What Can We Learn from Mad Men About Company Culture and Employee Engagement

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Learning
Various lessons relating to the workplace can be learned from the popular and critically-acclaimed television series ‘Mad Men’. The show focuses on the lives of a number of employees in a 1960’s era advertising agency. Even though these are fictional characters and situations, I believe that at the end of the day, they can make…

Using Employee Training Gamification for Organizational Learning

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Learning, Organizational Training
Put your gamer pants on, folks, because today we’re going to talk about employee training gamification, and I don’t just mean a passive discussion of what it is. Gamification has, in a very brief time, gone from a quirky, edgy theory to a fully-explored and widely-employed method of engagement and retention for training as well as…

The Uniqueness of Employee Training in the Banking Industry

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Training
I want to start a series on the blog. being more industry-specific, so I hope over the coming weeks and months to focus on specific professions and various industries, and look at the uniqueness of employee training programs and strategies within each.  I hope also to be able to conduct interview with leading learning professionals…

Some Thoughts on the Role of Workplace Learning in Employee Engagement: Part 3 of a Series

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Employee Engagement
Much has been written about the importance of keeping employees engaged and motivated.  Yet what role does training play in that? I asked that question recently on an internet forum, and got a wide variety of responses.  Over the course of a few weeks, the blog will post a series of articles on the topic. …

Employee Training Tracking Software You Should Use

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Learning, Organizational Training
If you are looking for employee training software then one of the best ways to start about it is by looking at the reviews. These reviews can tell you a lot about what kind of features you can expect from each software, and how they can be used to improve your company’s employee training plan.…

5 Employee Training and Development Tips You Don’t Want to Miss

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Training
Employee training and development is a very organic thing, and whether you realize it or not, if you’re in any kind of leadership position or group dynamic, you’re initiating and undergoing it at the same time. It’s easy to think of training as something that only happens when an actual, deliberated training session is discovered to…

Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Learning, Training
Finally, we come to a topic that sounds decidedly more involved than it really is, exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. That’s a mouthful isn’t it? Well, we’re talking pretty much about observing the people within your group as units, and getting to know their strengths and their weaknesses. It’s about exploiting their strengths to offset…