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Five Tips for Building a Curriculum Strategy

Posted:January 10, 2018 | Tags:

The average “skills shelf life” is only about five years, according to LinkedIn’s 2017 Workplace Learning Report. Continuous learning and development is the new normal for today’s workforce. As a result, talent development leaders are finding new ways to create and maintain accurate and up-to-date learning resources for their organizations.

The right curriculum strategy is key for managing resources and time effectively. Scaling your curriculum strategy across your department, division, or...

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Solving the Right Problem

Finding the root cause of performance issues
Posted:January 25, 2018 | Tags:

Consider this scenario: until recently, your department was meeting most goals and metrics. Now it seems like every day there's a new red flag, quality violation, or lowered score. You've talked about the situation at every team huddle and your people appear to be doing their best. Your boss knows the effort you've made and wants to help you get back on track. There's one thing left to try, so the word goes out.

"We need another round of service training."

When experienced employees start...

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Kicking It Up a Notch

Build a learning structure that works
Posted:February 27, 2018 | Tags:

Is it possible to acquire game-changing career skills in less than five minutes? How about five minutes a day? Research gathered by the consulting firm Deloitte found that the average employee in the U.S. was able to devote just 1% of their work week to professional development. In an average workweek, that translates out to just 4.8 minutes per day, or 24 minutes per week.

Today’s workplace is lean, mean, and agile. Systems and processes are in a constant state of improvement, so learning...

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