A version of this post was originally published in Entrepreneur on December 3, 2021. Starting and running a business never meant smooth sailing for entrepreneurs, but the global pandemic took activiti...
The coronavirus pandemic has affected all fields of activity one way or another. However, not many professionals were forced to reinvent themselves to the extent trainers did. Many of them had to deli...
Remote work training is becoming increasingly important for modern workforces, and more and more people are embracing the remote learning culture. Whether you're a new hire or a manager looking to sup...
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...
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 ...
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...
One of the greatest challenges of instructional design is finding the right practical activities that allow learners to use the new knowledge in relevant, day-to-day situations. However, even when the...
History tells us that trade guilds were rather powerful in Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth century. These were associations of craftsmen and merchants formed to promote the economic interest...
“People leave managers, not companies” often comes up whenever we talk about leadership. The truth is that the way managers interact with their teams influences the team members’ satisfaction and enga...
Today’s news is all about a staffing shortage on a global level. There are several reasons for this, some related to the global health crisis, some to generational characteristics, and some to how cer...
Organizations have been setting up wellbeing programs for their employees for a rather long time. Whether these entailed art workshops, massage sessions, tickets to entertaining events, or incentives ...
Working in an office has the advantage of bringing people together in the literal sense. They genuinely get to know one another, share coffee breaks, brainstorm ideas, and give or receive help. This i...
Managers already have a lot to deal with in today’s volatile business environment. The switch to mostly remote work has come with even more challenges and major shifts in employee needs and expectatio...
Sunday is a trip day for my family. We have this “tradition” of having take-out food when we return home – always from the same chain restaurant, close to our house. While the menu is wonderful and th...
A decade ago, work from home was a very rare thing. As of 2020, it has become the norm, and with the global situation getting to some kind of (new) normal, most organizations are moving towards a hybr...
Some two decades ago, accountability was only a fancy word for a manager’s prerogative to offer constructive feedback (often used as a euphemism for criticism) during performance appraisals. Employees...
