Tips to Retain Your Employees — Career Development and Training

Welcome back to our Friday blog on tips for employee retention. This week we are looking at career development and training. You can check back every Friday for a new tip on employee retention. Career development and training are related strategies that both increase the ability for employees to contribute to an organization and allow […]

How to Build an Employee Training Program

As we have established in the previous employee training programs blog post, employees are the number one resource that any business has available to them. Of course, as with all things, employees will need a level of training and development if they are to be able to reach their full potential. For successful organizations, this training will […]

This Simple Approach Will Help Your People Learn Twice as Fast

Imagine this: a new piece of technology comes along that could dramatically increase your team’s productivity. That’s great news, but it means the people on your team need to learn something new. And learning takes time, sometimes lots of it. Unfortunately, some recent research reveals that the way most of us are taught makes learning something new more […]

Surprising Myths About Training Learned the Hard Way

Here’s a challenge a leader I know faced last year. Paul was head of a customer service team for a company that had recently launched a new line of products. Soon after the launch, it became clear that Paul’s team was struggling to provide the same high quality of customer service they normally provided for […]