How the VA Certifies Project Managers
By Margery Weinstein
10 Tips for Leaders to Make Your Meetings GREAT!
By Mark Miller, Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness, Chick-fil-A
Meetings matter. If done well, they multiply our time, increase our productivity, tap into the collective wisdom and creativity of the group, yield better decisions and better results.
Let’s face it—most of the meetings we attend are not the model for productivity and efficiency. Done poorly, they are a colossal waste of time. Here are 10 tips to help your team master a few basics for empowering your meetings, starting today.
3 Steps to Support Virtual Teams
By Meena Dorr, Director, Corporate Relations, MBA@UNC
Training: Mandatory or Not?
By Dan Cooper, CEO, ej4.com
A large organization was talking about expanding its initial entry into e-learning and made a statement common among trainers: “We’re not ready yet to make our training mandatory.”
This usually means they have tried to require training in the past and received enormous push-back from learners and their managers. So they’re twitchy about the whole idea. Typical causes for the push-back include:
The Engagement Problem
By Rohit Bhargava
In 2007, global professional services and recruiting firm Towers Perrin conducted a survey of nearly 90,000 employees in 18 countries around the world. The aim, as it was every year, was to spot some trends in how satisfied employees were with their jobs and what they were thinking. Unlike many other surveys, this was global and reported back on countries individually in the results. What they learned was concerning: The global workforce is not engaged. on the job.
Communication Is the Response You Get
By David Neenan
Trends in HR Software: Implications for Learning
By Dr. Katherine Jones, Director and Principal Analyst, HCM Technology, Bersin & Associates
As Sherlock Holmes says to Dr. Watson, “the game’s afoot!” Sherlock implies excitement, intrigue, choices to be made—and risks to be run. For HR and learning professionals, we can easily suggest the same—the game is afoot as we face increasing change and innovation that has ramifications for the world of training.
Grooming Talent Through Sharing, Not Hiring
By Srinivas Kandula, EVP and Global Head of Human Resources, iGATE
Hiring and training top talent can be a daunting and expensive task. The cardinal rule is that it costs 25 percent more to replace and train new employees, and costs are going up. The latest Trainingmagazine Industry Report saw training expenditures rise 11 percent last year.
Return on Learning
By Frank Lloyd, Associate Dean, Executive Education, Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business
Gurus and Go-Tos
By Bonnie Hagemann, CEO, Executive Development Associates (www.executivedevelopment.com