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The ROI of Training Contingent Workers
Is it worth while investing money in contingent workers? If so, how much? If a contingent worker will only be on staff for two weeks and their level of responsibility is low, it follows that one’s training cost should remain as low as possible. By contrast, a worker brought on board for a short period […]
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The ROI of Learning Part 4: Methods
I used three different articles to tell you why calculating ROI for your learning efforts is important to do, what gets in the way of making it happen, and things to keep in mind as you approach this critical process. Now it’s time to get into the nitty-gritty details of how to do it.But before […]
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Measuring the Impact of a Contingent Workforce
Today, more and more organizations are relying on contingent workers. By definition, a contingent worker is anyone who works for an organization on a non-permanent basis, but this only tells part of the story. Indeed, understanding the impact of contingent workers can be a challenge, since there are many different types of contingent workers and […]
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The ROI of Learning Part 3: Additional Considerations
In the first two articles of this series on the ROI of learning, I covered many of the barriers that prevent learning professionals from fully engaging with measuring learning’s impact. I also covered a number things to keep in mind when figuring out where to start. In this article, I’ll cover a number of additional […]
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The ROI of Learning Part 2: Where to Begin
Corporate life is often frustrating. When you take two steps forward and one step back, the way forward feels arduous. When things get really bad, it can feel like you’re taking one step forward and two steps back. When executives suddenly call for proof of your learning programs’ effectiveness, the result is often a deer-in-the-headlights […]
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The ROI of Learning Part 1: Barriers
Whether the delivery channel is traditional instructor-led classroom, eLearning or mLearning, every learning professional feels a certain amount of pressure in proving that their programming has a real bottom-line impact to the company. Sometimes that pressure is self-imposed, while other times it comes from higher up in the organization. The Holy Grail of learning would […]
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Are We Still “Re-engineering” Work?
In 1990, Michael Hammer published an article in the Harvard Business Review calling upon US businesses to “re-engineer” the workplace. His argument was straightforward. In a nutshell, he argued that US business processes had become “outmoded and obsolete.” More specifically, he argued “Many of our job designs, work flows, control mechanisms, and organizational structures came […]
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Self-Driving Vehicles: Programming vs. Training
Self-driving, driverless or autonomous—whatever you call it, hands-free driving, which was only recently a science fiction fantasy, has arrived. While we may be able to program cars to drive, however, can we train them to drive like humans?
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Skype Translate: Policy and Training Considerations
At Microsoft’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) laboratory, researchers are test-driving a new generation of natural language processing tools that promise to transform work in the coming decades. Among the most widely publicized and exciting breakthroughs is the lab’s much-hyped Skype Translator, which promises to provide real-time translation to collaborators working across languages, such as English, […]
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Training Remote Work Teams
In the past, employers and employees knew each other, worked in the same office and of course, in the same cultural context and time zone. Today, as remote offices, mobile technologies and peer-to-peer recruitment platforms converge. A growing number of businesses have no physical base at all and in some cases, employers and employees never […]
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Training in the Age of the Internet of Things: Part 2
In an earlier blog post on the Internet of Things, we examined what the Internet of Things is, how it will change work, and its broad implications for education and training. This blog post outlines some of the more specific ways in which the Internet of Things promises to transform education and training in the […]
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Your 2015 eLearning Reading List
Staying on top of the latest and greatest thinking on corporate eLearning is important for anyone striving to stay at the top of the game as an eLearning professional. Below you’ll find my top four picks for some of the most recently and about-to-be published books that will keep you on the leading edge of […]
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