Do Your Leaders Have These 6 Timeless Skills and Attributes?
Continuing yesterday’s post, here are six additional timeless qualities that effective and successful leaders own that you’ll want to keep in mind.
Category: Learning & Development
Employees are valuing career development more than ever—it’s a sign that the company is willing to invest in their future. How are businesses approaching training today? What are their pain points, and what topics are being addressed in training?
Career Development, Employee Development, and Leadership Development: What’s the Real Difference?
As a learning and development (L&D) professional, you understand the importance of creating different types of learning and development programs for your organization and promoting them across your organization. But sometimes, terms and titles can get jumbled, and it may become a little complicated to decipher when you should offer what type of program and […]
Leveraging Paid Volunteer Opportunities for Gen Z and Millennials
As Generation Z (those generally born between 1995 and 2010) begin to enter the workplace, they’ll truly shine when they’re offered opportunities to give back to their communities and causes they care about. And Millennials also excel at work when they’re offered opportunities to give back and help others.
3 Timeless Skills and Attributes Your Leaders Should Have
The leaders across your organization can drive your organization forward or they can destroy its goals and ambitions. In fact, finding and developing great leaders for your organization are always the most important and relevant things you should be doing as a learning and development professional.
Temporary Staffing Agency's Mistake Causes Trouble for Employer
Employers are frequently using temporary staffing agencies to fill vacant, temporary, per diem, seasonal, and other positions. But what happens when the temporary agency isn’t complying with state law? Can the employer be liable? In a recent case, a superior court says yes.
Make Sure to Include These Items in Your 2019 L&D Budget
Adding to yesterday’s post, here are some additional items you’ll want to include on your 2019 L&D budget.
What You Should Look for in a Language-Learning Program and Why
Going global? Already there? English is still the lingua franca abroad, but this is taken for granted. Stepping into the ring with a limited perspective will prove detrimental to your current or future international business endeavors. It’s time for the English-only workplace to plug language-training programs into their LMS. Standing out among the competition depends on it.
4 Tech-Related Skills Every Employee Must Have
While every single one of your employees doesn’t necessarily need to know how to code software and websites just yet, there are four tech-related skills that all your employees should have by now.
What to Include in Your 2019 L&D Budget
Did you know that organizations typically spend anywhere between $100 and $1,000 for training per learner per year? And while this amount tends to fluctuate for each organization based on its size and the level of training required per individual learner, it’s easy to see how quickly training costs can add up in just 1 […]
Promoting Employees When There Are No Positions Available
In a previous post, we talked about the benefits to both the employer and the employee of promotions. For the employee, while a promotion comes with greater responsibility, it also typically comes with greater prestige, seniority, authority, and compensation.