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Employees are valuing career development more than ever—it’s a sign that the company is willing to invest in their future. How are businesses approaching training today? What are their pain points, and what topics are being addressed in training?
Keeping morale high and learning commonplace and desirable across your organization as it’s downsizing and letting employees go is no simple task—and can, of course, only happen after you’ve already proved that your L&D department is essential to your organization and its already stretched budget.
Are you interested in inspiring L&D initiatives and programs that will inspire a positive and enduring company culture?
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are the remaining steps you’ll want to follow when you’re training your employees to be more emotionally intelligent.
Last week, we reported on the recent training Starbucks offered its employees and the benefits to proactive versus reactionary training. Today we’ll focus on what Starbucks employees thought about this training.
According to research conducted by Gallup, emotionally intelligent employees and leaders are much more engaged and are less likely to leave an organization. They also have higher customer ratings, prompt more profitability for an organization, have higher rates of productivity, report fewer theft and safety incidents, and have lower rates of absenteeism.
Let’s face it, public speaking doesn’t come naturally to most of us. Even for those for who are regarded as proficient public speakers, it often took a lot of hard work and practice to get to that point. There are a lot of factors that go into making someone an effective and successful public speaker: […]
In a recent press release, Walmart spreads the word about its new employee benefit program aimed at providing employees with greater access to education.
One of the most uncomfortable aspects of many employees’ careers is the need from time to time to give a presentation or to demonstrate a product to a potential customer. Some employees get extremely nervous during such public presentations.
Technology skills are becoming more important than ever in all industries—no matter what type of business or organization you work for, everyone is trying to be more like the leading tech companies of Silicon Valley. However, even though the values, ethos, and culture of tech start-ups have become more influential than ever before, many employers, […]
On May 29, 2018, Starbucks closed roughly 8,000 locations for the afternoon and engaged around 175,000 employees in a 4-hour training session on unconscious bias.