Global Organizations Need to Develop a Corporate Language Strategy
When an organization mandates and operates with a corporate language strategy, global leaders are able to communicate with a diverse range of employees and business partners, increasing the sharing of firsthand information, which leads to better decision-making.
Pitching and Productivity
Regular “competitive pitch workshops,” one team up against another, can be a good way of replicating the live pitch experience.
Designing a Successful Online Leadership Development Program
Build organizational strategies and challenges into your online curriculum and reinforce them back on the job. And surround each learner with partners who can support and encourage development.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: CONNECTIONS at FORUM Credit Union
This onboarding program aims to create an opportunity for new employees to connect to the organization, their teammates, and FORUM’s purpose.
What Gets in the Way of a Mid-Level Performer Becoming Great?
In an 18-month study, mid-level sales performers often failed to anticipate customer responses and respond effectively. They also displayed in quickly starting a highly relevant conversation and confidently continuing a difficult conversation.
February 2016’s Top Reads
More than 15,000 business books are published every year—an overwhelming choice for busy professionals. Therefore, in partnership with getAbstract, Training brings you February’s top three business books recommended to our readers.
2 B or Not 2 B a Social Media Zealot
The moral of the social media tale in the workplace? No matter what we write, we can write comfortably, informally, but not carelessly. We need to remember that people beyond our original audience can easily view what we’ve written.
Learning Trends You Cannot Afford to Miss in 2016
These 5 key trends in employee learning align with the lean, quick, and agile methodology companies need to survive in 2016 and beyond.
Mobile Learning Delivery Hasn’t Advanced as Predicted
Some 25 percent of respondents to Brandon Hall Group’s most recent Mobile Learning Study say there is no mobile interaction with learning in their organization. And half of those companies that are using mobile delivery say access is limited and typically only via a mobile browser.
Leading Edge: Creating a Safe Space for Employees
A “safe space” is the office Vegas—what happens there stays there. The space at times becomes a think tank, a place to brainstorm and hatch ideas, or it can be used as a garbage bin to dispose of unwanted burdens that prevent members from focusing on the task at hand.