How to Leverage the Addictive Nature of Video Gaming to Improve Training Effectiveness
What if you could offer professional development and employee training that made staff not just want to improve, but to crave knowledge and skills improvement? It’s more than possible. The Science. When dopamine pours down the neurological reward pathways of a person’s mesolimbic dopamine system, it does more than take their brain for a ride […]
Gender Diversity Training for Heavy Equipment Manufacturers and Distributors
We hear a lot about gender diversity on the news, in business blogs, in surveys—basically in every media outlet. And for good reason! It remains an important and timely topic. In our current atmosphere, discussions of gender pervade the public discourse, especially in regard to business. But what about manufacturing and distribution companies, specifically? We’re […]
7 Soft Skills Every Employee Needs to Learn
Soft skills: they sound like they’d be easier to learn than the more difficult to attain “hard skills.” After all, hard skills require concrete, measurable, and observable expertise in a given area. For example, programmers have to know programming languages to do their job. Likewise, heavy construction workers have to be able to operate machinery […]
5 Questions Every Manager Needs to Answer about Employee Roles and Responsibilities
Do your employees know their roles and responsibilities? Do you know your own? Every position in a company comes with a set of expectations and perceptions that must be understood for employees to do their job correctly and for the business to operate smoothly. When everyone knows what their job entails, things go better, to […]
6 Tips for Establishing a Healthy Workplace Culture
Workplace culture. What does that mean exactly? It seems like a vague or broad-sweeping term with an “all-of-the-above” aura. But a healthy workplace culture can positively affect your bottom line if you go about it mindfully and with a set purpose. Culture surfaces wherever groups of humans are, which means your workplace culture is there […]
6 Tips for Effective Leadership Development
Every business needs good leadership. Companies know that influential leaders who can guide employees efficiently will boost business and will help create and maintain a safe and welcoming workplace. What many companies often struggle with is the actual recruitment and development of their leaders. This struggle manifests in many different ways, but most of them […]
Bring Your New York Anti-Harassment Training Program into 2019
New York anti-harassment laws are among the most well-known in the United States. If you work for or manage a company in New York state, you are probably well acquainted with them. As of this year, however, state legislature introduced some big changes to the previous anti-harassment training standards. The 2019 New York Budget Law […]
Preparing for the New California Anti-Harassment Laws
If you work for or manage a business located in California, you’re more than likely familiar with the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), more commonly referred to as the California Anti-Harassment Law. As a mainstay of California compliance law, FEHA has been a defining feature of the workplace since 1959 when the law was […]
Is Your Corporate Compliance Program up to Snuff for Your State?
Ensuring that your business complies with your state rules and regulations can be tricky. There are laws, rules, regulations, and ethical practices that businesses are legally required to follow on the federal, state, county, and even city level. And it’s not just that, either. Change is a constant factor when it comes to compliance law. […]
5 Reasons You Need a Sales Enablement Training Program
Even the most skilled and experienced sales reps need to practice. After all, they didn’t reach the status of most skilled and experienced on talent alone, although that probably helped. On the contrary, they developed their skills over time in order to become masters of their craft. According to the Training Industry, “Less than 50 […]
