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Leadership development encompasses formal and informal training and professional development programs designed to assist employees.
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Tips On Becoming a Better Leader
When you’re talking about LMS, most people just think of the technical side of things. While the majority of LMSs do consist of technology and the efficiency of your platform, there are other dynamics involved. To promote the healthiest training and learning environment, you need good leaders at the helm. Many people will argue that […]
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Financial Services Learning: How to Improve Training
Learning and development (L&D) plans are vital to financial services organizations. From banks and credit unions to mortgage brokers and everything in between, ensuring that your team members are prepared to handle today’s challenges is critically important. Financial services organizations must be prepared to handle any number of threats, from changing tax rules to government […]
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What Leaders Must Know to Lead Effectively in the New Normal
For learning and development to succeed, everyone must be on board with the strategy. In addition, buy-in must extend to the highest levels. Of course, the new normal could be complicating efforts to achieve that buy-in. Between the pandemic, political unrest, market instability, and other factors, leaders may be struggling to keep up. It can […]
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How to Create a Streamlined Approach to Learning and Development
Learning and development (L&D) is a critical element for business success. However, too often, businesses get it wrong. They take a piecemeal approach or shove L&D to the back burner so they can focus on mission-critical tasks, not realizing that learning and development is as crucial as anything else. The result here is a fragmented […]
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10 Tips to Help You Create Continuous Learners
Continuous learning is critically important for today’s organizations. In the past, businesses could afford to hire based on an existing skillset alone. Today, that’s not the case. Increasing global competition, reduced access to important skills, and empowered professionals who are choosier about where they work have changed the situation. One of the most important things […]
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Top-Down Leadership Tips to Support Employee Growth
When you think about employee growth and development, chances are good you immediately imagine your learning management system. Or, perhaps you think about employees pursuing projects that help them grow and develop personally. What you might not think about, though, is how your example encourages growth and development within your teams. The truth is that […]
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Leadership Everywhere: Start Taking Initiative Now
When you see a company’s primary leader being ousted due to some company failure or scandal such as the Wells Fargo fake account debacle, it’s easy to think to yourself, “Whew! I’m glad I’m not a leader!” Upon reflection, however, that’s a bit of a cop-out, isn’t it? If there’s one thing I’ve learned about […]
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What Happens in the Absence of Adequate Employee Feedback
You might think that enough has been written about employee feedback. Surely both leaders and managers have received this message loud and clear, right? And yet according to a study by employee engagement company Office Vibe, 65% of employees want more feedback than they’re getting. In this article, I’ll explore the importance of feedback, some […]
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Corporate Liberation: Freeing Your Team
Corporate liberation, the term coined by authors Brian Carney and Isaac Getz in their book Freedom, Inc., is the idea that control should be shifted from managers to workers so that they are empowered to take initiative in their work for the betterment of the company. Employees of liberated companies are not limited to the […]
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4 Ways to Engage With Your Employees While Maintaining Your Authority
Poor relationships between managers and employees can cause dissatisfaction at work. You know that pit in your stomach you get on Sunday night? Well, you may not get it now, but I bet at some point in your life, you have if you’ve been stuck in a terrible job. How can management help reduce the […]
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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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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 […]
