July 2020

Identifying these valuable skills requires leaders to look beyond experience and the type of skills an employee could simply learn to do the job effectively. They must dig deep and rethink the questions they are asking to uncover these traits. Article Author:  Scott Dettman, CEO, Avenica The secret behind great companies is, and always has

Author:  By Margery Weinstein The pandemic has impacted all workplaces, but especially those favoring open, communal office cultures. While not my cup of tea, for many tech-industry employees, a highly interactive, collaborative work environment is the norm. The question is whether these interaction-based offices will ever return to exactly what they were in pre-pandemic days.

At first pass, it’s hard to understand what exactly about sitting in front of a screen and speaking with others is so energy consuming. But there are real psychological and physical explanations for that burnt-out feeling. Article Author:  Stacy Adams, Head, Marketing, Vyond Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers have traded long commutes for short

In the face of the pandemic, taking your training into living rooms, kitchens, and bookcase-lined studies calls for a radically different approach—one that requires keeping top of mind the differing needs and levels of tech savvy of an intergenerational audience. Article Author:  Alasdair James Scott, Senior Consultant, PDT Global It’s Friday morning, and you’re furiously

Excerpt adapted from Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon’s Quest to Out-Think Fear by Dr. Mark McLaughlin and Shawn Coyne (Copyright Mark McLaughlin and Shawn Coyne, 2019). Article Author:  Dr. Mark McLaughlin Let’s say you’ve been working very hard to reach a goal. It could be the goal of going to your college of choice, or

The shift to digital presents coaches a real opportunity to change the way they work with their clients—and finally ditch the old seminar model. Article Author:  Fabian Niedballa, Cofounder and Chief Operating Officer, Sharpist COVID-19 presents challenges unlike any we’ve faced before—and with a massive shift to remote working underway around the world, that includes

Find out about the latest advances in training technology. Article Author:  Edited by Lorri Freifeld >> Workforce productivity and analytics software company ActivTrak, Inc., announced the availability of new workforce productivity and analytics features that help companies understand how teams work, identify key success and risk factors, and improve business performance and outcomes. ActivTrak’s new

The latest products and services launching in the training industry. Article Author:  Edited by Lorri Freifeld >> Conversa Health, a leader in automated personalized patient engagement, unveiled a new offering for businesses and other organizations: COVID-19 Employee HealthCheck. Employee HealthCheck engages employees each workday in a brief automated chat to assess exposure risk to the Coronavirus and