Breaking Bad Performance Management Habits
Enacting positive change does not require an overhaul of the performance management system. In the long term, it may be worth making more fundamental changes to streamline your system; however, there is no need to wait for these longer-term changes to happen. Take action today by kicking three bad habits that hold back your organization.
Time to MOOC Your Corporate Training
Corporate MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) or online learning portals offer skill-based courses that act as self-paced and on-demand miniature sessions and workshops. It’s learning at your own pace, where and when it’s convenient for you and on the platform of your choice (desktop and especially, mobile).
Strengthening Darden’s Diverse Pipeline
Full-service dining company Darden recognizes strength in diversity. As such, Darden provides targeted development for women and minorities through a variety of external conference, partnerships, and development opportunities.
Developing Learning Programs for Multicultural Audiences
Tips to consider when localizing your e-learning programs and assessing the cost, schedule, and consumption goals of your courseware. Taking care with these issues upfront will give your project a higher possibility of success.
August’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 August’s top three business books recommended to our readers.
Research Study: Social Learning Gains Momentum
One-quarter of organizations of survey respondents are engaging in truly “social” media for learning. They are leveraging things such as blogs, discussions, and other tools to make it easier to connect and share.
5 Tactics to Enlist Support to Advance Your Job Search
Often, executive positions slip through candidates’ fingers because they weren’t prepared to answer a question on the spot or they forgot who they met at a networking event. With these tools and resources, you’ll be able to avoid such faux pas, advance your search faster, and improve your chances of landing an executive position.
BP’s Petrophysics Accelerated Development Program
Petrophysics ADP was designed to develop and renew competencies critical to the description of oil and gas resources on all BP assets. The program was designed to enable petrophysicists to become true performers within two years.
Merging Executives into the Matrix
In times of consolidation within industries, many experienced leaders need career support and new strategies.
Re-Energizing Career Management
Were you to be invited by your line manager to jointly explore how the organization matches up against your personal ambitions and how you see your career developing, what would be your reaction? And as a line manager, how would you feel about initiating such a dialogue?