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6 Rituals to Help You Develop a Culture of Continuous Learning
Your company’s culture is incredibly important. It dictates the workplace experience. It affects the caliber of new hires you’re able to attract. It determines how long employees want to stay with you, as well. Few investments return as powerful a result as creating a continuous learning culture. When your team members know that you are […]
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4 Tips to Help Foster a Culture of Learning and Growth
What’s your company culture like? Is it still growing and evolving? Or has it started to stagnate? Does your company have a culture of learning? Chances are good that you’re struggling with some degree of “culture fade”. It happens, even to the strongest of companies. However, that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing you can do […]
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The Secret to Creating a Company Culture That Embraces Learning
It wasn’t that long ago that the phrase “corporate culture” wasn’t used. However, the concept actually dates back to the early 1950s. Today, it has become a serious consideration as more and more business owners, CEOs, and decision-makers realize just how critical the right culture is to an organization’s success, ability to compete, and overall […]
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How to Improve Company Culture
Having a strong company culture is not merely a good idea, it is essential in today’s business world. You might be in a position where you realize that your company culture needs to improve. Everything that is happening within the company, including the way that employees deal with one another and with clients and customers […]
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Handling Difficult Workplace Situations: Learning to Unhook
If you’re the kind of person who thinks of what you wished you would have said in a particular situation at work several hours or days after the confrontation, you’re not alone. It happens to more people than you think. When the interaction comes as a surprise or in the middle of a high-pressure time, […]
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Business Goals Examples for Employees: Better eLearning
If you want your company’s eLearning efforts to have tangible impacts on the bottom line, the best place to start is aligning training and learning objectives with business goals. This critical alignment task has been mentioned in a variety of past articles, including business goals examples for employees to get eLearning results. Be sure to […]
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Top 10 Bad Manager Mistakes that Make People Quit
Whether you’re an eLearning professional in a large learning department, a techie in the IT department or a number cruncher in the accounting department, just about everyone has had the experience of being the victim of bad management. For some, it becomes so unbearable that they end up quitting. It’s frustrating how often the managers […]
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What Should You Consider Before Firing an Employee?
Laws About Firing Employees There are plenty of laws at the state and federal level that pertain to firing employees. Some states have rigid guidelines and restrictions even above what’s mandated at the federal level. Other states have more lax firing laws, but regardless, there are some general concepts to be aware of. If you […]
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Improving Corporate T&E Compliance
Why Is Corporate Spending Compliance Important? There’s this unfortunate sense that travel and expense (T&E) compliance is either not that important, or not feasible. There’s a misconception that floats around the corporate world, especially in large organizations, that it’s just not a big deal if people are overspending or unaware of what travel and expense […]
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Creating a Learning Organization: How to Foster a Learning Culture
In our previous article, we established why workplace culture is important, explained how fostering a learning culture benefits your company, and provided several different tools you can use to conduct a learning culture assessment in your organization. Now, it’s time to take a closer look at specific actions you can take to transform your company […]
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Learning Culture Assessment at Your Company
In my last couple articles, I’ve established the importance of paying attention to workplace culture, and more specifically the benefits of fostering a learning culture in the workplace. If the general reaction among your employees when it comes to training and learning consists of yawns and eye-rolling, you’ve got some work to do to foster […]
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Workplace Culture: Does it Even Matter?
Workplace culture, organizational culture, corporate culture – however you name it, there are many who question if it even matters. My short answer to this question is YES, workplace culture does matter, but if you need a more convincing presentation of why it matters, then this will be one of the more important articles you […]