Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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Self-Driving Vehicles: Programming vs. Training
Self-driving, driverless or autonomous—whatever you call it, hands-free driving, which was only recently a science fiction fantasy, has arrived. While we may be able to program cars to drive, however, can we train them to drive like humans?
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Skype Translate: Policy and Training Considerations
At Microsoft’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) laboratory, researchers are test-driving a new generation of natural language processing tools that promise to transform work in the coming decades. Among the most widely publicized and exciting breakthroughs is the lab’s much-hyped Skype Translator, which promises to provide real-time translation to collaborators working across languages, such as English, […]
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Training Remote Work Teams
In the past, employers and employees knew each other, worked in the same office and of course, in the same cultural context and time zone. Today, as remote offices, mobile technologies and peer-to-peer recruitment platforms converge. A growing number of businesses have no physical base at all and in some cases, employers and employees never […]
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Training in the Age of the Internet of Things: Part 2
In an earlier blog post on the Internet of Things, we examined what the Internet of Things is, how it will change work, and its broad implications for education and training. This blog post outlines some of the more specific ways in which the Internet of Things promises to transform education and training in the […]
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Training in the Age of the Internet of Things: Part I
Today, nearly everyone is networked. Indeed, most of us rarely leave home without a mobile device and web access. We’re online all the time and so are our family members. In 2015, parents now track their children’s route home from school remotely and along the way, track missing devices and their human owners. If we […]
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Legal Ground Rules for Screening Employees
Whether your organization decides to carry out a prescreen internally or to hire a third party, it is important to know the ground rules for prescreening employees without stepping across a legal line.
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Employee Screening: Advantages, Disadvantages and Limits
In an earlier blog post, we explored what we might learn from the devastating and, as we now know, intentional crash of a Lufthansa jet in March 2015. As the investigation unfolds, the facts coming to the surface suggest that a more rigorous employee screening and monitoring process likely would have saved the lives lost […]
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Can social media help you do your job better?
Although first and foremost associated with entertainment or socializing with friends and family, social media now pervades nearly all aspects of the modern workplace. From recruitment to training to promotions, social media is an integral part of how people carry out their everyday work, but does social media necessarily help us do our jobs better?
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Lessons from Clinton’s Email Errors
Since it is common to have one’s personal and work email streamed into a single email program, like Entourage, sending work emails from a personal account and vice versa is common. Moreover, at times the line between a personal and work email may also be difficult to discern. If you’re planning a birthday party for […]
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Leveraging Social Media as a Recruitment or Job Search Tool
Two decades ago, recruiting job candidates typically took place in person at a job fair or via a print-based advertisement, usually in a major newspaper. Today, few jobs are found in newspapers and while job fairs still exist, they serve many purposes that extend well beyond recruitment. From employment-focused sites, like Mediabistro and LinkedIn, to […]
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Lessons from the Germanwings Investigation
When a Germanwings plane crashed into a remote mountain range in the Alps, speculations focused first on the possibility that the crash was an act of terrorism and second, on mechanical failure. In the days following the crash, however, the investigation revealed that in this case, neither a political motive nor technical error was to […]
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Lessons from the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Lawsuit
In March, people around the world watched as Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers unfolded in a California courtroom. The details of the case are now widely known, even by people outside the business and high-tech sectors. Pao, now interim chief executive officer of Reddit, alleged that she experienced gender discrimination at […]
