As 2019 draws to a close, you are more than likely preparing for a well-deserved break right now. This time of the year is the perfect opportunity to reflect on your achievements and plan ahead for 2020. You might be asking yourself… How should your training programmes perform next year? What results do you want...
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 of...
Organisations are filled with professionals like you, who in most cases, know more about what they are doing than their managers and executives. They’ve spent years honing their craft, accumulating valuable knowledge, and reimagining the future. Their ideas could massively benefit the organisation. Unfortunately, those ideas are often not expressed to senior management Why?...
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...
Communicating is something we do almost automatically and unconsciously on a daily basis. Like breathing. We rarely stop and reflect if our way of communicating is actually effective and what we could do to improve it. Added to this, we rarely receive direct feedback about our communication style. Sometimes, we notice that we don’t...
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...
The truth is, compliance training can be tough to implement. It’s probably the training that employees are least excited about. It’s no wonder that many companies treat it as a mere checkbox exercise. Actually, compliance training fulfills an important function because the ever-changing demands of today’s regulatory environment won’t ease off anytime soon. Here’s...
Innovation is critical for any business that wants to avoid becoming obsolete or being taken over by the competition. According to a McKinsey study, 84% of executives agree that innovation is essential for their growth strategy, but only 6% are satisfied with their innovation performance. That brings us to the key question: How can a...
How many millennials (everyone born in the 1980s and 90s) work in your organisation at the moment? Chances are, that this generation will make up as much as 75% of the workforce by 2025. This challenges HR departments to already start adapting to the different needs of millennials. What makes millennials different? Born into...