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5 Steps to Make Ongoing Employee Training Enjoyable

5 Steps to Make Ongoing Employee Training Enjoyable

This helps employees, because it makes learning—even learning challenging things—feel approachable. And it helps the team, because everyone is constantly improving. Training new employees is tough. There’s so much industry - and company-specific knowledge you have to impart. There are so many...

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Reinventing Learning in a Remote Workforce

Reinventing Learning in a Remote Workforce

Adjust the 70/20/10 professional development model, perhaps closer to a 50/25/25 model. This could utilize the same technology that ushered in our new era of work and create more achievable benchmarks for in-person coaching. An employee’s professional development has long thrived on face-to-face...

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The Science Behind Spaced Repetition

The Science Behind Spaced Repetition

In order to drill new information or knowledge into your brain, you do not need to cram for hours on end the night before a test or listen intently to a daylong training course. As a matter of fact, these approaches to learning will probably have the opposite effect. Along with the tedious and...

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Using Stay Interviews to Increase Staff Retention

Using Stay Interviews to Increase Staff Retention

With many positions in high demand and short supply, some organizations are struggling to retain staff members while also attracting new hires. Employee satisfaction depends on several factors—salary, benefits, and scheduling being chief among them. Workplace culture is another, and its effect on...

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Exorcising Your Ghost Employees

Exorcising Your Ghost Employees

The effects of the labor crisis are still unfolding and new challenges for leaders are emerging every day. Employees turning to ghosts has been on the rise lately. A ghost hire is when you interview a candidate, offer them the job and they accept — and then you never hear from them again! They...

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Reviews

How to Prepare for Performance Management Reviews

For a number of my executive coaching clients, it’s the time of year when they’re wrapping up annual performance review conversations. As is usually the case, some of those are easy and fun, and others are hard and stress-inducing. Whether they’re part of an annual cycle or, much more usefully, a...

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