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Training Today: Righting Engagement Wrongs
By Sebastian Bailey, Ph.D., President, Mind Gym, Inc.
Training Today: Products and Services (July/August 2013)
>>Leadership IQ developed a new HR metric that links employee engagement survey scores with performance appraisal ratings. By identifying statistical relationships between engagement and appraisal scores, Leadership IQ is able to make predictions and recommendations about high-performer turnover, low-performer accountability, middle- performer development, and more.
Manager Meetings & Motivation
By Dr. Drea Zigarmi, coauthor of “Achieve Leadership Genius” (2007) and “The Leader Within” (2005), and a founding associate of The Ken Blanchard Companies; and Jim Diehl, Dobie Houson, and David Witt, contributing authors and practice leaders of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ research into the factors that create a passionate and engaging work environment
STEP UP!
How best to motivate employees and organizations to work together on career development and skills training.
No More Revolving Door
By Margery Weinstein
Finding the right employees is a daunting task. It includes hours spent poring over resumés and much time spent on the phone and in face-to-face interviews with candidates, not to mention what sometimes amounts to months of training. The investment made in recruitment and training easily adds up to thousands of dollars for each new employee. With so much at stake, many companies—especially those in industries susceptible to turnover—are looking for new ways to keep thriving employees in place.
L&D Best Practices: July/August 2013
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
By Sean Ramage, AVP, Talent Management, CarMax
CarMax is the nation’s largest retailer of used cars. Headquartered in Richmond, VA, we operate more than 120 used car superstores across the country and have sold more than four million cars. CarMax is a member of the Fortune 500 and a TrainingTop 125 winner.
A Feel for the Job
By Margery Weinstein
A recent Columbia University Business School study found that people who rely on their feelings and intuition make more accurate predictions and do better at their jobs. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. Training can help, particularly in teaching people how to slow down, increase self-awareness of internal energy processes, and find their connection to the world and the universe around them.
Soapbox: It’s All About the Manager
By Ross Tartell, Ph.D.,Technical Training and Communication Manager – North America, GE Capital Real Estate
Business spends billions of dollars on training—more than $55 billion in 2012 alone, according to Trainingmagazine’s 2012 Industry Report. But does this enormous investment produce the desired results? Many would say no, a perception buttressed by the fact that 80 percent of training content is not applied to the job.
Soapbox: Riding the Technology Wave
By Marty Nowlin,Vice President, Human Resources - North America, ManpowerGroup
We are living in a time when the world of work is changing, when the only thing we can be certain of is uncertainty. These changes have affected the workplace and have led to the evolution of what we today call The Human Age.
Skills Gap Part 2: Schooled on Skills
Corporate/academic partnerships may be a big part of the solution to the skills gap. The key to success lies in understanding the challenges, choosing the right partners, and measuring effectiveness.