6 Best Practices for Online Learning
Today’s Advisor provides several best practices to help you ensure employee success when you provide online skills training.
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Let Your Training Get Corrosive if Need Be
In yesterday’s Advisor, we gave background information and instructions for corrosives training. Today, we provide best practices and emergency first-aid training instructions.
Further Results of the 2014 Termination and Exit Interviews Survey—What Are the Best Practices?
In yesterday’s Advisor, we announced findings from BLR’s Termination and Exit Interviews Survey. Today, more results from our study, including information regarding best practices and what’s happening with severance pay.
Best Practices: Gamification and Informal Learning for Millennials
Today’s Advisor reports on how one company leverages informal learning for Millennial employees
Are You Getting the Biggest Return for Your Training Bucks?
Safety training is one of those areas where shaving service or quality can have a seriously negative impact. For one thing, training your workers is your duty under the law. And whether you’re regulated by OSHA, MSHA, DOT, EPA, or state and local entities, the results of noncompliance can be significant. What’s more, not […]
Train Employees to Follow These Flu Prevention Best Practices
With serious outbreaks in several states, this year’s flu season is shaping up to be one to remember. Especially concerning is the fact that the vaccine may not be a good match for the virus. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is encouraging employers and employees to maintain a healthy, flu-free workplace this […]
Train Leaders to Practice ‘Defensive Management’ Best Practices
To recap, attorneys representing aggrieved employees in discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wage and hour, and other types of employment claims love allegations of supervisor wrongdoing because that’s the “smoking gun” they need to paint that supervisor as a villain—whose statements, acts, decisions, and omissions should result in liability for the employer. Also, such acts may […]
Are You Training Your Leaders on ‘Defensive Management’ Best Practices?
At some point, every workplace is faced with allegations that a supervisor behaved badly. Perhaps it was a stray remark about a disability, age, or race. Or maybe they treated someone in a way that wouldn’t pass the smell test under the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities […]
Train Employees to Give Memorable Service with These Top 10 Best Practices
The holiday season certainly brings customer service to the forefront of our thinking, but excellent service is needed 24/7/365 in order to have a successful business. Therefore, in today’s Advisor, we continue our discussion of what makes great customer service—year-round. It’s not about shoes, says Internet shoe company Zappos’ CEO, Tony Hsieh. It’s about […]
Train Frontline Supervisors on 2 More Safety Best Practices
To recap, as the key interface between management and line employees, the frontline supervisor is considered by many to play a pivotal part in worker protection. Craig Hamelund, a safety specialist and educator with Oregon OSHA, recommends training your supervisors on the following best practices in safety supervision. 3. Discipline appropriately. Another practice Hamelund […]