April 2020’s Top Reads
More than 12,000 business books are published every year—an overwhelming choice for busy professionals. Therefore, in partnership with getAbstract, Training brings you April’s top three business books recommended to our readers.
Cyber Security Basics All Employees Must Be Trained in
Balance the emphasis on the importance of cybersecurity with a positive demeanor by framing actionable steps in a simple and easy-to-do light, empowering employees to protect themselves and others.
COVID-19: Protecting Your Employees and Business
Guidelines to help prevent the spread of the virus in the workplace.
Service in the Digital Age
We work so hard to make sure we manage our first impressions in person. We focus on our smiles, making connections, acknowledging loyalty, and all of those great things, but why does all of that get left behind with online service?
Business Education for Future Middle Managers (Part 2)
Experiential learning helps managers hone early working skills, but it cannot necessarily address challenges such as demolition, downsizing, workplace trauma, and a professional view of oneself. Business-experienced professors can help ensure middle managers gain such knowledge.
Don’t Let Poor Assessments Bruise Your Bottom Line
Poor assessments can lead to inaccurate employee data, which can have far-ranging consequences for organizations.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: ISHAPED Patient Handoff Tool Training at Nebraska Medicine
The tool focuses on making bedside shift reports more patient- and family-centered while ensuring key patient care information is passed from the nurse completing his or her shift to the nurse coming onto his or her shift.
The Risks and Benefits of “Heat” at Work
“Heat experiences” are high-stress, high-stakes situations that afford massive learning potential. Heat emerges when an organization is moving in a new strategic direction or grappling with disruptive change—like today’s Coronavirus—and the skills, systems, and culture are not aligned.
Not Leader Development—Leadership-as-Practice Development
Leadership-as-Practice Development does not focus on training just the managers; it applies to everyone associated with the practice or project in question. There is attention to their relationship(s), their materials, and the specifics of the context in which they are working.
Now’s the Time for L&D to Lead the Way
L&D professionals need to become the scaffolding to help maximize the learning for all the people put into de facto “stretch” opportunities because of the pandemic.