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As a trainer, you’re aware that you may often face a hostile audience, pulled away from the comfort zone of current jobs and asked to learn something new … perhaps without removing any of the previous load. “Quotas and deadlines still must be met,” employees are often told by their supervisors, “and you have to […]
This information is applicable for all employees and comes from one of BLR’s popular HR Training Presentations in PowerPoint on “Healthy Aging.” Discussion Points Use these discussion points for each question as you talk about each aspect of healthy aging with your employees. 1. Nutrition strategies to help ensure healthy aging include: Eating foods from […]
Training is subject to many myths. Here are just two: 1. Myth: Any person with subject knowledge can do training. Fact: A person may have good subject knowledge but may not be able to conduct training. Being a subject expert does not mean someone is a good trainer. Unlimited employee HR training—one low cost—no setup, […]
This exercise is applicable for all employees and comes from one of BLR’s popular HR Training Presentations in PowerPoint® sessions on “Healthy Aging.” The objective of the exercise is to find out how well trainees are meeting the requirements of healthy aging. Instructions: Have trainees complete the worksheet below. (Let them know that this is […]
The first two best practices are to give respect to older employees and to leverage their experience to help the team work through tough situations. 3. Be inclusive Once you earn their respect and capitalize on their level of experience, you can begin to shift your attention to making your team members feel included. Since […]
With more and more large universities and high schools adding degrees in hospitality to their course offerings, it’s clear that the industry is gaining attention from millennials. (A millennial, commonly referred to as Generation Y, is anyone born between the 1980s and early 2000s.) The increase in the number of students graduating with a bachelor’s […]
Dr. Susan G. Weinberger, affectionately known as Dr. Mentor, is the President of the Mentor Consulting Group in Norwalk, CT USA, and an international expert on internal and external business mentoring and coaching programs. In this article she continues to describe youth mentoring programs. Kinds of Company-sponsored Youth Mentoring Programs Regardless of location of the […]
One potentially confusing area for employers is determining under which circumstances employee training time must be paid. Is all employee training time considered hours worked? Hi. I’m Susan Prince, a Legal Editor at HR.BLR.com. We recently received an Ask the Expert question from a subscriber asking “Do we have to pay an employee for an […]
He began by describing the many hats that safety trainers wear, along with the varied responsibilities that come with each head topper: Facilitator. As a facilitator a trainer makes sure participants express their thoughts and are heard and recognized. A trainer mediates differences and periodically checks how participants are feeling and reacting to the training. […]
Discussing the various hand hazards your workers face and describing the safety procedures in place to protect them are both important parts of your training. But sometimes, physical demonstrations of just how hand injuries would affect workers’ lives may pack the biggest punch, so to speak. In other words, here’s a brief training exercise to […]