Who had a backup plan to get around the problems a rogue volcano in Iceland caused to their training events? Tuesday I learned about an annual international conference this weekend in Washington DC where many speakers and attendees were coming from Europe and the Middle East. I don’t know yet how it turned out, but [...]
What causes high turnover? Most would say layoffs and people leaving for better opportunities. We don’t have a lot of control over those factors. However, I believe the next most important reason is employees not being able to get along with co-workers and/or the boss. This area is where training programs to reduce turnover should [...]
A white paper by Gary Lear along with his new book The Seven Elements of High Performance sheds some new light on organizational development and employee retention. Gary’s years of research shows that the human side of business is what counts the most.
How do you get employees engaged?
How do you get employees to see their [...]
Studies by Watson Wyatt showed that companies that provided any more than the basic technical skills to do the job saw a decrease in training’s ROI and no impact on high performance. Why? Many of the companies surveyed had high turnover. Thus employees were not retained on the job, so there was little point in [...]
In my opinion it is the trainer that is constantly travelling to their customers’ sites and giving the same short course over and over. For example, when a company signs up for a 401K program or a new health insurance plan, the agency sends out a trainer to give a one hour training program to [...]
