Employee training and development is essential for your organization’s success. It is important to ensure your employees’ skills, abilities, and knowledge levels are being regularly updated. There are a variety of reasons for employee training and development, including (but not limited to):...
Creating a personalized training program can help keep top workers satisfied. The pandemic has caused millions of people to quit their jobs, leaving companies scrambling to find ways to hold on to their top employees and attract new ones. "Employers are getting a hard wake-up call around how...
Employee engagement refers to the extent to which an employee is committed and enthusiastic toward their work assignments and the organization. Engaged employees are happy, productive employees who produce quality work. The learning function plays a crucial role in increasing employee engagement...
More than half the workforce says they need more training to perform better in their current roles. How are companies responding? Workforce training, always a significant player behind the scenes in a company’s success, is about to have its day in the limelight. According to a new study, employees...
It may be unintentional, but proximity bias is a growing reality in the hybrid workplace — and HR leaders want to be sure it doesn’t happen. It’s a crisis of visibility: People in powerful, decision-making positions tend to treat employees who are physically closer to them more favorably than...
By this point, you’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting”: the practice of employees doing the bare minimum to keep their jobs without going above and beyond or putting a lot of effort into their responsibilities. While quiet quitting has had a widespread and negative effect on the workplace, some...
Performance is the conversation of the moment. Some leaders are concerned if remote and hybrid workers are getting their work done. The changes to how work gets done in the last several years have also made us question the performance metrics we’re using to gauge success. These are conversations...
We previously reported on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed rule that has sparked quite a stir. The proposed rule aims to ban companies from forcing employees to sign non-compete agreements. These agreements prohibit workers from taking jobs with competitors for a certain period of...
More companies are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home on a full or part-time basis. Across industries, major corporations including Disney, Twitter and Starbucks are requiring employees to spend more time at the office. While half of employers say flexible work...
Imagine, you have arrived at a networking event and the host introduces you to Richard, a cleaning company owner. Just as you politely smile and shake Richard's hand, he starts telling you about the most advanced floor polisher he’s bought, and the green commercial grade disinfectant he uses, and...
In just a few months, you’ll be able to ask a virtual assistant to transcribe meeting notes during a work call, summarize long email threads to quickly draft suggested replies, quickly create a specific chart in Excel, and turn a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation in seconds. And that’s...
Artificial intelligence can help hiring managers and recruiters discover talent, reducing the time it takes to get them onboard a company. But there are risks associated with a process often automated by a chatbot. Before employing artificial intelligence (AI) to find job candidates, Southwest...