Effective & Ineffective Uses of Anonymous Feedback

Performance appraisals, performance management, and feedback have been evolving in one form or another for over 50 years. When it comes to feedback, everyone has an opinion on how feedback should be given and received. Recently, there have been a number of discussions about anonymous performance feedback. Advocates of this type of feedback believe employees […]

Creating the Perfect Employee Development Plan in 2019

Over the past few years, HR and business leaders alike have realized the importance of L&D’s evolution to a more ROI-driven department. In other words, there has been a paradigm shift in both L&D’s approach (using analytics to determine ROI) and execution (using technology-enabled solutions) to give employees and organizations a more objective path for […]

Top Competencies Your Employees Must Develop To Stay Relevant!

Historically, in L&D, employee evaluation focused mainly on knowledge acquisition as the primary source of evaluation. Did the employee attend the necessary workshop? Did they complete their mandatory training? In fact, Most IDP’s would highlight a few “courses” the employees need to take as a check the box exercise. Reality is, as we progress into […]

The Paradox of the User Experience – Why Learning Platforms Struggle Where Other Apps Succeed?

We at Sproutlogix have been working on using technology to improve the enterprise learning experience. One problem that we struggled with initially and that took us some time to get our heads around, is building a good user experience for enterprise learning. In most organizations, the engagement on their learning platform is about 20%, and […]

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SMART GOALS

One could say that the whole human endeavor is geared toward setting and achieving goals. Accomplishments, like sending someone to the moon or inventing self-driving cars, are the result of a goal that was set and realized. If you look closely, goals are part of every aspect of life: Whether it’s work or personal, everything […]

7 Ways To Optimize Learning To Improve Employee Productivity

1. Create an ecosystem for remote learning With Learning tech having come so far, 2019 could be a great year to build a more tech-driven learning environment within your organization. Introducing learning via apps and web can allow your workforce to focus on their development at their convenience, leaving more productive time during the week […]

DEEP LEARNING AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING ARE THE NEW TRENDS OF DATA SCIENCE

As humans, we learn in a more fluid and robust manner than computers have been able to, thus far from many basic recognition tasks. Many problems that challenge computers even today are trivial for humans. We easily recognize faces in varying lighting conditions, orientations, and more, even when seeing with them for the first time. […]

How L&D Can Garner That Coveted Spot at the ‘C’ Table…

For many organizations, select members are generally involved in key business decision makings. These are usually people who are considered to have both influence and power to make decisions and effect change. In many cases, they determine the company’s future progression, decide on the nature of products and services to be offered, and architect the […]

L&D shouldn’t just focus on HIPOs!

Today, HR teams are obsessed with gauging employee behavior, work patterns and identify key characteristics/personas. Among these, specialized programs for HIPO or high-potential employees have fast gained popularity. What is a HIPO? While definitions tend to vary, a HIPO employee is demarcated on the basis of probability and judged as someone, who, in the future, […]

Adaptive Learning Will Transform L&D. This is How…

Last week I wrote an article on Transforming L&D to Generate a Greater ROI where I highlighted that there must be a paradigm shift to transform L&D into a productive and profitable function. In this article, I also describe specific, “counters and metrics for assessing L&D impacts” towards improving productivity and retention. I believe the […]