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Millennials Might Drive You Nuts, But They May Save Your Company

Millennials are unfazed by new technology or the fast-paced strategic changes your business needs to make because of those new technologies. They learn these new technologies and quickly identify creative ways to adapt it to individual, client and company needs.

Sourcing Big Data Talent

Big Data presents a major opportunity for Training and HR to partner with the C-suite to cultivate a Big Data decision-making culture. You can help drive the business strategy by identifying and developing the human and organizational capabilities that directly support the overall business objectives.

MAPping Talent at CarMax

CarMax’s Management Assessment Program (MAP) is designed to be a predictive assessment of success at the next level. MAP participants ultimately earn a score of “Blue” (highest), “Green” (middle), or “Red” (lowest). Over the last three years, based on Key Performance Metrics, those who score “Blue” at MAP rank in the top three quartiles 73 percent of the time.

Borderless Working: Cultivate Your Sense of Humor

UK-born Terence Brake was used to meeting conversations that followed a sequence of your turn, my turn. He didn’t know how to interrupt without being impolite. Desperate to prove himself in the U.S., he wrote, “My turn,” on a Post-It during one meeting and put it on the end of his nose. After the conversation ground to a halt, he explained his predicament and asked his colleagues to help by asking for his input occasionally.

Case Study: ConMed Leverages Postwire for New Employee Training

ConMed’s Orthopedic Division uses Postwire’s visual content sharing software to support employee onboarding and training, turning a 90-day onboarding process into a two-week virtual boot camp.

5 Things You Need to Know to Motivate Your Workforce

Employees today have changed. They have different priorities, and what makes them happy today is not what we once focused on as employee motivators. To get the most out of our employees today, we have to be in tune with those things they value and they truly want.

Reimagining Performance Reviews

In most organizations there is no correlation between employees’ yearly performance ratings and the results the company actually is experiencing. And that needs to change.

How to Turn a Negative Situation Into a Positive Experience

The way you handle a negative customer experience could be the deciding factor in whether customers remain in love with you, or if they choose to just love you and “cheat” with the competition.

Economical Insurance’s High-Potential Strategy Program

Forty high-potential employees have been selected across levels, functions, and work areas since the program’s inception in a collaborative effort between HR and the business. The program has resulted in the promotion of 16 participants into roles of increasing responsibility.

Welcoming New Co-Workers

We received several reader responses to the challenge we posted in a recent Training Top 125 Best Practices e-newsletter: After the formal orientation process, how can work groups be guided in making new co-workers feel welcome and comfortable?

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