All Blog Posts Tagged 'training' (27)

Recognize This! – A desire to increase employee engagement is useless without commitment and follow-through.

Gallup issued a brilliant case study of Stryker, a global medical devices company. Focusing on just one unit in New Jersey, the case study highlights several key tenets of success for an employee engagement or strategic employee recognition program.

1)      Be…

Some have pushed for the notion that leaning functions should become profit centers. How should we treat learning and development? What are the implications for treating employee training as a self-contained business activity?

Imagine a company that treats its learning and development programs as a profit center. Training managers are responsible for their own budgets and must ensure that revenue not only covers expenses but also generates a tidy profit. Every…

The key to a successful training program is always keeping in mind what you hope to achieve in terms of behavioral change and business outcome. The time to start thinking about the end result is before you write any content for your program.

You want to build training programs that will have an impact. Participants will return to their jobs and immediately put what they learned to use. But the impact doesn't end there. It's felt throughout the organization and…

It can be difficult at the best of times to gauge the impact that your recent training program had on business results. For some programs, it may seem well nigh impossible. Here is an example of just such a program and my suggestions for your options in isolating the impact of your program from other influences on results.

Just as there's more than one way to skin a cat, there's more than one way to evaluate a training program. My previous post on…

You and your organization invested

time and money to design, implement and conduct training for a group of employees. Now comes the hard part: Determining whether the program had any impact on the business.



At this point, many training managers break into a cold sweat. A business, not to mention the world, is complex. Any number of variables can affect outcomes. A training program is just one of them. But there's no reason to panic as there are many tools to help the training…

Businesses today must do everything possible to stay competitive and maintain a highly skilled, motivated staff. Despite today’s very competitive job market, employees often have little hesitation when it comes to searching for a new job if they become unhappy with their current employer. In order to keep employees satisfied, boost morale, and…