You’re Wasting Money on Training
Instead of figuring out how much training is wasted on individuals who didn’t learn anything, I want to spend my time designing and delivering great interventions that help individuals and organizations get even better at what they do. So we need to find a way of building in the way we measure success to the actual interventions. Here’s how.
Perceiving Everyday Athenas
Effective male mentors must become alert to stereotypical perceptions of women in the workplace and then find strategies for mitigating their effects on the promising women they champion.
The 6 Habits Every Great Trainer Must Have
Regardless of what field they are in or what they are training, the most exceptional trainers I’ve met share these six qualities.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: Red Roof Inn Inc.’s RED Academy
Learning management system RED Academy has allowed Red Roof Inn to better correlate training initiatives with business metrics such as customer service scores, turnover, and increased revenue.
Be Adaptable—Leadership Lessons from Jack Welch
Cultivate a flexible mindset to embrace change effectively to ensure organizational excellence.
June 2017’s Top Reads
More than 11,000 business books are published every year—an overwhelming choice for busy professionals. Therefore, in partnership with getAbstract, Training brings you June’s top three business books recommended to our readers.
Person Up!
Before you can make any cultural or organizational change, you might have to start with an attitude adjustment.
Cultivating In-House Expertise for Staff-Wide Professional Development
Marketing firm Oxford Communications designed a multifaceted, homegrown professional development program that uses an “employee as educator” approach to foster a culture built on ingenuity, collaboration, and mentorship.
Technical Professionals Still Need Communication Skills
Acknowledge that communication skills are crucial to your professional and personal development. And make it a priority right now to improve those skills.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: Lift-off at Quicken Loans, Inc.
Lift-off occurs monthly during the first week of a newly promoted banker’s move into his or her new role and helps transition from training to the banking floor.
