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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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Making the Grade: Food Compliance and Training
In an effort to ensure that all food service establishments from bars and bistros to doughnut shops and diners are in compliance with health regulations, many major cities have introduced letter-graded inspection systems. While the systems are meant to encourage restaurants to comply with health standards, this approach to compliance has drawn criticism, especially from […]
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Aligning Compliance and Training Efforts
In 2014, the Wall Street Journal described compliance officer as one of the “hottest job in America.” Notwithstanding the hyperbole, there’s no question that the demand for compliance officers continues to grow and so does the compensation for compliance officers. While compliance officers and other people who address compliance issues in the workplace (e.g., construction […]
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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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Recruiting and Training Transit Workers in the 21st Century
While some transit jobs, such as train operators, continue to go into decline, the demand for bus, rapid rail and subway operators, especially in urban areas, continues to rise. The growing need for urban transit workers is driven by two factors. First more people are moving back into city centers and as a result, they […]
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The When and How of Building a Branching Scenario
Branching scenarios are a highly effective component of many learning management systems (LMS), but we have found there are some common questions about building branching scenarios. How to know when they’re appropriate to use and how to get started building one that works? What is a Branching Scenario and When Is it Helpful? First, the […]
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Tackling Challenges: 6 Steps For Engaging A Difficult Audience
There are a number of reasons your corporate training and development programs may fail, and one of the biggest and most common problems often boils down to your inability to engage a difficult audience. A difficult audience can be the result of anything from the lack of a corporate learning culture, to communication or educational […]
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Gamification: Avoiding the struggle with employee engagement
One of the biggest complaints employers have in terms of training and development is an overall lack of engagement on the part of employees. It is difficult to increase the level of engagement employees feel toward corporate training materials, regardless of how important the information may be, and employees who do not feel engaged tend […]
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Why Analytical Skills Training Is Growing
We live in the information age, when data flows freely and in all directions at a finger’s click on a keyboard. But as more and more businesses are discovering, having great data is not the same thing as using great data effectively. That’s why an increasing number of corporations are delivering analytical skills training through […]
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Employee Training and Startups: Start with Function
Sir Richard Branson doesn’t mince words about the importance of training in startup businesses. In a blog posting called How to Train Your Employees published on www.entrepreneur.com, the founder of Virgin Group with its 400 companies around the world lays out his strategy: “The first goal of any new business is simply to survive. One […]
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How Online Employee Training is an Essential Startup Investment
Startups should invest in customized online employee training programs to clearly communicate expectations, goals, mission, values, job roles and more. Failure to train from day one is costly in three key areas: Productivity – According to Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel and author of High Output Management, training is the management activity that gives you […]
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5 Innovative Ideas for Conducting New Hire Orientations
When new employees come into a company, it is up to human resource professionals to conduct new hire orientations. Orientations of this nature bring the new employees up to speed on the culture, policies, and procedures of the company. Rather than host a run-of-the-mill orientation, use some of these innovative ideas to add some fun […]
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How to Train Employees: Smart Approaches to Training Employees
Learning is an ongoing process in life. This is just as true in your business life as it is in your personal life. Sending employees through an ongoing learning process is where training comes into play. Training allows you to develop employees in their jobs, careers and skills so that they can be a greater […]
