyone Else
Most advice about managing Millennials focuses on the wrong things, experts say—often meaningless differences between people rather than the massive number of things we have in common, namely, that we all are individuals who want to grow and feel valuable.
Determining Coaching ROI
Coaching, which gives employees extended feedback and guidance for improvement, can produce measurable results—if it’s delivered and assessed the right way.
Work Team Training And Performance Gaps
New research conducted by Training magazine and The Ken Blanchard Companies finds significant differences between the amount of support high-performing teams receive and the support average teams receive— at both an individual leader and organizational level.
Creating An L&D A-Team
Non-traditional hires can build strong, innovative Learning and Development (L&D) teams, bringing a wealth of skills and perspectives that can help L&D transition from a developer and deliverer of learning to a coach and consultant for the business.
The Myth of the Natural Leader
The best managers are people—natural or not—who learn proven techniques, practice those techniques diligently until they become skills, and continue practicing them until they become habits.
Industry Insight: Three Ways to Make Your Workplace Learning Stick
To effectively reinforce what sales and service professionals learn at work, organizations must insist their training and development initiatives include delivery in bite-sized chunks, a focus on coaching, and investment in sales and service managers.
Your Time to Shine
Performance management is more than a learning tool—it’s a business methodology that can bring L&D to the forefront of achieving business success.
Why Introverts Also Make Great Leaders
Draw upon the strengths of introverted leaders in your midst—they can add a powerful voice to your leadership roster.