The latest thinking on how to develop, engage and retain your talent

When employees have to contend with a poor learning experience, engagement and adoption suffer, resulting in low impact and low ROI. But with the right strategy in place, you can transform the learning experience into something that drives real, tangible results for employees and the business.

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To optimize growth and development in today's environment, we must ditch individual development planning (IDP) meetings for collaborative development planning (CDP). It's time to leverage the idea of crowdsourcing to render development planning relevant again. More minds, more perspectives and more input are required to ensure the kind of growth that employees expect and organizations need.

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How do you create a sustainable, value-for-money learning culture when you can almost envisage the emails headed "learning opportunity" being deleted en masse almost before they've hit anyone's inboxes? Clearly no one in the generous-to-a-fault L&D industry would ever begrudge another's success but trying to create a learning culture is a widespread challenge.

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In a recent speech at a large HR conference, Phil LeNir, president of CoachingOurselves, made a rather surprising claim: he said we don't learn by listening. Now the obvious response is, "Well, of course! Everyone knows we really learn by doing." But LeNir had a different take: his view is that we learn by talking.

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One of the neuroscience methods to incentivize people is loss aversion: the fear of losing something or the fear of missing out. We feel losses about twice as strongly as we feel wins, and although this may sound harsh, focusing on losing gives people more of a drive to avoid it. Turning loss into an opportunity can better employee learning and employee training.

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Today is officially/unofficially Leave the Office Early Day. Yes, really. While it's not a day observed by any governments around the world (yet), there are many reasons why organizations across the globe should take part. This isn't some clever trick for employees to skip out on work - it's a way to recognize your team for their achievements and encourage employee wellness.

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There are a ton of benefits to investing in employee training and learning and development initiatives. It can help ensure that your employees have the skills needed to do their jobs today, the capacity to support future business growth, and help keep them on board for the long haul. But here's the thing: not all of our employees are equal when it comes to development.

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As a result of this partnership, recruitment outsourcers can look forward to several pieces of collaborative content produced jointly between our talent acquisition business unit and the RPOA. The intent is to educate organisations about the recruitment outsourcing industry and promote RPO as a strategic hiring solution for organisations seeking to reach their highest potential through their people.

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High-performing individuals naturally stand out, but it is not always easy to pinpoint what they specifically do that others don't. This detail means that assessing leadership can sometimes become an exercise in "I know it when I see it." It's important to learn to recognize specific actions that help identify the budding leader who may not quite stand out above the rest.

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