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Is Your Campaign Team Ready? Training Under Pressure
Chances are, you are not a presidential hopeful, but even if you aren’t, you likely have something to learn from how campaign teams are onboarded and trained. A recent article in the New York Times described campaign teams as the “ultimate start up,” and there is some truth to this claim. Successful campaign teams need […]
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The Uber Decision: Training and the 1099 Workforce
For several years now, the popular peer-to-peer car service Uber has been gaining popularity and raising controversy. In short, Uber has attempted to maintain the advantages of working with contractors (e.g., not offering health benefits or providing job security) while treating their contractors much like employees (e.g., setting prices and dictating interactions with customers). Last […]
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The Multigenerational Workforce: Part IV
In the previous three posts, we explored different segments of the four-generation workforce: Older workers (65 to 75); Millennial workers (15 to 35); and Generation X to late Boomer age workers (36 to 64). In this fourth and final post, we examine how to retain and make the most of a four-generation workforce.
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The Multigenerational Workforce: Part III
In this post, the third of four on how to tap into your multigenerational workforce as a training resource, we focus on the core of today’s workforce—Generation X to late Boomer age workers. The majority of today’s workforce is either part of Generation X or the late generation of Boomers—in other words, they were born […]
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The Multigenerational Workforce: Part II
In this post, the second of four on how to use a multigenerational workforce as a training resource, we focus on the workforce’s future–Millennnials or people who are now between the ages of 15 and 35. As discussed in last week’s series of posts on summer jobs, while young workers, especially very young workers, can […]
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The Multigenerational Workforce: Part I
In this post, the first of four on how to use a multigenerational workforce as a training resource, we focus on the workforce’s most rapidly growing demographic: workers age 65 and 74.
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Learning Innovation Part III: How to Ask Great Questions
Everyone wants to be more innovative in their work, and in today’s business world, being innovation is increasingly becoming something that is demanded of everyone, including learning professionals. In the first two articles of this series I looked at what happens when we don’t ask questions, as well as what gets in the way of […]
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Learning Innovation Part II: The Importance of Questions
In the first article on this series about innovation, I presented a simple definition for innovation from author Stephen Di Biase and the serious consequences that can result when we fail to ask the right questions at the right time, including the sinking of the Titanic and the Challenger space shuttle explosion. As you can […]
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Summer Jobs: Training for the Future, Part 3
To cap off our three part series on summer jobs, we asked four adults at different stages in their careers to reflect on their best and worst summer jobs and to explain how these jobs did or did not train them for their current careers. Below are just a few highlights.
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Learning Innovation Part I: Setting the Stage
As learning professionals, you are already all too familiar with the pressure you feel to be increasingly innovative in your work. But have you ever stepped back to think about what innovation really is, and what you can do to boost your own innovation? Many people consider innovation to be synonymous with creativity. While being […]
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Summer Jobs: Training for the Future, Part 2
In this post, the second of three posts on the topic of training and summer jobs, we explore why organizations should train summer workers and consider some of the short- and long-term returns on investment.
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Project Management for Learning Professionals: The Charter
Each learning initiative, program, course, or module developed in your company’s learning department should be thought of a discreet project that needs to be well-managed in order to achieve the desired outcomes. The place to start when a new learning project comes your way is with a document called a Project Charter. Getting this right […]
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