As one of the many cognitive biases hard-wired into our brains, many of us simply do not want to experience loss. So we take what seems like a safer bet. But when we fail to take worthwhile risks, we also lose more over the long term. Article Author: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO, Disaster Avoidance Experts …
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To optimize productivity, sales managers should use personalized coaching solutions and focus on developing key skills such as discovery, whether the rep is sitting in the same office with them or is 25 miles away. Article Author: C. Lee Smith, CEO, SalesFuel Our current COVID-19-required remote work arrangements are likely to continue for large portions …
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It’s important for training professionals to carefully consider their objectives and specific audiences instead of simply jumping onto the latest training craze. Article Author: Jeniffer Strub, Senior Manager, Human Resources, Vyond What if employees could walk out of a work training and say they had fun? That’s the ultimate dream for training professionals and why …
Competencies can help your team to “see and understand” the same goal (working toward the bigger picture) because they make it easy to define your organization’s vision, goals, and mission statement into clear and observable qualities for employees. Article Author: Onyeka Ndukwe, Digital Marketing Specialist, HRSG Teamwork is a critical component in nearly every company …
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Adopting technology solutions that provide predictive analytics and strategically enable organizations to leverage existing talent can be used to identify employees with transferable skills, while at the same time planning for future needs by identifying knowledge gaps and recommending training where needed. Article Author: Matthew Bragstad, Head, Human Capital Management Strategy, Infor In this time …
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The recent Budget and VET? It’s mostly all about support for apprentices and trainees as we highlight the treasurer’s speech and a number of the budget papers. But there are other things there too. First, the federal government has established the $1 billion JobTrainer fund to create up to 340,000 free or low‑cost training places …
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The 2020 VDC Virtual Teaching & Learning Conference focuses on an area within the VET sector that is often seen as challenging, Engagement. VDC has listened to your feedback and designed highly interactive virtual workshops on engaging with industry. The Keynote Presentations and Professional Learning Sessions with the theme of VET teaching and learning strategies for engaging …
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggest that, pre-COVID-19, “Australia was already in a prolonged productivity slump.” They believe that’s set to worsen unless the nation upskills – and fast! What’s happened? Their paper, “Where next for skills? How business-led upskilling can reboot Australia,” published in August this year, is summarised through the link just above. COVID-19 has challenged …
Is there an argument for rationalising the number of VET qualifications? This recent publication from NCVER looks at international approaches to this process and asks what can we learn from this. There are a lot of qualifications at present A little while ago, 2016 to be precise, NCVER published a report that looked at the …
Griffith University’s Steven Hodge has authored a paper that provides an overview of training and assessment issues covered in the VET sector’s landmark reports highlighted on VOCEDPlus. Beginning with Kangan, he works through the three pivotal papers released during the Dawkins era (and described in the paper as the transformative trilogy!) as well as the …
