Don’t Forsake Your Own Learning
Vocational education and training professionals must respect their title and be responsible for their own learning if they expect respect from others. While this seems like common sense, many of our colleagues (particularly in the RTO environment) fail to challenge...
Professional Development is Performance Management or Employee Development?
If you ask an employee on what a performance management is, he or she will mention that it is nothing but the annual appraisal of his or her performance followed by salary revisions. Trainers in particular also tend to view...
The Huge Disconnect
What is the job of a manager? This is not an easy question, and there are a number of possible answers. The talent management approach suggests that the job of the manager is to hire, develop, engage, and retain talented people....
Training and Social Media
Handy Tips for Training a New Employee on Social Media Practices Congratulations, it’s time to hire a new person to the team! This is always an exciting time as it signifies that you’re headed in the right direction. You’re doing...
Corporate Training: What do You get for Your Money?
In today’s highly competitive business environments, it is vital that companies have well-trained staff. Any business, regardless of its size is only as strong as its weakest link. It is, therefore important that all members of staff have similar levels...
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...
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...
Purpose and Goals of PD
Traditionally, many Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) have taken a one-size-fits-all approach to addressing organisational compliance and performance problems: Professional Development Training (PD). The problem with indiscriminately applying this approach is that training is the right answer only when the problem...
The Future of Learning and Performance
by Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D. and Patti Phillips, Ph.D. We have seen training evolve from a necessary expense to acquire critical job skills, to an investment in the organization through employee capability, growth, and development. Based on what we know...