Why businesses should seriously consider offering financial education to their staff
Helping employees to understand and manage their finances makes good business sense. So why aren’t more organisations doing it? Just how far should businesses go in offering financial education to their staff? The question is increasingly being asked in the wake of the clear evidence about the poor level of financial capability among adults in the UK. […]
Encouraging Learning And Curiosity In Your Office
Running your business is one thing, but you need to always be primed for growth. This all begins with the culture you create in your workplace. Above all, intellectual curiosity and sharpening skills need to be primary focuses in your business. When continuously learning and growing is a theme that trickles down, you’ll continuously mold […]
What is the Best Way to Prepare ADM-201 Exam?
It’s not an easy test. And it’s getting harder.It all depends on how you learn best, but, you will discover during taking the test that a lot of the questions are purposefully worded to be very confusing… you really can’t study enough for it. Online Practice Exam is the best way to prepare for ADM-201 Certification Exam because […]
A Quick Introduction To Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere develops robotic process automation software to augment and scale knowledge work at the world’s largest companies. Automation Anywhere Enterprise caters to enterprises looking to deploy a digital workforce composed of software bots that complete business processes end-to-end. Automation Anywhere Enterprise combines traditional RPA with cognitive elements such as natural language processing and reading unstructured data. […]
Starbucks and Unconscoius Bias
Starbucks is closing its 8,000 US stores today so that its staff can receive training around racial bias. It’s a reaction to an apparent example of racial bias, when, in April, two black men were arrested in a Starbucks store in Philadelphia, for simply sitting there. In reality, the two men had arrived early for […]
How to Encourage Your Team to Achieve Goals
The success of a team mostly relies on the attitude of the leader. The team members tend to copy the attitude of a leader. It is therefore important that leaders should show a good example that will encourage the team to pursue the set goals of the organization. One of the challenges the leaders encounter […]
How to educate your team about product knowledge
It is important that your team has a good knowledge of your products and the value your customers will get by after purchasing these products. It is easier to encourage customers to become loyal to your brand when they perceive that your organization has a good knowledge of the changing markets and how to modify […]
We Need to Get Real with Business Students
Two of my business students were debating the purpose of business. One said the purpose of business was to make money and the other said: “We don’t always know the purpose of a business”. While it’s true that some businesses have a social aspect or give a percentage of every sale to a certain cause, […]
Steps To Run Customer Service Training For Staff
Good customer service simply means that your company has put in place the necessary infrastructure and team to meet the needs of your customers. The easiest way to get correctly implement proper customer service training is by first understanding the needs of your customers and deriving methods to meet and exceed these expectations. Matching your […]
Face-to-Face Learning vs. E-learning: The Debate
E-learning is certainly “having its day.” It seems as if everyone, from primary school students through corporate employees, are receiving this learning delivery format, from computer-assisted and enrichment activities for school-aged learners to more formal training among work forces. Still, there are those who still state that nothing can really replace the physical presence of […]
Cultural Resilience Is Not a Barrier to Elearning
Cultures influence the beliefs, attitudes, values, behavior of individuals. If you have heard of the term ‘culture shock,’ then you will also know that many immigrants, students, new employees, learners face this when they go to new countries, new schools, new workplaces respectively. Our capacity as individuals to learn and to be able to adapt […]
Way the World Teaches With Artificial Intelligence
From past few decades, our educational system has been slowly adapting itself to the new age of technology. With every day something new is innovating, everyone needs to accept the new change and learn about it. The biggest change that a mankind is right now facing is the new age of technology i.e. Artificial Intelligence […]
Employee rights
I have a question about if it is legal about something I’m going through with my boss. I signed a contract saying I have to pay my boss back for schooling if I quit within a year – which I did. My boss paid for around 30% of the schooling, a grant from the government paid the […]
Why online training is the future for startups
We’re all familiar with some kind of online learning, whether it’s a remote degree, a virtual math tutor, a MOOC, or an employee training course. However, some businesses have been slow to catch onto the online employee training revolution, opting for traditional classroom learning instead. Big mistake. While established businesses might be able to get […]
Four ways to create a thriving graduate culture in the workplace
Today’s graduate schemes play a fundamental role in many organisations, with employers increasing the number of graduate positions in their companies by nearly five percent in 2017 alone. Of course, from a business perspective, this makes total sense. Fresh blood and younger generations offer creative ideas and unique insights, and are destined to become your […]
How HR can help close the gender savings gap
Despite the 1970 Equal Pay Act and 2010 Equality Act, women in 2018 still earn about 10% less per hour than men. Policy is changing, driven by years of activism, enlightenment and regulatory changes, including the April 2018 mandate on gender pay gap reporting, but progress is slow. The pay gap is the red flag […]
Guidelines For Grooming Your Future Leaders
It’s rare that a quality leader emerges without being groomed by someone who has been in that position. The true way to build a company is to give back by pinpointing leaders and taking them under your wing. Plenty of companies have talented, but you need to do everything you can to hone that talent […]
Ulrich Boser: The 10 commandments of ‘learning to learn’
TrainingZone reports on the key takeaways from bestselling author and educational journalist Ulrich Boser’s opening address on day two of Learning Technologies 2018, which took place in London in February 2018. In day two’s keynote, Ulrich Boser explored how people really learn, arguing that ‘a lot of the conventional wisdom on learning is wrong’. Both in […]
4 Tips To Capitalize When You’re A Free Agent
When you’re a free agent, it can be a situation filled with as much stress as invigoration. This is a time of uncertainty, which can be frightening — but it’s also rife with opportunity. If you’d like to make sure you’re capitalizing on this opportunity, rather that succumbing to the pressure of having to find […]
3 Tips To Chart Your Continuing Education Path
When it comes to leadership and managerial roles, continuing education is the name of the game. This is something that 70% of professionals in leadership roles recognize since it gives them an edge and allows them to be good stewards of their companies. If you’re trying to sharpen your leadership skills and impart great value […]
