Train Your Workers, Develop Your Leaders

Some managers view training and development as the same thing, whereas they are actually distinctly different. Managers sometimes send their employees to training courses expecting them to return with a new set of behaviors that will make them more effective as leaders—and are then disappointed by the results.
Leadership training helps people learn new skills and [...]

A Reliable Predictor of Job Performance

Predicting who will be a top performer is the Holy Grail of the hiring process. There are so many variables that drive job success, however, that hiring managers frequently drop any pretense of a scientific approach and end up trusting their gut.
Unfortunately this can reject viable candidates and produce a “cloning effect” (hiring in your [...]

Diagnosing Our Immunity to Change

Why do we find it so hard to change? Think of all your New Year’s resolutions that remain unfulfilled or your gym membership that goes unused because you find it so hard to change your old ways.
What stops you changing—or as Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey ask it in their book “Immunity to Change: [...]

How the recession has impacted people’s career goals

The current recession has forced many people to rethink their career goals. Unfortunately some people have put their careers on hold while thinking that they will pick it up again in a year or two when things get better…this is probably not a good idea!
Yes, due to the recession there is a lack of [...]

7 Best Practices for Developing E-Learning Content

Despite the current tough economy, forward looking organizations continue to invest in developing their human capital. In the past, employees were trained in the skills needed for a specific job, however in this rapidly changing business environment, cross-training can help employees to be more versatile. E-learning has become an increasingly used training tool due [...]

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