Soft Skills For The Future: These 5 Are Game Changers Historically, in L&D, an employee’s learning goals focused mainly on knowledge acquisition as the primary source of evaluation. Did the employee attend the necessary workshops? Did they complete their mandatory training? In fact, most IDPs highlight a few “courses” the employees need to take as a check-the-box exercise. The truth is, that this no longer […]
How Do We Measure The Success Of Workplace Training? As a life-long learner, I have taken my fair share of tests, assessments, and exams throughout my academic and professional life. As a learner, taking some sort of assessment is often the means to an end. It’s the way to pass the class, get a degree, attain a certification, add labels to the end of […]
L&D – THE DRIVING FORCE IN EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT The global business environment is getting more and more complex! Rapid changes in political, economic, technological and regulatory landscape further add to the complexity. Shortages in skilled labor also heighten complications, even more so in APAC! According to Korn Ferry, they predict a shortage of highly skilled workers will be 12-32% in each Asian Country […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
