CIOs Turn to Training to Retain Employees
When it comes to retention strategies, most people think of salary increases, beefed-up benefits and more flexible schedules. However, according to a new survey, executives are increasingly using another method to retain employees: training. In a recent survey...
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What’s the Difference between Learning and Training?
The words learning and training have six letters in common and touch the same field of interest—education. Often the words are used interchangeably, but some say there is a subtle distinction between the two. Of course, definitions for that distinction vary according to whom you ask. Some learning leaders feel that…
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Survey: Companies are Developing High-Potentials, Not Recruiting as Much
The biggest source of an organization’s future leaders has become their own high-potential employees. Companies are more frequently developing their own fast-track employees into future senior managers than they are promoting their current executives into upper management or recruiting leaders from outside their organizations…
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Creating an Environment that Facilitates Informal Learning
There are dozens of different ways to dispense learning and development opportunities to teach, encourage use of learning tools and otherwise foster acquisition of the skills and knowledge required to enhance performance and create the bottom line impact that all organizations want. But informal learning, the kind that happens between co-workers outside the classroom, should not be discounted. Studies have shown that…
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New-Hire Failure Linked to Interpersonal Skills
Many hiring executives undoubtedly wish they could turn back the clock and rewind to that fateful interview that ultimately led to all the trouble. The employee who seemed so right had turned into one of the department’s biggest mistakes: This is a common scenario. A new study that examines why new hires fail…
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