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...]
Why It’s Your Job to Close the Skills Gap and How You Can Do It
Economists and researchers like to argue about whether there’s any evidence for a skills gap, but as a recent article in Inc. points out, if you cannot find qualified candidates for your business, it doesn’t matter what the rest of the country is doing. You have a skills gap. Those who agree that there is a skills gap love to argue about whose fault it is. The schools aren’t preparing students for today’s jobs. The government isn’t supporting skills development. Millennials are hard to train. … [Read more...]
Is your company know-how about to leave? How to close the skills gap before it opens.
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...]