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HR Insights, Training & Development

The Quest for Excellence: It’s Why Learning Never, Ever Ends

by on Jan 30, 2012, 7:45 AM  |  No comments yet
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“I will be glad when this is all over. I will never have to study anything anymore.”

That was a statement from my daughter during finals week in her senior year of college at Penn State. She sounded worn out. As I listened on the other end of the phone, I looked at my watch and realized it was too late to respond to that. I knew she was not in the mood to be receptive.

Last week, I was in Pittsburgh leading two seminars for the Human Capital Institute (I am a faculty member). As I spoke, I kept emphasizing the need for constant learning.

As I thought of that statement I realized the model for professional learning and development has changed tremendously. There once was a time when I would choose to attend a couple of learning events per year. When I returned from them, the vast majority of the time the courseware would eventually end up in the credenza in my office. Read more…

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Training & Development

Maximizing the ROI on Employee Training with Mobile Learning

by on Jan 19, 2012, 8:50 AM  |  1 comment
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No executive in their right mind would argue with the fact that employee training is a basic business necessity. When organizations experience growth, change or competitive pressure, gaps emerge between what employees know and what they need to know in order for the company to remain relevant in the marketplace.

Good training bridges those gaps and impacts bottom line measurements like productivity gains, cost reductions and customer satisfaction levels as well as improvements in employee safety, morale and team building.

But here’s the rub: According to the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), U.S. businesses invest more than $125 billion per year in employee learning and development. That’s a lot of cash. Yet in today’s economic climate, employers and HR teams are being asked to do more with less – and for many executives, that means carefully calculating the costs, benefits and potential returns they will receive from learning technologies before they invest. Read more…

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HR Management, Talent Management

10 Employee Engagement-Destroying Perceptions You Cannot Afford

by on Jan 13, 2012, 9:37 AM  |  2 Comments
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If you want to improve employee engagement, boost employee morale, and maximize employee productivity, you cannot simply do the “right things.”

It’s not enough to model best practices demonstrated by employers such as Zappos, Southwest Airlines, and other denizens of the various Best Places to Work lists. You need to identify and eliminate the “wrong things.”

By “wrong,” I mean the organizational and managerial practices that squelch employee engagement and crush employee morale. If you’re doing these, you can guarantee that your workforce is running on only a couple of cylinders. If you are doing these, you can also guarantee that your employees are only mildly interested in producing the best quality product or service. Read more…

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Best of TLNT

Looking to 2012: 14 HR Predictions, and Balancing the Global Workforce

by on Dec 28, 2011, 9:40 AM  |  No comments yet
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To Our Readers: This week, TLNT is continuing our annual tradition by counting down the 30 most popular and well-read posts of this past year. This is No. 16. Our regular content will return on Monday January 2, 2012.

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This is the time when we not only start to review the trends and events of the past year, but also when we gaze into our crystal ball and try to get a fix on what might be out there in front of us in the year to come.

Since my own prognosticating abilities aren’t always so good, I like to sort through what various experts and analysts are predicting instead. That’s why I always look forward to what the folks at Bersin & Associates have to say in their forecast of the year to come. Read more…

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Men are from Mars, Women from Venus, but Gen iY is from Another System

by on Dec 27, 2011, 12:35 PM  |  No comments yet
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To Our Readers: This week, TLNT is continuing our annual tradition by counting down the 30 most popular and well-read posts of this past year. This is No. 19. Our regular content will return on Monday January 2, 2012.

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By Dr. Tim Elmore

I had an unforgettable conversation with a friend recently. He employs hundreds of people and just hired some recent college graduates.

He told me he planned to see a therapist, which was a bit surprising since he is a healthy, well-adjusted company president. When asked why, he said he was unable to cope with the number of mothers accompanying their 22-year-old son or daughter on job interviews to negotiate their salary package.

Furthermore, he mentioned that one mother had returned six months after her son was hired to see why he had not received a raise yet. After all, he had shown up to work on time for six months. Read more…

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7 Ways That Social Media Is Changing Talent Management and HR

by on Dec 27, 2011, 7:37 AM  |  No comments yet
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To Our Readers: This week, TLNT is continuing our annual tradition by counting down the 30 most popular and well-read posts of this past year. This is No. 24. Our regular content will return on Monday January 2, 2012.

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Editor’s Note: Dr. John Sullivan has been a strategist in HR and talent management for over 30 years. His specialty is HR strategy and designing world class HR systems and tools for Fortune 200 firms. He’s never been shy about telling it like it is. That’s why TLNT asked him to share his thinking in a video series titled “$#*!@ Dr. John Sullivan Says!” 

“When you talk to business people these days — HR people also — the buzz is social media,” Dr. John Sullivan says. ”Some people think it is just a fad, while other people think it has major impact.”

Well, it’s not a fad, according to Dr. John, and here’s why: because it changes the way we are going to do business and is “probably the most important change in the last century when it comes to HR.” Read more…

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HR Insights

A Simple, Sure-Fire, Easy-to-Follow Recipe for Success

by on Dec 16, 2011, 7:37 AM  |  1 comment
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I was reminded last night that success doesn’t just come to you, and it might not necessarily be about hard work and attitude, like your Dad would always say.

Too often, we (the collective lot of us!) want to believe success is like the lotto. Too often we hope to get success that way – one day you don’t have success, then the next day success somehow miraculously finds you!

Sorry. It doesn’t usually work that way.

But one thing we overlook is how important success is to finding success. Here’s what I mean: Read more…

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HR News & Trends, Training & Development

Study: Employers Are Unhappy With Preparation of Recent College Grads

by on Dec 8, 2011, 9:35 AM  |  3 Comments
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According to yet another new survey, America’s employers believe that colleges and universities and not adequately preparing students for success after graduation.

While this is not a revelation to those who’ve listened to the collective moans of employers over the last decade, what is surprising is that this particular study is not one conducted by a conservative pro-business organization or publication, but one produced by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.

In other words, even the governing bodies of higher education are starting to get it that higher education hasn’t yet got it. Read more…

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HR News & Trends

Looking to 2012: 14 HR Predictions, and Balancing the Global Workforce

by on Dec 1, 2011, 11:22 AM  |  3 Comments
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This is the time when we not only start to review the trends and events of the past year, but also when we gaze into our crystal ball and try to get a fix on what might be out there in front of us in the year to come.

Since my own prognosticating abilities aren’t always so good, I like to sort through what various experts and analysts are predicting instead. That’s why I always look forward to what the folks at Bersin & Associates have to say in their forecast of the year to come.

The latest report – Strategic Human Resources and Talent Management: Predictions for 2012 – Driving Organizational Performance amidst an Imbalanced Global Workforce – predicts that “leading-edge HR teams will drive competitive advantage for their organizations by building a borderless, agile workplace with new and changed talent and learning strategies in 2012.” Read more…

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Classic TLNT

Some Holiday Week Wisdom: How to Have More Energy, Less Stress

by on Nov 24, 2011, 9:50 AM  |  No comments yet
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Editor’s Note: This is only TLNT’s second holiday season, but there’s a lot of great content you might have missed at this time last year. So for the next two weeks, we’re republishing a daily “Classic TLNT” holiday post that might help you cope with the season (and your workplace) a little bit better. 

No one cares how hard you work.

Your company can absorb an unlimited amount of work from you, and they won’t appreciate it. It’s up to you to change things.

Re-write the script of how your job impacts your happiness and fulfillment. Fire the current writers that keep putting you in crappy, soul-sucking scenes, and start writing your own new screen play for the time you spend at work. Read more…

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