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This year and in the future, organizations across the globe will spend more on their L&D departments’ initiatives and technologies than ever before so that they can become more agile. In 2017 alone, global spending for L&D and training reached $362 billion.
Picture what it was like to go to class in school—the rigid routine of getting up early to sit and listen to lectures for what seemed like unending hours. Now, imagine going through this same experience as an adult in your workplace training program.
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are more tips and best practices for how you can continue developing your employees and programs as your company is downsizing.
Redefining corporate learning and embedding it into the DNA of the organization entails shifting one’s mind-set to think of training and development not as something “to be done” (i.e., an event that delivers knowledge), but as something “that is” (i.e., a platform for powering continuous growth). This platform ultimately enables individuals and the organization “to […]
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.
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, […]
The world is becoming digital, and digital is changing the world. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than within the workforce. Digital technologies allow businesses to become more agile, and agile organizations require adaptable workers. At the same time, new talent increasingly wants more flexibility and dynamism in their career development.
Ineffective training costs employers a whopping $13.5 million per year per 1,000 employees. And this is mainly due to training content that is uninspired and doesn’t truly resonate with employee learners.
Yesterday’s post outlined what edutainment in the workplace is and some potential problems it prompts as a stand-alone training strategy. Here’s more information about how you can incorporate edutainment into your training strategy so that it’s both engaging and effective.
Employers are beginning to spend more money than ever before on their training initiatives and tools. Yet one source indicates that less than 30% of all training being executed is actually being used on the job a month later.