Sticky Notes: Teaching-Style Management
While it is critical nowadays to make available lots of easy-to-use online resources so employees can pursue their own self-directed learning, don’t ever fool yourself into thinking you can neglect the human element in training.
Productivity Coach’s Corner: Questions Leaders Ask Themselves
Throughout the week, High potentials and recently promoted managers are watching everything you do. They see every meeting you arrive at a few minutes late; every e-mail you send after dinner or on the weekend; every project or task you take on that should have been delegated.
Tech Talk (Sept/Oct 2016)
Find out about the latest advances in training technology.
Products and Services (Sept/Oct 2016)
The latest products and services launching in the training industry.
Partnerships & Alliances (Sept/Oct 2016)
The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.
CHROs and Predicting Future Skill Needs
The number of Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) using predictive analytics to manage workforce issues has begun to rise, according to an IBM Institute for Business Value study, Redefining Talent: Insights from the Global C-Suite Study—The CHRO Perspective.
5 Factors to Consider for a Successful Virtual Instructor-Led Training (ILT) Event
These include: creating an equal environment; prepping the content, instructor, and student; and supporting the event.
Making Your MOOC
My hat is off to those who develop and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to participants scattered around the globe—and the IT professionals who provide technical support.
Top 10 Hall of Fame Outstanding Training Initiatives (Sept/Oct 2016)
Each year Training magazine requires all Training Top 10 Hall of Famers to submit an Outstanding Training Initiative that is shared with our readers in a print issue. Here are the details of Booz Allen Hamilton's "Tech Tank" and Farmers Insurance's "Bring the U to You."
L&D Best Practices: Strategies for Success (Sept/Oct 2016)
Training magazine taps 2016 Training Top 125 winners and Top 10 Hall of Famers to provide their learning and development best practices in each issue. Here, we look at Mariner Finance’s Manager Development Program for high-potential employees.