Training

The in-person, extended, and feedback-intensive methods reflected in what I’ve learned from my martial arts experiences are often the right approach to use both in selecting learning methods for ourselves or providing learning experiences for others. Article Author:  Chuck Kovach, Principal, Chuck Kovach’s Collaborate for Results LLC I’m a Learning and Development (L&D) professional who […]

Train-the-trainers learn how to lead participants through discussions and exercises around identification of barriers or “pebbles” to joy and empathy in the workplace, how to overcome them, and how to create peak moments. Article Author:  Edited by Lorri Freifeld Not-for-profit health-care organization Hackensack Meridian Health’s “Humanizing X: Joy & Empathy at Work” train-the-trainer workshop is an

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