To BYOD or Not to BYOD
Most smart phone users check their phones a whopping 150 times a day, 100 hours of video per minute are uploaded to YouTube, and tablet shipments surpassed desktop PCs and notebooks in fourth quarter 2012, according to The Meeker report.
Do You Have a TalentCommunity.com?
Reaching out to viable job candidates via online talent communities is a way to sharpen your recruitment and promote your company’s brand message via social media.
Honing the Digital Edge in China
This is the third of a three-part series of articles on business challenges and opportunities in Asia and how Swiss-based pharmaceuticals and life sciences company Novartis’ learning and leadership development programs are helping address the myriad issues.
Skills Gap Series Part 4: The Tech Factor
By Lorri Freifeld
Technology isn’t the silver bullet solution to the skill gaps—technical, leadership, soft skills, and more—many companies continue to face. But it can help to narrow the distance between the skills employers seek and the skills employees bring to the table.
Games & Simulations 2013: Is 3-D/Virtual Training Dead?
Just a few years ago, the training world was abuzz with the tantalizing possibilities of 3-D/virtual worlds. But today, the buzz seems to have died down to a soft murmur. Has 3-D taken a backseat to other training methods?
Games & Simulations 2013: 3-D in Action
By Gail Dutton
CASE STUDY #1
U.S. Army: Teaching Peacekeepers to ID Social Networks
When young peacekeepers enter a village in any of today’s war zones, the societal norms they grew up with often are no longer relevant. Despite the culture shock, they need to quickly build relationships with locals and identify potential friends and foes accurately.
L&D Best Practices: September/October 2013
ONBOARDING GAMES AND SIMULATIONS
By Kerry Klein, Leadership Development, Deloitte Services LP
Delivering an Answer for Skill Gaps?
Research shows some disconnects between the types of training delivery respondents felt were most effective to bridge skill gaps and the types of training delivery most utilized.
Training Today: 5 Gamification Pitfalls
By Whitney Cook, Account Manager, Inward Strategic Consulting (http://www.inwardconsulting.com)
Top companies all over the worldare adopting gamification into their core business strategies in order to drive engagement for employees, customers, and partners. But there are some unexpected pitfalls. Here are the Top 5 to watch out for
Have You Achieved Your 2013 Goals?
By Jason W. Womack, MEd, MA We’re about to start the fourth quarter of 2013, and I need to ask: Are the goals you set at the beginning of the year on track for success? The other day I was on the phone with one of my mentors and he told me, "You need to build more pauses in your life."