Posts Tagged ‘Training’

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 …

Talent Drain on the Brain

Missing talent

Missing talent in your organization

As most American companies continue their ongoing emergence from the recession, they are faced with a significant problem: Despite persistent levels of high unemployment, there is an increasingly serious dearth of the highly skilled talent they require to remain competitive.

To some degree, the recession …

Managing the ‘Very’ Difficult Employee

'Problem' Employees

A new study, by Susan L. Ettner, Joanna Catherine MacLean, and Michael T. French indicated that:

  • 18 percent of adult men
  • 16 percent of adult women

have personality disorders that adversely affect how they think and act in the workplace. The study examined personality disorders through face-to-face interviews …

Tackling the Skills Gap and Brain Drain with Training

Electricians Replace 20 Amp Breaker

Tackling the skills gap

Hiring managers in the energy sector have to deal with the fact that the national unemployment rate is 9.2 percent yet there are still positions that remain unfilled for months because of a lack of qualified candidates A recent Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP

Speak the Language of Business

knowledge and training

Knowledge work is essential

A white paper published in February 2010 by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) found that 79 percent of surveyed companies said they had a skills gap. The report cited two chief reasons:

  • Changing nature of work
  • Workers’ educational levels lagging behind

Leadership in the Workplace: Back To School Basics For Small Business Owners

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Great leaders never stop learning

Great leaders are also great learners and in order to lead other individuals successfully, supervisors managers and business owners need to take part in strong leadership training programs.

Such programs should address such topics as listening and communicating effectively, giving negative feedback in a way …