According to Forbes, businesses around the world spend over $3,300 per hire on recruiting, an increase of almost 6% in the last year. US corporations spend nearly $72 billion annually on recruiting services, staff, and products – and the worldwide number is likely three times bigger. Corporate training spend is close behind. According to Bersin by …
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.– Voltaire At a recent conference, Andrew Blum from Trium Consulting made a passing comment in a presentation about leaders having faith in themselves. It was an interesting word that got me thinking. There are countless articles and books that discuss leadership and …
Tammy Duckworth I had the pleasure of seeing Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth speak at our company today. For those who do not know this remarkable woman, Ms. Duckworth is the US Representative for Illinois’ 8th congressional district and is the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress in Illinois, the first disabled woman to be elected to …
Sign trip. Group ticket and passport, holidays abroad Over one-third, or nearly 110 million, Americans now hold passports. That’s 15 times the number that held passports in 1989. We’re on the move! A big reason for that jump is that passports are now required to travel to Canada and Mexico, but I suspect that the globalized economy …
I’m off to a conference to present a case study on how we built just in time change capabilities at our company. Is there a topic that’s more on fire right now? I hope I have something intelligent to say on the issue! I am looking forward to learning more about what my colleagues in …
The dominance of classroom training in corporate learning is one of the most hotly discussed topics in L&D departments around the country, perhaps the world. Except we don’t talk about classrooms but the inverse corollary: social learning. Peer networks. eLearning. Mentoring. Informal learning. We discuss these issues for a number of reasons, including: Capital resources …
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. That quote comes courtesy of the decidedly unsentimental Winston Churchill. Based on what I hear from colleagues in other companies and across industries, mentoring is a program that universally excites people. Perhaps it is because unlike many other …
Download full size (1289 KB) Another client group had heard of the training program that Jeff’s team had run a few months earlier. Believing he had learned his lesson, he was not about to enter into negotiations for delivering a program without ensuring he understood the potential impact and how the result would be measured. …
ROI. Is there a more dreaded ratio in training and development? ROI stands for return on investment, though notably it is also the french word for “king” which seems appropriate given the prominence this ratio has received in our industry. Even though many learning leaders I’ve spoken to believe that this is a near impossible …
Three months after agreeing to run product training across the business, Jeff is sitting in a meeting with senior business leaders. The pilot was not received well, partly because half of the participants didn’t know the reason they were in training was because their role was changing. One of the sponsors was “defending” Jeff by …
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