pandemic
Turning crisis into opportunity: Get perspective and lead together
When business conditions change suddenly and drastically and the future appears uncertain, getting your bearings and choosing a clear, deliberate path forward is a daunting task. Here are five key steps that you and your team can take to clearly frame the challenges you face and lead together.
To overcome business disruption, take a front-line-first approach
Eighty percent of the global workforce is on the front line. Disruption may have changed the way they do their jobs, but they remain the ultimate driver of business success, and we should invest in their development.
Work, culture and COVID-19
The need to address the technological requirements of online work is immediate, but finding IT solutions without addressing the cultural and emotional impact of COVID-19 on your employees is, at best, a half-baked quick fix.
Leveraging strengths as a learning team through COVID-19
Sunbelt Rentals’ senior director of talent development and education reflects on the learning team’s experiences from the early stages of the pandemic until now — and how a willingness to flex to the demands of one’s environment is essential.
Case study: Training nurses in a pandemic
A small Swedish tech firm helped Mount Sinai develop COVID-19 training for nurses at the epicenter of the crisis. Now the training is available free to hospitals across the globe.
From hardship to hardiness: 5 strategies for turning crisis into a catalyst for leadership development
COVID-19 is the type of crucible event that has the potential to embed profound leadership lessons, accelerate development, and forge critical skills. It can be transformative, but only if handled correctly.
Re-entry in a recession
This time is an opportunity to focus on outreach, inclusion and training.
Virtual learning: the future of classroom training
Jim Guilkey, founder and president of S4 NetQuest, says we need to think critically about how we transform learning for a post-coronavirus workplace.
My pandemic learning lessons
Here are 10 takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lessons for learning leaders from COVID-19
While there’s still much ahead, learning leaders and their organizations have come a long way since the pandemic started.
The rise of e-learning
Based on the events of 2020 so far, it’s no surprise that e-learning is accelerating. But what does that mean for the future?
Note to men: Mentor her! (Yes, even during a pandemic)
There are a number of strategies for leveraging telementoring to deliberately engage in crucial developmental relationships with women.
The rest is still unwritten
Whatever our “new normal” or our “next normal” ends up being, we look forward to continued investment in and dedication to the power and future of learning.
A season of firsts
After years of small steps and halting progress, all of us have begun a grand experiment in a new way of working.
The rise of outskilling: a new lifeline for the post-COVID economy
As the pace of change accelerates, a growing number of employers are turning to a new, and perhaps counterintuitive, education benefit: training for employees who will eventually leave their organization.