Category Archive For "Talent Development"
6 Tips on How to Encourage Innovation in Your Team
How can you spark new ideas and encourage innovation in your team? Innovation is so important for organizations to continue growing. But are you openly encouraging it within your own team? Are you creating a space where employees at all levels feel comfortable sharing their ideas? That’s what Matthew Brown discusses in this episode of …
LXP and LMS: How They Are Different, Yet Better Together
An accelerated reinvention of learning technologies is underway today. In 2020, the marketplace for talent platforms exploded. Many new categories have emerged—from learning experience tools and collaborative program management tools to micro-learning tools. Each category provides a different approach to learning and development, but one of the most exciting is the learning experience platform, or …
L&D Trainers: How to Offer Solutions That Differ from Your Organization’s
How can L&D trainers give the best training advice possible? What if someone asks for training, but you want to suggest an alternative? As a trusted learning professional, it’s your job to assess the need for training as well as implement it. But how do you give good advice if it’s contrary to what the …
5 Best Practices for Giving and Receiving Feedback
How much focus does your company place on feedback? Is your workplace built on a culture of feedback? By this, we mean a culture that makes it very easy for people to give and receive feedback. Feedback is integral to any group of people working together. It’s key to healthy working relationships, clear communication, and …
How to Improve Your Hiring, Onboarding, and Training in 2021
How are you approaching hiring, training and onboarding in 2021? Onboarding new hires may look very different today from how they looked this time last year. Many businesses now have a remote workforce meaning that new employees may have to be integrated and trained remotely. With traditional shoulder-to-shoulder training no longer possible for many, how …
Why Community Is Key to Overcoming Virtual Workplace Challenges
How has the pandemic impacted your workplace? The learning and development community has adapted quickly and efficiently in the face of the pandemic. The shift to remote learning remains one of the most impactful changes that this industry has ever seen. But what side effects have the community experienced as a result of this? In …
Measuring the Business Impact of L&D: First, Honor the Reality of Now
This is part one of a four-part series on how L&D teams can effectively evaluate, measure, and demonstrate the business impact of their learning and development programs. To improve how L&D teams measure and demonstrate the business impact of training, they must first honor the reality that not only has it been a challenge to …
How to Create Competency-Based Performance Reviews
Welcome to The Learning Xchange! We’re so excited to bring to you our brand-new weekly podcast, hosted by Matthew Brown, VP of Learning and Brand Success at Schoox. The Learning Xchange is a podcast that focuses on the ever-changing landscape of online learning and talent management. It is a place where L&D and HR practitioners …
Performance Management in a Pandemic: Using Disruption to Boost Effectiveness
This is the second of a two-part article on managing performance during a crisis when business objectives—and the skills needed to meet them—are constantly changing. As discussed in part one of this article, there are three actions you can take to improve the effectiveness of performance management in the current environment: Identify areas you …
Performance Management in a Pandemic: How to Set Goals Amid Constantly Changing Needs
Performance management refers to the process of setting expectations, giving feedback, and addressing performance outcomes. But how can companies set expectations with employees when business objectives are uncertain and the skills, competencies, and behaviors needed to meet those goals are constantly changing? This article is the first of two parts that focuses on laying the …
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