As a former trainer and consultant for many companies, I’ve had the opportunity to observe firsthand the biggest problems they tend to encounter regarding training performance. Namely, a lot of money ...
The workplace has undergone drastic changes over the past two years. Many companies have shut their doors during the pandemic and asked their employees to work remotely. Others preferred a hybrid work...
A version of this post was originally published in Entrepreneur on April 6, 2022. Even just a few years ago, coaching in corporate environments was often a face-to-face exercise. Coaches or managers m...
Today's workforce is diverse, demanding, and dispersed. Some employees are in the office, some are at home, some are traveling for work, and some do all three at various times. There's an interesting ...
Generally, when you hear the term “agile,” you likely think of someone who is fast and moves with ease regarding sports or exercise. However, agile has recently become quite a popular term in workplac...
E-learning is more present than ever in today’s business training environment. With a significant part of their staff still working from home or in a hybrid model, companies continue to adapt their tr...
Even in the post-pandemic workplace, remote and hybrid training is more than likely to prosper as many companies have decided to allow employees to work from home, at least partially. The necessity to...
For the past few decades, successful company leaders have shared a few common traits: bold vision, ability to simplify complex situations, the power to inspire others. They are all excellent qualities...
A version of this post was originally published in Entrepreneur on February 1, 2022. I’ve been in the education business for decades as a senior lecturer, trainer and CEO. When people ask me about the...
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...
A version of this post was published in Training Magazine on January 13, 2022. Predicting the future is often associated with the image of a crystal ball. However, a data scientist crunching numbers m...
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...
Training programs must be diverse and inclusive in order to prove their efficiency. More often than not, when it comes to employee training, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Some people are mor...
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...
