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Innovation and Creativity Zones and Their Impact on Your L&D Efforts
“Innovation” – it’s one of today’s hottest buzzwords. However, it’s more than that. It represents the goal to which so many organizations aspire, and yet somehow fall short. Often, a lack of innovative capability stems not from missing in-house talent, but from the wrong culture. It also comes from not supporting employees through the right […]
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Are You Missing a Critical Part of Your L&D Strategy? Understanding Strengths Discovery
Your learning and development (L&D) strategy is critical. It speaks to the organization’s ability to compete by developing in-house talent. It addresses crucial skill gaps and helps ensure improved employee retention over their lifecycle. However, despite that importance, there is a good chance your strategy is missing a key component: strengths discovery. It is a […]
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Workplace Resilience: A Key Factor for L&D Initiatives
When you think about characteristics and qualities vital for success in the workplace, what comes to mind? Chances are good you think of having the necessary hard skills, or perhaps it’s doggedness that speaks to you. While employees need a host of different skills and aptitudes to thrive in today’s work world, resilience is perhaps […]
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Turning In-Person Training into Virtual Training: A Guide for L&D Teams
Despite the lingering effects of the novel coronavirus, training and development must go on. Many organizations initially paused those efforts at the onset of the pandemic, but as the new paradigm has evolved, it becomes apparent that they must be restarted. Remote work is the new normal, and we must find ways to change and […]
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Engaging Learners in a Rapidly Changing World: Strengthening L&D from Home
It has historically been challenging to communicate the value and need for learning and development. That goes double for organizations with cultures that don’t value personal and professional development. However, the shift to remote work has ushered in new, unique challenges that all organizations must overcome. It’s a rapidly changing world and to engage learners, […]
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How Coaches Can Help Support Learning and Development Success
“Coaching” in the business realm has traditionally been synonymous with course correction and employee performance reviews. There has been a punitive note to the word, a connection with the idea that coaching is only necessary when performance must be improved. If true turnaround is desired in employee performance, managers as coaches However, when the bigger […]
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How to Make Learning More Continuous and Engaging
Employee learning and development (L&D) is vital for the success of your business. From mandatory corporate training to professional CE and career development, it plays many critical roles. However, it can also be pretty challenging. Many organizations struggle with learning and development. They can’t get their learners to continue their efforts. Their content is not […]
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How to Analyze Your Company’s Culture: The Quest for Better L&D
We’ve talked a lot on this blog about the importance of developing a culture that values learning and innovation. We’ve also discussed some of the negative consequences, both to L&D and to the company as a whole, that stem from having the wrong corporate culture. However, what we really haven’t addressed in any real depth […]
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Learning and Development Tips to Help You Maximize ROI
It would be nice if Learning and Development could exist for no other purpose than to help employees become their best selves. However, it is intrinsically tied to your budget and, if you don’t see the return on that investment you need, it can be tempting to make drastic changes, even cuts to your training […]
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Debunking the Most Common L&D Myths: Building a Better Organization
In the corporate world, learning and development often take a backseat to performance management. Ostensibly, that’s because managing performance has a more immediate impact on success than L&D, which is untrue. That’s not the only myth that might be crippling you with building a better organization with the ability to grow and thrive, either. In […]
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Setting Priorities for Learning and Development
Learning and development initiatives are critical to the success of your organization. They’re also essential for professional development and may even tie into the personal satisfaction of your employees. However, not all L&D efforts have the same value or urgency. You must be able to set priorities and ensure that everything moves forward correctly. The […]
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10 Tips for Your L&D Team: Creating Success through Learning and Development
Are your L&D efforts lagging? Not seeing the traction that you need? It’s not uncommon, particularly today, in this world of remote working as the new normal. Between employees being overwhelmed by working from home to employers scaling back on critical efforts, it can be easy to see your success decline. Thankfully, there are ways […]
