Sticky Notes: Help Wanted: Non-Technical Skills
The technical skill shortage, especially among new young workers, is well documented as a problem (and a training industry opportunity). Less well documented is the steadily growing shortage of non-technical skills, especially among new young workers.
Training Hosts China Summit
Some 500 Training and HR professionals explored the themes of performance consulting, leadership, personnel training, and blended learning during the 2013 Training magazine China Summit held in August at the Shanghai Four Seasons Hotel.
Productivity Coach’s Corner: It’s Not What You Know
When you think about everything you’ve done over the last 12 months, do you recognize the influence of your social network?
Positive Power
Before we can be happy or successful, we need to develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Creating this outcome is not just about spreading happiness but about helping others create a reality in which success (and happiness) is possible.
Weathering the Storm
Despite continued economic turmoil, total 2013 U.S. training expenditures—including payroll and spending on external products and services—remained relatively flat at $55.4 billion (down just slightly from $55.8 billion last year), according to Training magazine’s 2013 Industry Report.
L&D Best Practices: Nov./Dec. 2013
Training magazine taps 2013 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 front-line supervisor development and sales training.
A New Level of Thinking?
Training magazine and Pearson TalentLens research reveals how thinking styles differ by occupational level and industry.
How to Narrow Critical Skilled Labor Gaps
No matter your perspective on the skilled labor gap issue—whether you believe it’s due to the need for more training, increased salaries, or simply the need to relocate skilled labor—our research has found that the skills gap is a reality.
RETAIN to Reskill
Training professionals need to add their perspectives and expertise to Regional Talent Innovation Networks (RETAINs) in their local communities to help the U.S. avoid falling off the looming talent cliff.
Solving Today’s Skill Gaps
In many ways, solving a skill gap is like solving a puzzle—not only do you have to make the pieces fit, you have to make sure you have all the necessary pieces from the get-go.
