How Two Brain Systems Drive Effective Decision Making
It’s likely you’re continually looking for ways to make better decisions. If so, you might want to take a look at the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.
Category: Learning & Development
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?
Boost Your Training with Visualization
Visualization can be a great help in boosting classroom training, both in the preparation and the delivery. Today an expert trainer provides valuable visualization techniques.
Mistakes to Avoid During Workplace Investigations
Workplace investigations can be time consuming and exhausting—but, despite that, they’re not a time where it’s okay to cut corners. When conducting an investigation, the organization must always remember that it’s not only seeking to resolve the issue at hand, it’s also seeking to minimize the risk of future lawsuits and do everything properly in […]
What is Competency-Based Training?
As the name implies, competency-based training is a type of training that is focused on specific competencies or skills. Unlike other more traditional training methods, competency-based training is broken down into much smaller units that are focused on one single key skill. The learner must demonstrate his or her mastery of that single skill or […]
Painting the People Picture for Today’s C-Suite: 3 Tips for Employee Development
As HR leaders know all too well, you won’t find a résumé outlining a job candidate’s biggest achievements as “successfully working with people with wildly different personalities than their own” or “navigating difficult professional situations with strength and grace.”
Q&A: Giving Employees Money to Buy Their Own Health Insurance
As a recruiter or hiring manager in a world where the ACA is in constant turmoil, you might be thinking: can’t I just give new hires (or current employees for that matter) money to buy their own health insurance and be done with it?
The Top 10 Technology Distractions—and How to Be Productive Anyway
Yesterday’s Advisor provided four techniques for mindfully expanding productivity and creativity at work. Today, we examine how technology has the potential to hurt productivity, along with tips for boosting productivity in the face of these distractions.
4 Techniques for Mindfully Expanding Productivity
How can you train your employees on how to mindfully expand their productivity and creativity at work? In today’s Advisor, an expert weighs in.
Successfully Integrating Digital Mindfulness Training
What can employers do to help ensure the success of digital mindfulness training? It’s no secret that employees can get easily distracted by technology, but a new survey by ComPsych® Corporation, a provider of employee assistance programs, illustrates how pervasive the problem is. In fact, 88% of employees acknowledge that they browse social media outlets […]
Treasure Hunt Promotes Teambuilding, Leadership Skills
Students from a Louisiana university searched for Mardi Gras beads as part of a teambuilding and team-bonding exercise, but they found so much more in the process.