Author: By Margery Weinstein As I have written about in recent weeks, loneliness in the workplace seems like a luxury. With the simple privilege of cubicles—which many of us used to complain about and take for granted—gone, how could anyone be lonely? Yet, last week, I read a piece in Forbes pondering whether loneliness at work was […]
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Excerpt from Chapter 10: Your Future in the Field from “An Overview of Training and Development: Why Training Matters” by Saul Carliner and Margaret Driscoll (Lakewood Media, 2019). Article Author: Margaret Driscoll and Saul Carliner Two general career paths exist in Training and Development: Individual contributor path intended for people who have great expertise in
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Informed preboarding strategies help HR professionals meet the challenges presented by the higher expectations of Millennial and Generation Z employees. Article Author: Erwin Van Der Vlist, Founder and CEO, Speakap Human Resources teams are facing difficult challenges when it comes to hiring and engaging new employees. Among the major factors influencing these challenges are: the
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Developing soft skills is a task that takes time, clear focus on the uniqueness of each individual, and sensitivity to how difficult and uncomfortable fundamental change can feel. Article Author: Dale Ludwig, President, Turpin Communication When it comes to helping others develop soft skills in today’s workplace, everyone agrees on two things: First, soft skills,
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The firm’s revised Performance Coaching model ties employee performance to organizational goals and was rolled out in four phases: goal setting, goal check-ins, personal development planning, and end-of-year goal check-ins and planning for the following year. Article Author: Edited by Lorri Freifeld In the past, formal performance reviews at Fisher Investments took place annually, were
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Registrations are now open for the 2020 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference at the popular RACV Torquay Resort on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. The VDC has provided this leading an annual teaching and learning conference for the past 14 years establishing it as one of Australia’s leading teaching focussed events. The program delves
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In late 2018, John Hattie and Arran Hamilton published a ‘White paper’ entitled “Education cargo cults must die”. An intriguing title; but what’s its message? What are the cargo cults? Hattie and Hamilton suggest that: “Cargo cults develop when organizations or individuals spend their meager resources on the wrong things, declare success and congratulate themselves
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In the last issue we highlighted a new NCVER report that looked at VET courses delivered totally online. This article presents the other element of this report: what good online practice looks like. In our last exciting episode In the article in the last issue of VDC News: “Online delivery of VET: What’s the story”
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In its latest VET-related Review by the Productivity Commission is concerned to make VET accessible, efficient and of high quality. The first stage in the process has produced an issues paper. The Review The Review “will assess progress made by governments against the NASWD [or the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development to its
Council of Australian Government (COAG) Skill Council meeting in November 2019 agreed on “an ambitious approach” to enhance Australian vocational education and training. The meeting was held in Brisbane and coincided with the national training awards. Ministers discussed a draft VET Reform Roadmap. We’ll feature more about this in VDC News when more details are
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