Upskilling: A Mutually Beneficial Solution to a Growing Skills Gap
By knowing what skills and qualifications employers need in new hires, educators can better prepare the future candidates they’re teaching so they can enter their careers and hit the ground running.
Brick-and-Mortar Stores and Employee Training in the Retail Equation
With the arrival of 5G this year, mobility will play a significant role in shaping the customer experience as it will improve in-store employee training, which can help draw consumers back to shop at physical stores.
How to Attract and Retain Employees with a Successful Remote Work Culture
Communication and collaboration tools, engaging activities, and hybrid working opportunities are key.
No Longer Just for the Overly Ambitious, Lifelong Learning Is Now an Economic Imperative
A three-step process to create a culture of lifelong learning that not only upskills your workforce, but also delivers a great ROI.
The Tech Sector Is Going Backwards on Gender Diversity—Being More Inclusive Will Help
New research from Accenture and Girls Who Code reveals that the percentage of tech workers who were women in 1984 (35 percent) was actually higher than it is today (32 percent).
Training Top 100 Best Practice: HD Supply Facilities Maintenance’s New Associate Orientation (NAO)
Taking place at HD Supply’s Leadership Development Center (LDC) in Atlanta (prior to COVID-19), the NAO program is an in-person, eight-hour experience on an associate’s first day.
Start Projects with a Foundation for Speed
Assigning high-priority projects to project leaders who are not ready for the complexity and importance they were assigned is like giving a bicycle to someone who has never seen one and then expecting them to immediately compete in a high-stakes road race.
Are You Letting Your LMS Decide How You Measure Learning?
Most learning management system (LMS) solutions come with stock reports that allow you to see how people are using the system and interacting with the content. But unfortunately, they provide very little insight into the ROI of learning programs themselves.
Reskilling and Career Mapping During a Pandemic
Protecting the L&D budget is mandatory. Experiential, agile learning is how companies will survive COVID-19.
3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Employee Surveys
Think of your organization’s survey program as not only a valuable tool that helps managers troubleshoot organization challenges and engage with employees to implement improvements, but also as the engine for an HR Analytics program.