Employers all around the world want a loyal and highly competent workforce. But an enviable team doesn’t appear from nowhere. It takes time, resources and funds to create the ‘dream team’. Most often hiring and training costs are involved. Even though more employers now acknowledge the value of investing in employee training and development,…
7 Ways to Up skill Employees When You Are On a Shoestring Budget
Employers all around the world want a loyal and highly competent workforce. But an enviable team doesn’t appear from nowhere. It takes time, resources and funds to create the ‘dream team’. Most often hiring and training costs are involved. Even though more employers now acknowledge the value of investing in employee training and development,…
How to Collect Training Feedback?
Corporate training has two aspects. One revolves around the designing of the course content as well as the delivery. The second is all about measuring the impact of training on the employees. The ultimate aim of training programs is to bring about an improvement in the employee’s performance and reduce attrition rates. This is where…
Remote Staff Absent For Virtual Training? Here’s what to Do
The dates have been arranged. The instructor is also ready with their training kit. The only thing missing is the students. Only a quarter of your remote team has shown up for the mandatory virtual class on Time Management. To make matters worse, this is not the first time this has happened. You have…
What to Keep In Mind When Training the ‘Seniors’
An aging workforce is always a major concern for employers. Business owners today face a volatile market where customer preferences change at the speed of light and tech innovations are a dime, a dozen. Employers need driven and enthusiastic employees who can adjust quickly to any changes and are eager to upgrade…
5 Reasons Your Training Program Has Turned Into A Yawnfest
The tell-tale rolling of eyes every time the next training session is announced. The carefully polite but disinterested smiles during the class. Are you having sleepless nights thinking that your training program is receiving a less than enthusiastic response from your team? If so you are not alone. Many employees quickly lose interest in…
Why L&D Can Be a Gamechanger in the time of VUCA
‘Times are a-changin’. No one knows this better than the current crop of business leaders. The tried and tested or the formulaic way of managing people and leading business is no longer effective in a world where continuous changes and disruptions are the new normal. A survey conducted by Deloitte ‘2019 Global Human Capital…
Taco Bell Establishes ‘in-house’ B –School for its Employees!
Mid-level managers at Taco Bell can now get an MBA in restaurant management/hospitality while working full-time. In a bid to revamp their learning & development culture, the US-based fast-food chain has established their business school! Named Taco Bell Business School, this newly minted B School will offer courses in restaurant management in collaboration with the…
How Competency Mapping Is Instrumental for Your Company
Before we look for solutions for pre-existing issues, the problem itself has to be identified. Before we ask how we have to ask ‘why’. Address what has gone wrong. So no L&D program can start without effective competency mapping. To identify training needs, the knowledge gap has to be identified first. Your annual sales…
How To Identify Training Needs Of Workforce?
Capacity building has evolved into a major organizational priority in recent years. Acquiring and retaining talent has become a major challenge for organizational leaders today. A productive workforce is still considered one of the prized assets of an organization. However, productivity or efficiency does not occur naturally in all people. Some are born gifted and…