Category: Development & Evaluation

October 27, 2020

Today’s workforce, especially the younger generations, values growth and development. In fact, the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Skills Gap 2019 report indicates that “over 50% of respondents feel that skills shortages have worsened or greatly worsened in their […]

October 27, 2020

Organizations that learn well also perform well … do you agree? We both do; if you are learning more skillfully than your competitors, performance and engagement will be differentiated. In this way, corporate learning should be a serious undertaking. We […]

October 23, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing major changes around where and how employees do their work, employers are altering their benefits to meet emerging needs and to ensure engagement with a scattered workforce. Sending employees lunch for regularly scheduled video team […]

October 23, 2020

With everything that’s broken in the world right now, HR and talent acquisition (TA) professionals must focus on creating experiences that can deliver speed, convenience, and help, says Tracey Parsons, President of Parsons Strategic Consulting, in a recent HR Now […]

October 22, 2020

The year 2020 has certainly come with its share of new challenges. Now, with the upcoming presidential election, heightened tensions around the country, new remote work environments, videoconferences offering a window into employees’ personal lives, face masks with political slogans, […]

October 20, 2020

It almost goes without saying that recognizing and empowering your employees is important. The biggest holidays of the year are approaching, requiring extra hours and effort from staff to maximize your business revenue. As we saw during the second quarter […]

October 16, 2020

Critical thinking can be defined, in part, as “the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and […]

October 15, 2020

President Trump released an Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping on September 22, 2020, giving federal employees instructions on diversity training. This controversial move left people confused, with many people claiming that President Trump canceled diversity and inclusion […]

October 14, 2020

Do underperforming employees deserve a second chance in the workplace? It’s a good question with no clear answer. Many managers have tried to rehabilitate a problematic staffers. Some have succeeded, while others have let the employee go. Managers who have […]

October 14, 2020

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, American companies furloughed workers at an unprecedented rate. Initially, these furloughed employees believed their layoff was just temporary, but now, many of these job losses have become permanent. In fact, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s […]