Monthly Archives: September 2019

What Are Your Alumni Saying About You?

Retaining employees

You can pretty much assume that no employee will stay with you throughout their entire professional life. Even if they do, they’re going to retire someday. Just expect that everyone leaves, whether after 30 years or 30 days. So what will they say about you when you leave? Your best brand ambassadors for your product, […]

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Future Needs

Employees in class

When it comes to developing employees, we have a tendency to look at what’s needed today and then focus our development efforts on that. That s useful, but it’s only half of what’s needed. Employee development needs to consider what’s likely to help people achieve success in the future. When you were 8 years old […]

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Teambuilding, or Just Having Fun?

Calling customers to stay in touch

A recent article in Human Resources Online offered some views on the role of teambuilding in employee development.  The regional head of L&D for global jewelry brand Pandora, who sits in Hong Kong, discussed the company’s concept of teambuilding events. They tend to avoid having specific events labeled as “teambuilding” and instead try to add things that can […]

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Looking for Learners

There are very few companies out there who don’t need learners. Let’s face it – as much as things change in your industry or within your organization, people need to be open to learning new things regularly. Whether it’s a new technology that affects your products, or simply a new internal process designed to improve […]

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