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Business Recovery How To: Make Remote Work Sustainable
As many organizations around the globe have announced that employees will work from home for the remainder of 2020, or in some cases indefinitely, leaders are increasingly considering the question: is 100% remote work truly sustainable? It can be a mixed bag when you consider the opportunities and challenges that come from a virtual workforce.…
إقرأ المزيدEight Steps to Inspire an Agile Approach to Workforce Planning
“Workforce planning” may feel like a bit of an oxymoron in 2020 as work has been turned on its head and sticking to any sort of plan has become increasingly difficult. For organizations that want to do more than react to current challenges, it’s essential to have a strategy to: Identify how you need and…
إقرأ المزيدNine Ways Managers Can Enhance Employee Engagement for On-Site & Virtual Teams [Free Guide]
Employee engagement has understandably had its ups and downs this year. Still, the actual numbers may surprise you. In May, Gallup found a record-high 38% of workers were engaged in the workplace, and in June, the figure dropped to 31%, which is one of the most significant decreases the organization has seen since it began…
إقرأ المزيدA Business Recovery How To: Reskill and Upskill Your Employees
If reskilling and upskilling were not part of your Learning & Development (L&D) strategy for 2020, I’d invite you to consider these areas of focus now as your organization prioritizes its recovery. At the start of the year LinkedIn’s 2020 Workplace Learning Report identified that 51% of L&D professionals were planning to launch upskilling programs…
إقرأ المزيدEmbrace a Constant State of Change through Learning & Development Programs
After the incredible amount of transformation we have seen in the first half of 2020, you would think we would all be pros at navigating change by now. And yet, transitions can still be challenging – even those individuals in the third-third of Flexibility! There are a number of obstacles that can impact our adaptability…
إقرأ المزيدHow to Build Skill in Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EQ) has been an important part of successful businesses well before Daniel Goleman described its five components and even before Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer coined the phrase 30 years ago. According to the Levo Institute, 80% of employees consider EQ crucial to develop their careers, and 87% of millennials report that…
إقرأ المزيدSix Ways Miscommunication Costs Your Company
We’ve all experienced miscommunication in the workplace. With remote work, it seems that the possibilities for misunderstanding only increase as we decrease face-to-face communications and rely more on email, chat or other technologies to facilitate discussion. And for hybrid teams where some employees are in the office and others work from home, it can feel…
إقرأ المزيدHow Learning & Development Teams Can Support Businesses on the Road to Recovery
Learning & Development (L&D) programs have been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. McKinsey recently reported that nearly 50% of in-person programming had been postponed or canceled through June in the United States, while parts of Asia and Europe are seeing figures closer to 100%. While delaying or canceling in-person learning experiences certainly makes…
إقرأ المزيدNine Tips to Strengthen Trust with Remote Teams
“Extending trust is the ultimate act of leadership, the defining skill that transforms a manager into a leader.” – Stephen M. R. Covey As many businesses explore new ways of working with remote or distributed teams, managers are being called upon to lead differently. Without a direct line of sight into their employees’ work, it’s…
إقرأ المزيدSupport Remote Workers with Virtual Learning & Development Opportunities
Beyond the personal changes that facilitators, trainers and Learning & Development (L&D) teams may be facing as they shift to remote working themselves, they are also experiencing great change in the way they deliver their programming. Earlier this year, LinkedIn’s 2020 Workplace Learning Report stated that a little more than half of L&D professionals expected…
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