Reflection on Performance Boosts Productivity
Want an easy way to help your employees become more effective? Ask them to spend the end of each workday reflecting on their performance, research suggests.This Simple Daily Exercise Boosts Employee Performance. A recent study found that “employees who spent...
The benefits of mentoring
By E. Wayne Hart The benefits of mentoring are well known: It gives less experienced employees valuable feedback, insight and support, while passing down wisdom and institutional knowledge. But who can develop effective mentoring relationships with today? Whether they are...
Challenges to Corporate Learning
What do we need to change in today’s workplace to allow learning to truly transform organizations? Here are two challenging elements based on current trends in workplace learning. Culture of DeliveryPoll a group of people in the workplace about what...
Seven Ways To Be An Effective Mentor
By E. Wayne Hart The benefits of mentoring are well known: It gives less experienced employees valuable feedback, insight and support, while passing down wisdom and institutional knowledge. But who can develop effective mentoring relationships with today’s time pressures and...
VET Reform – Insources’ Contribution
VET Reform – Our Position Do we need VET Reform or continuous improvement? The short answer: we need VET Reform. But what we really need is a continuous improvement approach to the VET system. The first image that comes alive...
Building a Comprehensive Evaluation Process
Measuring and evaluating learning has earned a place among the critical issues in the learning and development and performance improvement fields. For decades, this topic has been on conference agendas and discussed at professional meeting. Journals and newsletters regularly embrace...
Facilitation Skills for face-to-face and Virtual training
Training Skills Used by the Virtual Trainer Virtual training is still training. In the next set of posts I’ll review the basic training skills used by virtual and classroom trainers alike, with special focus on what’s unique in virtual classroom....
Using ROI to Demonstrate HR Value in the Public Sector
A Review of Best Practices By Jack and Patricia PhillipsThe demand for HR’s accountability through measurement continues to increase. Here, Jack and Patti Phillips provide an overview of best practices in the return on investment (ROI) process and describe how...
So What’s the Bottom Line on ROI?
By Jack and Patti Phillips ROI, return on investment, is a metric fundamental to business and government alike. Executives and chief administrators recognize it, and business and operations managers appreciate it. It is calculated consistently and recognized across sectors around...
Linking Training Objectives to Measures of Training Success
By Jack Phillips, PhD, and Patti Phillips, PhD Before training evaluation begins, program objectives must be developed. Program objectives are linked to the needs assessment. Let’s look at how objectives can be developed within the context of the five-level ROI...