Walmart Touts New Education Benefit for Employees
In a recent press release, Walmart spreads the word about its new employee benefit program aimed at providing employees with greater access to education.
Tag: Training
Should You Practice Dry Runs Before Doing Product Demos?
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.
Reactionary Versus Proactive Training
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.
Product Demonstrations: Focus on the Benefits, Not the Tech
Product demonstrations are a key part of the sales cycle. Once a lead has been identified and cultivated, one of the final steps in the sales process is demonstrating the product—showing the prospect what you’ve been talking so much about.
A New Training Paradigm: Learning as a Platform
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.
What Is Reskilling?
In today’s workforce, technology seems to be changing the way we work more and more each year. We perform more and more of our work online, and we utilize digital and mobile technologies in new and exciting ways. We’re using artificial intelligence to interact with customers and employees. We’re automating more and more tasks and […]
Best Practices for Training and Retaining Seasonal Workers
Yesterday’s post covered some best practices for hiring seasonal workers. Today’s post will cover best practices for training and retaining seasonal workers. Keep reading to learn more.
5 Tips for Using Humor in Your Learning Materials
Using humor in your learning materials can keep your learners engaged and focused throughout their training. But how can you effectively use humor while also maintaining a certain level of professionalism?
More Tips for Maintaining a Training Budget During Downsizing
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are more details about how to make sure your training budget, programs, and initiatives remain intact if your organization starts downsizing.
What Does It Take to Get Implicit Bias Training to Work?
Starbucks recently closed more than 8,000 company-owned stores for one day to conduct implicit bias training in response to a viral video that showed two African-American men being arrested for trespassing at one of its Philadelphia stores. Starbucks also announced that its new training curriculum, designed by several national experts, will be available to other […]