Cracking the Mentoring Code
Effective mentoring should be easy. But there are four challenges with which mentors must reckon if they are to move from a “block-checking” activity to a growth-producing result.
Partnerships & Alliances – July/August 2014
Sticky Notes: The People List
“The People List” is a running list of all the key people with whom you need to be engaged in a one-on-one dialogue right now.
Building Olympic-Caliber Talent
The Olympics inspire us, with stories of hard-working and talented athletes—dynamic men and women dedicated to their chosen field. As leaders, many of us would give our eyeteeth to have a team of similarly motivated contributors.
Productivity Coach’s Corner: Strive for a Constant State of Improvement
The difference between productive leaders and regular folks is productive people are in a constant state of improvement of themselves, their systems, and their tools.
Recognition Is a Good Investment
How can companies train on the skill of saying thanks for a job well done? There are three components to a training plan for effective workforce recognition.
Thanks for the Measurements, Don
When I first joined Training magazine in 2007, my publisher gave me a stack of magazines to read and strongly suggested I familiarize myself with Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation. Coming from a licensing publication, I had no idea what she was talking about.
Top 10 Hall of Fame Outstanding Training Initiatives (July/August 2014)
For the first time since the creation of the Training Top 10 Hall of Fame in 2008, Training magazine required all Hall of Famers to submit an Outstanding Training Initiative that would be shared with our readers throughout the year. Here are the details of Ernst & Young LLP (EY) and SCC Soft Computer's submissions.
L&D Best Practices: July/August 2014
Training magazine taps 2014 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 mentoring and competency maps.
PART 4: MasTec Tackles the LMS
How this utility infrastructure construction company designed and developed a customized learning management system (LMS) to manage its new training programs.