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Why Your Employees Need Training Recertification
How often do you recertify your employees for compliance topics? If a situation arose, are you confident they would know how to handle it? Recertification, even when state or federal law does not require it, is a good way to make sure your employees are always up to...
Why Your Employees Need Training Recertification
How often do you recertify your employees for compliance topics? If a situation arose, are you confident they would know how to handle it? Recertification, even when state or federal law does not require it, is a good way to make sure your employees are always up to...
Are Your Employees Prepared for an Active Shooter?
With the threat of active shooter incidents becoming a frightening reality, training employees to respond effectively is a necessity. Active shooter training such as the FBI’s “Run. Hide. Fight.” video equips employees with tools to mitigate fear, empowers them to...
Are Your Employees Prepared for an Active Shooter?
With the threat of active shooter incidents becoming a frightening reality, training employees to respond effectively is a necessity. Active shooter training such as the FBI’s “Run. Hide. Fight.” video equips employees with tools to mitigate fear, empowers them to...
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What Your Employees Don’t Know Can Hurt You
If knowledge is power, then the lack of knowledge is a weakness. This is especially true in risk assessment. As a business leader, part of your job is to assess the risks your organization faces and find ways to minimize them. The main types of risks you face are:...
Navigate Change With Scalable Training Solutions
Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, “The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.” No matter what business you’re in, your success as a leader often depends on your ability to lead your staff through uncertainty and change. A...
Rock Your First 90 Days as a Training Administrator
Taking charge of employee training for your entire organization is a big responsibility. It may seem a bit daunting at first, but it is not an impossible task. With a little preparation and planning – and a healthy dose of dedication and patience – you can become a...
Beyond Harassment: Preventing Retaliation in the Workplace
As a business owner, manager, or supervisor, you’ve probably already given a lot of thought to dealing with harassment in the workplace. But what about retaliation in the workplace? The same laws that protect employees from harassment and discrimination also protect...
What Should I Do With My Old Video Training?
We all remember the first day of our first job. The hiring manager or human resources manager would sit us down in an empty conference room or employee breakroom and wheel out the cart with the television, VCR, and a stack of video training tapes. Within minutes our...
How to Choose Online Learning
A learning management system, or LMS, in its simplest form is a platform to deliver training to end-users. It’s like an engine for online learning. At more advanced levels, an LMS is more of a command center that does much more than just deliver online training. It...
10 Basic Employee Training Principles
Employee training isn’t simply a nice-to-have element of human resources management—it’s a must-have. From training on your company’s vision and mission, to compliance training, to soft skills training such as time management, the knowledge of your staff is directly...
Does Your Training Program Promote Employee Success?
Your training program does more than just train employees. Sure, the point is to teach employees what they need to do their jobs, but the impact of training goes far deeper than that. After all, you don’t want employees to just do their jobs. You want them to excel....
The Importance of Building Engagement
Everyone has their own opinion on the key ingredient for a successful business, but at the end of the day, the one thing every company needs is employee engagement. Developing employee engagement isn’t always an easy task, but it’s necessary in order to build a...
Custom Learning Paths: An Investment in Retaining Your Employees
Hiring quality employees is sometimes easier said than done. And once you do find that gem of an employee, there’s no guarantee they will stay with your company for the duration of their career. Unless you are willing to invest in your employees and their futures,...
Do Your Employees Have the Right Skills? Upskilling and Reskilling in Today’s Workforce
Professional development is a constantly moving target. Employees may come to their jobs with education and past experience, but ultimately it’s the organization’s responsibility to make sure they are well-trained for the specific position for which they’ve been hired...
Beyond the LMS: Blended Learning 101
You’ve done your research, talked to all the experts, and finally invested in a learning management system that seems just right for your organization. Now you’re ready to implement the perfect training program to provide your current employees and new hires with the...
