11 Reasons why employee training fails
If you’ve been in the corporate learning field long enough, odds are you have witnessed a training program that failed despite its great premise. Even organizations with a sound system in place someti...
If you’ve been in the corporate learning field long enough, odds are you have witnessed a training program that failed despite its great premise. Even organizations with a sound system in place someti...
Corporate training evaluation focuses mainly on information retention and skills acquisition. The goal is to determine how successful a learning intervention has been. This involves measuring the posi...
The pandemic has proved that resilient employees make an organization come out stronger on the other side. Additionally, the current employment crisis shows that good employees are hard to retain, and...
Even with the development of useful learning data that can be gathered from company learning management systems (LMSs), post-training surveys are still prevalent and their results are relevant. That’s...
Back in the days of classroom training, whenever the subject of difficult participants came up, it was mostly about people who didn't want to be in the room and disrupted the learning process. There w...
Adult learning principles haven't changed with the digital revolution, yet corporate learning has seen a spectacular transformation. This transformation also brought about the need to rethink the KPIs...
In my previous article, I've talked about some of the major challenges change management teams face after mergers - when two companies join forces to move forward as a single new entity. The goal of m...
Most mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are kept top secret until they happen. Of course, if the information got out early, it could affect how both companies perform on the stock market. Furthermore, bo...
We all know and share stories — of our family, pets, work, travel, life experiences. We refer to myths, folklore, and characters from popular TV shows to explain things to ourselves and others. We nat...
E-learning has been on a meteoric rise for well over a decade. However, the past two years have been crucial in consolidating it as an important branch of learning for schools, organizations, and indi...
If you are a manager reading this, you might think, “on top of everything I need to do, how on Earth am I supposed to deal with that too?”. It’s a legitimate question. And, if you think that it’s most...
Motivating your team was a challenge for many, even before the global crisis turned everything upside down. Two years into this climate of stress and uncertainty turned a challenge into a Herculean ta...
The business world is changing, markets are increasingly demanding, and employees often feel overwhelmed with the amount of new information needed to stay competitive. L&D departments are doing their ...
Every L&D specialist has at least once worn the hat of a project manager. Since corporate learning is highly complex and there are numerous factors to be taken into account, the L&D team has a lot on ...
One of the most frequent school-related jokes is that we learn complicated things that prove to be inconsequential later in life. I’m not here to debate the usefulness of various subjects as they cert...
There’s a lot of emphasis on collaboration nowadays. Great teamwork has many benefits, the most important being quick conflict resolution. However, there is one downside to that. If everyone is workin...