What has life taught you today? Maybe it’s something small like “don’t use the microwave after Joe has.” Or maybe it’s something more profound like “a few minutes of quiet in the morning helps me get more done.” Either way, if you think about it, life has taught you something today. You and your employees learn everyday – not just from video courses, PowerPoint presentations, or white papers - but mainly from the experience of completing projects, creating products, and serving … [Read more...]
No-Nonsense Employee Training: The Best Articles of This Week
This week, we learn how to get people to collaborate better, engage employees with social learning and the arts, and calculate turnover cost. There's bonus content you can use in diversity training as well. 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 … [Read more...]
Flattening the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
If training starts in the classroom, everyone knows it doesn’t end there. As Bill Rosenthal pointed out, there is a learning curve and then there is a forgetting curve. But when it comes to employee learning and development, the forgetting curve can be a major obstacle. According to recent research, only 10-15% of what is learned in training is actually transferred back to the job. Any staff training program will need to include strategies that help employees remember what they were taught … [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. This week, I found some great pieces about adulting (that's slang for soft skills for Millennials), leadership, learning technology, and more. I look for advice grounded in reality that small and large companies can easily use to help people engage, perform, and improve. Let's get right to the good stuff. Adulting: Millennials Need Soft Skills in The Workplace [Infographic] Ok, I admit … [Read more...]
How to Train Employees Effectively: 7 Key Steps in 4 Stages
Sam Varghese, Talent Development lead for GENPACT, recently shared his experience on why many employee training programs are ineffective. His top reason was that they are not linked to business goals. His second is that they consist of mostly classroom training which is just the beginning of learning. All managers want their programs to be effective, but the keys to good staff training often lie outside the classroom. Below, I’ll describe 7 essential steps for effective learning. These are … [Read more...]
How Pract.us Gets Results Faster than Other Training Methods
Pract.us helps you speed up your training results by using work experience in the work environment as your key training tool. You get started faster. With Pract.us, you don’t have to create videos and courses. You just need to identify a behavior you want employees to learn and some resources to help them, which can include other employees. You can also start in small steps. Since you’re not creating courses or videos, you can adjust and improve your cards and skills every day based on … [Read more...]