Mentoring is definitely not a recent concept. It has been around in the corporate world almost from its beginnings. Traditionally this means pairing an older, experienced employee with a younger one w...
When advocating the usefulness of e-learning, a lot of arguments are brought to the table. It is a lot more flexible than classroom training, it is engaging, cost-effective and is not confined by geog...
L&D specialists face the challenges of the modern business world every day. Markets evolve at incredible speeds, technology improves even faster, objectives and employees don’t stay the same for as lo...
Being new at anything is both a stressful and an exciting situation. When it comes to management positions, the excitement is most often shadowed by all the challenges they pose. This is why onboardin...
This post has been updated on March 4, 2020. The business world is constantly changing, along with markets and employee dynamics. What was the norm for corporate learning and development nor farther t...
Today’s workforce is very different than it was ten, maybe twenty years ago. Time is perceived differently as there doesn’t seem to be enough of it anymore. Everything happens with great speed, schedu...
Today’s workplace is made of various and very different generations. In theory, employees vary in age from eighteen to seventy-five. For L&D professionals this means that they have to manage a very bi...
Their supporters describe Millennials as free-spirited, self-aware youngsters who know what they want and what they are worth and feel very strongly about their autonomy. Their detractors, on the othe...
The theory or social learning is anything but recent. Back in 1977 Albert Bandura developed it from the behaviorist theories that supported the ideas of operant and classical conditioning. He shows, h...
Television networks constantly monitor their audience ratings. They will often brag about the “golden minute”, those magical sixty seconds when unprecedented numbers of people are watching a certain c...
Leadership development is vital for the survival and growth of any organization. Hiring talent is in itself a difficult endeavor. Keeping talented people on board is increasingly complicated and harne...
Humans have been storytellers since the beginning of time. Old Native people who preferred the oral tradition as a means to pass on knowledge to the next generations knew what they were doing. The Dru...
E-learning is advertised as being the more cost-effective approach to training in today’s corporate world. It doesn’t require a conference room, people taken out of their daily schedules and sometimes...
Teamwork and collaboration are qualities that inevitably show up in any job description when companies publish ads for hiring new people. Businesses spend a lot of money on team-building exercises, tr...
Microlearning is on everybody’s lips these days. It’s probably the latest in terms of effective learning – as efficiency has an important time component and a nugget usually varies between three and s...
Sleep, learning, and memory are very intricate psychological phenomena that to this day are not fully comprehended. However, there are quite a few studies that prove that the quantity, and more import...
