All organizations want the Superhero employees; however, it is not that simple. Training your workforce to be at their best and achieve both their personal growth goals and the organizational goals requires diligent, deliberate and intentional efforts. And, although many L&D functions follow the ADDIE model (Analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate), or they think […]
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Skills That Really Matter
Over the past 20 years, economies and the organization of work have witnessed a fundamental change in which occupations have become more complex and employees’ responsibilities have been linked more with competencies than with routine. This change has necessitated more flexibility in labour mobility and productivity, and enhanced innovative capacity of companies to assimilate new […]
4 Ways To Overcome The “Skills Gap”
Do you find difficulty in hiring skilled workers? Or, maybe your organization is not performing effectively due to a huge skills gap. I believe skilful talents are hard to find and manage. They are difficult to find because new technologies move at a very fast rate and require new skills that schools don’t teach. Very […]
Making your Onboarding Programme Effective
Imagine yourself as a new employee joining an organization and walking into the office on day one. You enter the office at 8 am. At the front-desk you are asked for the purpose of your visit. You explain that you are ‘the new guy’ and this happens to be your first day at the job. […]
The Art Of Leadership
As leaders and people managers, we have to be excellent at finding, hiring, developing and retaining top talent. Simultaneously, we have to have great strategic thinking, organizational design, manage operational issuesm perceptions and complex matrices of relationships. It’s an often thankless, unenviable task that makes us question why we tried so hard to get there […]
From VHS Tapes To The Cloud
THE BIG BANG OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The evolution of eLearning over the past few decades has been anything but gradual. The contemporary explosion of information and communication technology has directly affected the process of learning across classrooms in the academic and corporate sectors. From the VHS tape to the current day educational clouds, technology has […]
E-Learning: Better Training?
Training is expensive, and learning can be difficult to measure. But we need learning in order to move the organization and its people forward, and we need sustainable (preferably growing!) income to pay for the appropriate training. So, is there a cost-effective way of training that can show measurable results, quickly? The supporters of eLearning […]
A Slice of LIME with Online Learning
Love or hate online learning (E-learning) it has been here longer than you think. It will certainly never completely replace the social interaction of face-to-face learning, yet it does have numerous advantages. Many organizations and individuals get consumed with the idea that online learning is the only way to learn. The fact of the matter […]
Training Truths: Challenges and Coaching to Leverage Learning
You need to sustain your market share, increase profits, work smarter and increase corporate social responsibility, as well as be emotionally intelligent. You need employees with the right skills, knowledge and behaviors to communicate effectively with clients, global outlooks, managers who can coach their teams to empower them and leaders with cross-cultural experience. What’s the […]
Before You Train You Must Recruit
Before you can train and develop your team, you have to recruit them! Employee’s viewpoint…. To simplify the issue, I am looking from the viewpoint of an employee in the GCC (any nationality!) who wants to find a better job, or who has been made redundant and needs a replacement job very soon, as opposed […]