With all you have to contend with, it’s important to remain proactive about your employees’ anti-harassment training. New York State requires every business to provide its employees—even if you only have one—with anti-harassment training once every 12 months—and as soon as possible for new hires. You also need to provide notice to all employees, even if they’re working primarily from home.
Read moreIt’s Not Just Fun & Games: The Case for Anti-harassment Training
We get it. You have enough on your plate to add one more task, especially a mandated anti-sexual harassment training. Ugh! This may be worse than being forced to eat vegetables when you were a kid!
Read moreWe Go Together… Even When It Seems Like We Don’t
When I started working at Gillespie Associates, however, I left behind daily tasks filled mostly with numbers to join a creative, word-oriented team used to much more ambiguity in their work life. For instructional designers—IDs—dozens if not hundreds of different approaches can help them translate a client‘s project from idea to award-winning training. Coming from a place where 2 + 2 always equaled 4 in a linear, defined process, I wondered how I would fit in.
Read moreWriting Your Content: The Building Blocks of Effective Training
Do you ever find yourself listening to a friend or loved one’s story and unable to determine what happened because they forget to tell you important details? Or getting so lost in their details and asides that you lose their point? It’s kind of funny when it’s at home… but when you’re trying to understand how to perform a new task or integrate a concept into your daily routine, poor communication is a problem.
Read moreFive Actions Necessary to Create Training that Makes a Difference
I’m often asked how to make training more effective, and I always share the five actions I think are critical to creating training that makes a difference. Read on to find out what five things I think are most important to effective training.
Read moreHow to Radically Increase Engagement in Your Training Programs
Every developer, HR manager, or other individual responsible for training struggles with a lack of employee engagement in training. “It’s hard enough to get employees to complete required compliance training programs, so forget about getting them to complete anything optional,” is the sentiment we hear often from frustrated HR professionals. Why is it so hard to get employees to engage in training?
Read moreTraining with the End in Mind
The training manager described multiple interactions between the field reps and the customer. I immediately saw the connection between training engineers in customer relationship building and the business goal of increasing sales. Unfortunately, the training manager did not make that connection.
Read moreDisengaged Employees Are Dangerous to Your Team Health
Fifty-one percent of the workforce just shows up. Their disengagement from their work suggests they mark time while there, largely neutral toward what they do and the organization’s goals. Wondering what you can do about them?
Read moreFour Lessons in Good Training Design I Learned from My Kindergartner
Tantrums in corporate classrooms may look a little different than a kindergartner's tantrum, a tantrum is a tantrum and should be avoided at all costs. Here are four lessons that I learned from these five-year-old besties.
Read moreShow It, Don't Say It! An Interactive Post
A picture is worth a thousand words is true in training, as well. In this post, you get the opportunity to compare a static table with an interactive graphic. Trust me, there's no comparison!
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