According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Half of all senior outside hires fail within 18 months in a new position. Half of all hourly workers leave new jobs within the first 120 days. And over 40% of the people who leave a company every year do so in their first six months. But research has shown that 91% of first-year employees are retained in companies that have a formal onboarding program. Check out the video below for some quick tips. Or click here to … [Read more...]
How to Solve Accountability Problems at Work
As a manager, do you struggle with recurring performance problems? Are you trying to maintain quality with a growing team or grappling with organizational change? If so, your group may be suffering from a lowered sense of accountability. Fortunately, you can turn that around. But first, it’s important to point out that accountability is never about blaming people for mistakes, punishing poor results, or micromanaging. Those tactics degrade employees’ autonomy and discourage open … [Read more...]
Training Not Working? Realign with Your Strategy and Reunite with Your Business
One of the recurring frustrations with training programs is that they don’t make a real impact on business performance. Granted, it’s difficult to pinpoint cause and effect between training and overall business success, but often the two don't reflect the same priorities. If that sounds familiar, realign your focus and reunite training with the business. Then you’ll see positive results for your efforts. Realign your training focus. If you're not satisfied with your current program, you're not … [Read more...]
How to Make a Newly Promoted Employee Successful [Video]
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Are you getting ready for the next round of promotions for 2018? If so, start your planning now to make sure your star employees succeed in their new roles. Check out the video below to learn how to provide career climbers with the support they need. Read more about how you can help rising stars shine here. Thanks to Bensound for the music and to Noun Project for the icons: lightning by omar vargas, falling star by Image Catalog, mentor by irene hoffman, … [Read more...]
From Drudge to Dream: How to Change Your Job Into a Passion
We’ve all heard the advice to follow our dreams and do what we’re passionate about, but if you have a mortgage and a family, it’s not so easy. Even if you’re working toward career freedom in a few years, what can you do now to add passion and go from drudge job to dream job? The answer: start learning something new. Right now. A recent Inc. article points out that passion pushes you to learn and excel, but it works both ways. Learning and improving your skills can also bring out your … [Read more...]
The Key Ingredient for Good Soft Skills: Experience
These days when robots and computers can handle more and more technical jobs, our competitive edge as humans increasingly depends on non-technical soft skills. According to a research overview by the National Soft Skills Association, 85% of job success comes from “well-developed soft and people skills” while only 15% comes from technical knowledge. And Bruce Tulgan, founder of Rainmaker Thinking, writes for Training Magazine that “Nine times out 10, an unsuccessful hire fails due to soft skills, … [Read more...]
No-Nonsense Employee Training: The Best Articles of This Week
Every week, I read dozens of articles about management, human resources, and employee development. I look for advice grounded in reality that small and large companies can easily use to help people engage, perform, and improve. I've pulled the best ones from this week so you can get right to the good stuff. How to Deal with Participants from Hell We’ve all been there. Sometimes you have people in your courses who seem determined to undermine your every effort. Before you lead another … [Read more...]
The Top Learning Strategies of Wildly Successful People
It’s well known today that one of the key habits for success is continuous learning. Look up any list of the habits of highly successful people, and you’ll find some form of learning, reading, and practicing on almost all of them. And that makes sense. Reaching your goals usually requires adopting new skills. If you want to get promoted, you need management skills. If you want to own your own business, you need management, accounting, marketing, and operations know-how (at least). So how … [Read more...]
Video: How to Create Training Your Boss Loves
When budgets tighten training is often the first program to get axed. But what if you could create a program that clearly and demonstrably improves business results? Here's a short slideshow video that outlines the principles and process of creating training your boss will love and keeping your curriculm off the chopping block. … [Read more...]
Video: 9 Proven Ways to Foster Collaboration
Employees who work together bring in higher revenue and lower costs. Helping your team collaborate could be the most profitable thing you do this year. Learn how with these 9 proven steps. … [Read more...]