Stories from progressive companies that have successfully embedded critical skills to deliver organizational capabilities at scale and ensure employees can perform, innovate and grow in areas that are strategic to organizational success.
https://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/lessons/117854/overview?gref=TMNeBook3-5-18-20
Topics covered: A quick view of 100 years of instructional design; Where do instructional designers add value and where do they fail?; What is driving the demand for Workflow Learning – the need to bring learning while doing work?
https://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/events/1687?gref=calendar
As organizations try to improve their abilities to engage, develop, and retain high-quality employees and improve business outcomes, competencies can be a powerful tool. Competencies—the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors to successfully perform a job or job role—can serve as the foundation for most or all talent process.
https://trainingmag.com/great-roi-awaits-investors-competency-development-and-management
Most traditional learning platforms out there are outdated, complex, and loaded with unnecessary features. While some platforms may contain great content, it’s often based on long-form training such as instructor-led training—which also may be stale and not very engaging. An audience can quickly tune out and get lost with long-form content that isn’t tied together in an agile and integrated platform.
https://trainingmag.com/learning-trends-you-cannot-afford-miss-2016
– The ‘state-of-the-MOOC’ : the MOOC phenomenon has taken the higher education world by storm, and seems to trigger as much debate as participants. What are the emerging trends, platforms, proof of impact, statistics and business models? – What’s in a word? : What does MOOC mean to you? What is the essence behind the acronym? What could it mean for corporate training? – Imagine all the MOOCs : A few imaginary cases for MOOCs in corporate settings.
http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/events/193?from=path2X&query=What+Can+MOOCs+Mean+for+the+Corporate+World%3F
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With the youth unemployment rate in the U.S. reaching a record level at 17 percent, a whole new generation of students is going to college and taking the wrong majors and receiving the wrong type of degrees. The top three industries for the future:
– Health Care
– Educational Services
– Food Services and Drinking Places
http://trainingmag.c/content/unemployed-generation.
The Peter Principle describes a competent employee who continued to be promoted until he reached a job he did not have the skills to perform, where he was stuck and ultimately failed. Take a look around your department. Do you have a Peter employee? If so, could the right training and mentoring help develop the needed skills? Do you have a training program established for potential supervisors? If not, can you afford to lose other bright employees because you have neglected to give supervisors the tools they really need to succeed?
http://trainingmag.com/content/peter-principle-training
Today, organizations are utilizing training to better prepare employees, increase productivity, and maintain a competitive advantage. However, making sure training initiatives support a company’s overall mission and business strategy is easier said than done. Often, employers do not reinforce the desired behaviors and new skills that training exercises are designed to support and sustain. Top organizations, however, have realized that they should promote an atmosphere where employees are not only encouraged to learn but also are rewarded for using new skills.
http://trainingmag.com/content/training-recognitionproductive-workforce
There are experienced managers available on the outside, but there will be fewer and fewer such leaders over the next several years, there will be more competition for them, and they will be expensive to acquire. A better bet, is to develop your own future leaders, who are already trained in your culture and values, familiar with your markets and customers, and ready to step into new roles with the right training and preparation.
http://trainingmag.com/content/where-are-your-new-leaders-coming
