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Employees that are better trained, perform significantly better. Use employee training to ensure your team members are contributing their maximum to your bottom line. A younger generation demands better employee training. Are you listening?
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How to Guide Your Employees Through the Onboarding Journey
The first step to improving your onboarding training is to look at it like a journey, not a race. There are certain phases and points that will be reached, and at those points, new training or information will need to be provided. It will be your duty to guide them through the entire process and […]
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The Pitfalls of Buffet-Style Onboarding Processes
Onboarding is a vast, complicated process that has many moving parts. Too often, companies make the mistake of showing all of those parts to new hires at once, which tends to get a bit overwhelming. It might seem like you’re showing off all these great things when you put out the full platter of your […]
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How to Create Painless OnBoarding Employee Training
The first 90 days of a new employee’s time at an organization can either be beneficial or detrimental. Those three months provide signs into whether the employer will work out, whether the employee will stay at that employer, or whether that employee will be productive. How do you know? Will the employee just come out […]
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5 Ways to Implement Effective Employee Training
Studies show that organizations spend approximately $130 billion annually on employee development. However, talent development is the second most significant challenge for human resources professionals. With about 10,000 baby boomers retiring daily, and millennials well on their way to occupying 75 percent of the workforce by 2025, employee development needs to be effective now more […]
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Using a Learning Management System to Train Seasonal Employees
Summer is almost here, which means employers are looking for seasonal workers in many cases. Using a learning management system can help employers maximize the time seasonal workers are on the job, and below is an overview of some things to keep in mind when it comes to hiring and training seasonal employees.
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Tips for Training Summer Interns Using a Learning Management System
As summer approaches, a lot of businesses are gearing up to have summer interns come onboard. The following is a guide to how to train those interns, and more specifically, how to use a learning management system to deliver training. Training interns is important for a successful program, and it’s valuable for both the interns […]
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Onboarding and Training New Veteran Hires
When a company makes a commitment to hiring employees, the most important elements to ensure their success are onboarding and training. Onboarding and training for veterans needs to be focused on not just ensuring they have the necessary job skills for their new role, but also that they can successfully transition into the private sector. […]
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How To Terminate an Employee the Right Way
The best thing you can do to protect your company is to make sure you’re fully aware of all laws and guidelines that pertain to firing. At the same time, you need to train everyone who could be responsible for firing someone including supervisors, managers, and your HR team. If they’re not trained, and they […]
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How to Proactively Protect Against Workplace Violence
What Is Workplace Violence? Workplace violence has become a huge topic of discussion in the U.S. When we think about workplace violence, we most often think about those high-profile incidents, many of which involve active shooters. While workplace shootings are a component of workplace violence, that’s not all that falls into this category. According to […]
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Creating a Whistleblower Policy and Enforcing It
Creating a Whistleblower Policy and Enforcing It The term whistleblower is one that can have negative connotations from the business perspective in a lot of cases. It can be met with apprehension, and business owners and company leaders tend to think about lawsuits and litigation instantaneously. The idea of encouraging employees to be whistleblowers doesn’t […]
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Effectively Tackling Travel & Expense In Your Business
Travel and Expense Controversies Travel and expense issues are almost always in the national news headlines. One example of where this subject is relevant right now is within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has been criticized and is under intense scrutiny because he charged his wife’s travel to the federal […]
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Small Businesses See Big Gains from Investing in an LMS
Learning management systems (LMSs) have now been widely adopted in large enterprises, but many small companies, including family-owned business, continue to overlook their value. Two assumptions appear to be at the root of the problem. Many small companies don’t think they need to engage in formal training, and others worry that the cost of adopting […]
