You might want to devise a leadership programme that resonates with your lower-level managers up to your CEO. Or you could be looking to unleash a work management system that you want warehousing, engineering, and finance to adopt. Or you’d like to encourage a collaborative framework to bring disparate teams to work together from far-flung...
Not all people are wide-eyed, starry-eyed, eagle-eyed people of passion and purpose. As an HR or L&D professional, our mission at work (and often in life) is to empower people with the knowledge and skills that they need to thrive. And a great way to empower people is through nurture and encouragement. You and I,...
Our Presentations Alive!™ programme doesn’t just improve people’s business presentation skills. Within Presentations Alive! there’s a hidden second programme. When we designed Presentations Alive!, we did so knowing that the most important skills are also the most difficult to teach – skills like confidence and self-worth. So, we stealthily included these elements into an innocent-sounding...
Upper management was unconvinced, “Why spend so much on training when we can’t see the results?” they asked Jane and her colleagues from the L&D department. It was a question that they couldn’t answer with certainty. Their training budgets were in jeopardy. Despite all the good classroom experiences during training, the results are often suspect....
Hackathons are popular! And PayNet is an early adopter. Watch the video below to hear Jun Maria, Director of Human Capital Development at PayNet, speak about her recent experience with a hackathon and her plans for the future. Discover if you, as an HR or L&D professional, should champion hackathons in your organisation. And are hackathons...
L&D professionals are constantly looking for new ways to create high-impact learning experiences that support business needs. In recent years, some of these learning experiences have shrunk in size and a new term has been coined to describe them – microlearning. At its best, microlearning delivers training just in time and at the point...
Hard to develop and difficult to measure. This is how, many HR and L&D professionals see soft skills. And they are mostly right. To train soft skills is a challenge, but we believe it’s one that’s worth undertaking. Why? Because soft skills are increasingly important in today’s work environment. Not only can they make...
An L&D dream come true would be a training programme that, run just once, leads to employees remembering and implementing everything from it. It would have an immediate impact on your business. As we’ve explored here, this is not going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately. 90% of learning is already forgotten within the first...
Although soft skills are becoming increasingly important in today’s workplaces, businesses still have to rely on hard skills. After all, in-depth technical knowledge is vital for many roles. We see organisations spend a significant amount on technical training in the hope of seeing better job performance and business results in return. Unfortunately, they are...
We’ve spoken to Dr. Raymond Jambaya, Lead Consultant for Learning Technologies at People Potential, about the importance of training reinforcement and his experience in consulting. He shared with us how the right training reinforcement strategy can lead to great results and what challenges organisations face in making this happen. Let’s dive in. How long...