Categories: Employee Training

Employee development is defined as creating avenues and facilities to give your employees new and advanced skills and knowledge. This is different from staff training because training is mostly done to new employees during orientation while development “takes place” with employees who have worked in an organization for a while. Hence training is the process…

With the boom of LMS systems in the wake of the SaaS revolution, and an ever growing movement to shake old, much maligned tropes for handling education and training, people are in a rush to discover effective and well-documented computer based training methods that will allow them to realize these goals. Of course, there are…

The concept of an employee performance improvement plan, by its classical definition, is not at all what it seems to be. Traditionally these plans, often referred to as PIPs, are nothing short of a scare tactic incentive to motivate employees who aren’t appearing to be up to snuff for one reason or another. An employee…

When trying to determine what the most important employee development goals are in a given situation, it’s hard to provide a blanket set of answers, because holy crap is this the biggest example of “every unique situation shapes this totally differently”. So, if you came here hoping for a basic set of best practices or…

Cross training employees is becoming an increasingly popular measure taken in a lot of businesses, and there’s a good explanation for that. When employees are capable of handling, skillfully, things outside their normal purview, it creates flexibility and adaptability in an organization that gives it the capacity to deal with all kinds of problems. This…

Having the right environment can take things a very long way. When you create an environment that enforces the right type of attitude and work ethic, you get a much more productive workforce. The same can be said about having a healthy learning environment for employee training. When you have the right environment, you help…

Employee training evaluation can be a tricky part of the training process for a number of reasons. We all kind of dread handling that, and it’s understandable. There are a host of issues, from capturing data properly, accurately performing measurements and assessments, and of course, how to approach people with the conclusions reached both positively…