McCarthy’s Healthy Best Practice
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.’s “Build For Life” Wellness approach is built on proactive tenets such as training for both awareness and behavior change, and a mix of both positive and negative reinforcement. Results include a 50 percent reduced health-care spending trend.
Flexibility Is Key to the Future of Higher Education
A direct assessment program awards degrees based on demonstrated learning, rather than seat time in the classroom like the credit hour. As a result, this more flexible approach has the potential to significantly reduce the time and cost of earning a degree.
Management Ethics: Choices You May Need to Make
What do you do when you have entered a position under a director but only respect the title the director has achieved and not the individual and his or her ethics/behaviors?
Virtually There: Developing the Competencies of Virtual Classroom Designers
Virtual instructional designers will need to participate as learners in the environment and be trained on how to use the technology to its best instructional advantage.
Problem Solving on a Single Sheet of Paper
The beauty of a one-page problem-solving document is that while an author is using it to explore and learn on their own, the coach can steer them through the process, challenge their assumptions, and open up unseen options.
Brand Moments
Everyday life provides many opportunities to build our personal brands through simple acts. But each act creates an impression in the mind of another, and our value to them is either strengthened or diminished.
What Does Credibility Mean to You?
What credibility really means to you could be viewed differently based upon your own standards and the cultural environment that surrounds you.
Grand Master Certification at La Quinta Holdings
The certification drives customer and employee satisfaction and boils down to what the organization does every day as hotel managers and operators. With everything in its place, it is easier for the team to find supplies and makes it easier for them to do their jobs—ultimately taking better care of guests.
Becoming Border Savvy in a Borderless World
It used to be that our organizations would establish borderlines for us in organization charts and strictly demarcated job descriptions. But in organizations seeking to be competitive in a much more complex and dynamic business environment, we each are called upon to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct boundaries that serve the organization’s purpose at a particular time.
Are Your Employees Unhappy? Here’s How Technology Can Help
Training can provide a chance to engage employees more closely in the organization while giving them greater feedback on what they do. Technology plays a key role as employers turn to the use of corporate intranets, which often combine elements of popular social networks so that workers feel more in touch with their colleagues.