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Make Employee Development a Winning Investment

Invest in your workforce

Invest in your workforce

Small businesses tend to regard training as an optional expenditure.  The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) has found that companies with fewer than 500 employees typically allocate fewer training hours per employee compared with larger companies but also end up spending more per employee.…

What is Your Human Resource Story?

9-Box Tool

Charting Your Course

As the threat of falling back into a recession becomes more real with each passing day, employers are asking themselves, “What should we do now?” What makes it more challenging is that the trend in the most recent years has been slow recovery.

Employers may have designed …

Important Succession Planning Lessons From Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs while presenting the iPad

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs has influenced computer design during his storied career but more importantly, he has influenced what it means to be a company leader. His idiosyncratic leadership style, hyperbolic presentations, and fiercely hands-on management approach have inspired the envy of executives and the fear of more than a …

How to Improve Communication within Your Organization

Blitz Strategy

What is your communication strategy?

It’s mid-season in the NFL.  Where first year coaches are winning and rookie quarterbacks are making a huge impact.

CEO’s looking to improve communication within their organization and enhance employee engagement can adopt an easy-to-use communication blitz strategy of their own.

Ultimately, it can help …

How to Link Learning and Behavioral Styles to Improve Performance

Learning and development professionals have long known that people learn in different ways. However, it is also true that people

Highlighting Performance

behave and respond to others’ behavior in a variety of ways.

Ideally, effective learning takes into account both a person’s learning style and behavioral style. Doing so results …

For Bright Ideas, Ask Your Employees

According to Alan G. Robinson, a professor in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the

Bright Ideas

Inspire employees for to have great ideas

average U.S. worker sees his or her input implemented only once every six years.  This is despite the having the opportunity to contribute …