Hiring top candidates requires a lot of planning, strategy, and investment. Despite putting a lot of effort in sourcing, scrutinizing, and onboarding the best talent, companies find it challenging to retain their employees for a considerable amount of time. The greatest challenge that CEOs are...
Will the new COVID-19 vaccines be added to the list of mandatory inoculations for school kids? Can employers require their employees to prove they’ve been vaccinated? Can a business refuse to serve customers who’ve refused the vaccine? Those are questions federal and state regulators will be...
Prior to the pandemic, it was already clear that one of the key leadership qualities that sets great bosses apart is empathy — the ability to understand and care about others’ emotions. Empathy has become even more important amid the coronavirus crisis, with managers needing to focus more on their...
Let’s face it, 2020 was a hard year for everyone. But, it was especially hard for us entrepreneurs and business owners around the globe. Of course, you don’t need me to remind you of all of the adjustments you had to make this year. Sure, 2020 just couldn’t cut business owners a break. But, 2021...
Why businesses are rethinking how they train their teams. Before the devastating impact of COVID-19, many businesses were already looking to move more face-to-face training to remote learning formats for cost and efficiency reasons. Then 2020 arrived, bringing with it the disastrous pandemic....
When criminals use technology to propagate social engineering attacks, securing your organization can become complicated. Here's what you need to know about phishing and spearphishing. While security professionals focus largely on identifying and patching vulnerabilities in software, the weakest...
Until October, Andrea LaRew was paying $950 a month for health insurance through her job at the Northwest Douglas County Chamber & Economic Development Corp. in the metro Denver area. Her company didn’t contribute anything toward the premium. Plus, LaRew and her husband had a steep $13,000...
Bad classroom training doesn’t get better on a Webinar. Here are seven tips for successful delivery of training via Webinar. In part 1, we covered how to prepare trainers and participants when a Webinar is the delivery method of training, The Virtual Trainer (Part 1). Now let’s move on to the...
Video responses to set questions, online games that measure a person’s traits and skills: The future of interviews is coming to a wider variety of professions in the pandemic. So much of our work lives has moved online during the pandemic: group meetings, chats with the boss — even interviewing...
Any savings from relocating to a cheaper place might disappear. As many as a third of remote workers who move to a cheaper place to live during the pandemic could end up getting a pay cut that offsets any savings, Willis Towers Watson found in a survey released recently. About a quarter...
Transferring face-to-face classroom energy strategies to the virtual environment. I conducted my first virtual training program in 1986 via satellite. It was for the United States Chamber of Commerce. It was three hours long on the topic of “Creative Presentation Techniques,” and it was delivered...
Dive Brief: Executives recognize the pressures employees face as companies move through digital transformations, but many overestimate their offerings to employees in areas such as training, support and job expectations, according to a Sept. 30 IBM Institute for Business Value report. In data...