Commentary & Opinion
Mentoring meets the Metaverse
With the right application, the Metaverse can have a transformative effect on the mentor and mentee.
The 2 sides of boss/employee feedback
Giving and receiving feedback without judgment — whether up or down the hierarchy — is a best practice for any leader who strives to achieve both great relationships and great results.
Strategy + Culture: A formula for finding and keeping female talent
Successfully attracting and retaining female talent is a multi-layered process.
3 steps to retaining talented people
Keeping in mind that labor shortages are one of the top concerns facing employers in 2023, here are three steps you can take to retain your talented people.
How our brains learn to hate
As leaders, we are being watched. With that comes responsibility — to understand and to model antidotes.
From either/or to both/and — honoring polarities
People are inherently drawn to trends and top 10 lists, but it is essential that we do not fall into either/or mindsets. As people leaders, we are responsible for creating a space where polarities of thought and multiple perspectives can thrive.
Making your L&D budget recession-proof: 7 strategies to take now
Unfortunately, when it’s time to reduce budgets, learning is often the first budget to go.
Top challenges for L&D leaders in 2023
What is the one thing that has remained constant throughout the past three years?
Fear not! How you’ll survive the ‘Skillspocalypse’
We all know it is imperative to have the right skills to stay competitive and innovative, but is there really a major skills crisis on our hands?
A framework for discoverability
Perhaps understandably, changes in working practices resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic will have led many organizations creating or purchasing more learning content as means of meeting their upskilling and reskilling targets. But, for learning content, more is not more.
Developing a skills transition roadmap for a redesigned job role
When job roles are redesigned in the enterprise, the journey to ease the impacted employees into such positions and acquire the right skills is often challenging and unsustainable.
Learning transfer requires a learning workflow solution
Learning transfer is dependent on behavior change and generating reliable behavior change is dependent on using a learning workflow.
It’s time to redesign organized learning
It's time to reboot how we learn and provide learning solutions that impact people and business outcomes.
The many faces of retention
In some ways, quiet quitting can be even more insidious than out-and-out resigning, especially when it comes to early career women and women returning to the workforce.
Ten advantages of face-to-face instructor-led training
Though e-learning is undoubtedly effective, there are many instances in which face-to-face instructor-led training is still the best solution.