February 2020

If you want to make better, more effective, impactful, meaningful videos—push the record button. And then do it again and again and again. And every time you do, purge that urge to have everything be perfect, while methodically and purposefully getting better. Article Author:  Matt Pierce, Learning & Video Ambassador, TechSmith Corp. Everyone wants to […]

These are the organizations that excelled at employee training and development in the last year. Article Author:  Lorri Freifeld CONTACT: Lorri Freifeld Editor-in-Chief Training magazine lorri@trainingmag.com Excelsior, MN (February 25, 2020)—2020 marks the 20th year Training magazine has recognized organizations that provide best-in-class employee training and development. This year, retailer Dollar General Corporation, LLC, racked up its second

When employees have a say in the brainstorming and decision of what perks will be part of the incentive to stay, they will have a stake in the success of the new perk programs. Article Author:  Vicki Brackett, COO, Sinousia As companies face employee retention and employee engagement challenges, leaders are looking at why certain programs

Author:  Margery Weinstein With continued advances in computers and mobile technology, many people assumed things would get easier, more convenient, and less stressful. And yet, according to a recent Korn Ferry survey, that’s not the case. The survey of nearly 2,000 professionals, which Korn Ferry conducted in October, asked professionals up and down an organization about the

L&D professionals must step out from underneath the pressure of becoming experts in the relevant business area each time they are tasked with creating content. Instead they should be facilitators who create space for the actual stakeholders—those who work in that business area day in and day out—to step in and provide the right information.

Excerpt from “Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be” by Hortense le Gentil (October 2019). Article Author:  Hortense le Gentil Aligned leadership in an aligned company can be a powerful tool in achieving extraordinary results. As a leader, to achieve personal and professional alignment you must follow the route of

5 simple steps to mediate and resolve conflicts between employees, plus 5 tips to help avoid future conflicts. Article Author:  Claudio Miguel, Founder, Outbound.net Conflict is a common problem we might experience in our organizations and working environments. This state of discord can be the result of perceived or actual opposition of interests, values, and/or

Lean Practitioner is designed as a blended learning solution with an evolutionary journey where the knowledge and experience of the participants work together to create a depth of expertise upon which they can keep building. Article Author:  Edited by Lorri Freifeld In 2015, Gilbane Building Company identified inefficiencies in its operations practices that impacted overall

Part 1 of 3 articles that will provide tips for Preparing, Engaging, and Acting to manage difficult conversations in the workplace. Article Author:  Karen Hough, Founder and CEO, www.ImprovEdge.com Tough conversations make everyone nervous. We need to address a situation, but we don’t know how to start and we don’t want to hurt feelings. We

Suboptimal key performance indicators (KPIs) can be the first signs that warehouse processes aren’t efficient or that employees need more training in certain areas—such as count accuracy, picking, or equipment usage. Article Author:  Megan Ray Nichols Today, warehouse owners have access to more data than ever, as well as new and powerful data analytics tools.