With low unemployment levels and a tight labor market, a lot of companies feel the pressure to find the right talent to get work done. In the world of constant technological disruptions, the shrinking half-life of skills, emerging and fluid job roles, and the upcoming 2030 workforce crisis, there’s a need for innovative thinking at […]

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” James Humes No matter how you slice it, Humes’ quote perfectly describes a crucial attribute of any successful leader. The definition of leadership itself presupposes an individual’s ability to effectively communicate with different groups of people, including employees, customers, investors, and stakeholders among others. Moreover, leaders […]

We’ve all heard the old joke about two CEOs debating whether they should train their employees and be afraid that they will leave to work at some other company or leave things as they are and “enjoy” the retention of poorly-skilled people. Today, all executives know that those who ask themselves “to train or not […]

To retain employees, you should engage them and create a working environment that lets employees perform at their best. A thoughtfully-designed L&D strategy can help you with that. However, to build a learning strategy that will encompass the specifics of how employees learn and to construct a learning environment that will encourage them to learn […]

“Culture of growth” has recently become a buzzword in the L&D world. The approach that has the enablement of a growth mindset in its core is a subject to mention in discussions about the Future of Work. It’s been said that a culture of growth can help to adapt to new job roles and new […]

There are two primary things that are always the focus for marketing and sales initiatives: the targeting audience’s background and goals (or pain points). This data helps to position your product in the most beneficial way for your customers. The same works for the implementation of L&D initiatives: Data about your employees’ background should be […]

We’ve heard a lot about employee engagement impacting a healthy, collaborative, and goal-oriented workplace culture as well as overall company productivity. In the world of a multitude of choices for L&D technologies today, a learning platform that is created with the learner in mind is winning the battle against legacy LMS systems that are all […]

At the workplace, people struggle with multiple distractions and tend to lose focus. Issues with attention inevitably affect their workflow and effectiveness. Work interruption, states Edward G. Brown, an efficiency and workflow consultant, can cost around six hours a day for each employee—this is the data from 2015; the scale of the annual loss of […]

Big data keeps challenging different industries, and learning and development is no exception. Companies want to be data-driven, but when they start mining data, the difficulty in connecting numbers and statistics to real business KPIs becomes apparent. Even if your LXP (Learning Experience Platform) collects data, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to use […]

Continuous, personalized employee training is a large part of effective in-house talent development. However, it’s not the endpoint. Sometimes even high-skilled employees equipped with the latest technologies encounter difficulties and fail in completing tasks. Yes, poor performance happens but you shouldn’t be afraid of it; on the contrary, it’s your chance to bring in modifications […]