September 20, 2018
“Candidates have so many options today. If a company requires a degree, two rounds of interviews and a test for hard-skills, candidates can go down the street to another employer who will make them an offer that day,” points out Amy Glaser, senior vice president of Adecco Group. This statement perfectly describes the current state […]
August 21, 2018
After getting the final approval from executives to implement a new learning and development program in your company, you’re more than excited to share useful content with employees to upgrade their knowledge and skills and drive business growth. You set your expectations high, hoping that this training initiative will improve ROI, decrease the forgetting curve, […]
August 13, 2018
The adoption of learning and development practices is often anything but simple for companies with multiple departments. To make training efficient, organizations have to turn their training platform into a scalable, collaborative network that provides individualized learning tied to every employee’s performance. Moreover, in big companies, training platforms also ensure the smooth and quick adoption of […]
July 24, 2018
Why do some companies succeed while others fail? Why is it so difficult to perform at a high level? And what is the best way to improve performance? The key to a company’s success is to keep the level of employees’ performance and engagement high. But such high-performance culture in the workplace demands a lot […]
July 3, 2018
As the main competitive advantage of any business is its people, investment in their ongoing learning and development seems to be the best solution for those who want to succeed. At Fortive, Kaizen, the process of continuous improvement, lies at the heart of everything its employees do—from the factory floor to the boardroom. We spoke […]
June 27, 2018
When you need to learn how to bake cookies for a family reunion, you usually don’t sign up for courses in culinary school, right? You google a two-three minute video on YouTube, follow easy steps, spending an hour or so cooking–and voila! Everything is ready. You had a difficult task—you found a quick solution. The […]
June 19, 2018
When you read any news today, there is a lot of talk about AI and robots taking over the world. Even such thought leaders as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have warned us that AI poses a great threat to humanity and that we should act now to save the future. While these case scenarios […]
June 12, 2018
In the modern, globally-oriented workplace, it’s not unusual for employees to work under the same business umbrella with people from different countries. The abundance of technologies takes collaboration to a whole new level: the level of productive relationships. As a matter of fact, we are not even talking about the growing tendency towards remote work […]
June 7, 2018
In April, two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks after the store manager called the police. The men asked for a bathroom code but were denied because they were sitting in the coffee shop, had not ordered anything, and refused to leave. They said they were waiting for a friend, who arrived after […]
May 29, 2018
To thrive and prosper in the competitive age, leading companies like Google, Amazon, Uber, and Apple pay much attention to building strong teams consisting of the best talent. They know that every newly joined employee can either help their company to move forward or slow it down. In the book Leading Organizations, McKinsey senior […]