If you own a business or manage a team, you deal with employee turnover. And with our changing job culture, turnover will become more and more common. The companies who can manage it well will outperform those who don’t. In particular, you have to make sure that exiting employees don’t leave a skills gap in their wakes. According to Pew Research, roughly 10,000 baby boomers will turn 65 everyday for the next 14 years. That doesn’t mean they’ll retire immediately, but your most … [Read more...]
How to Turn the 90% into a Powerful Training Tool.
We learn up to 90% of what we need to know at work through informal learning, but we don’t spend a lot of training time and money focused on this informal process. Without a strong tradition of training through work experience, it’s hard for companies to know how to guide and manage informal learning. Pract.us solves this problem by giving teams a tool to build and manage informal learning tracks. It’s pretty well accepted today that companies focus most of their training efforts and dollars … [Read more...]