Calling All Trainers: We Are Learners Too!
Consider me your accountability coach. I’m here to challenge your thinking . . . specifically, to challenge you to give yourself the same energy you give to your learners.
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5 Tips for Training the Untrainable
Your materials are prepped. You’ve practiced the content inside and out. You’re ready to deliver a best-in-class training program. No matter how prepared we may feel, our profession is guaranteed to present us with the unexpected. So how do we pivot when faced with learners who don’t see value in the program, who don’t buy in to this timely investment? How do we train the untrainable?
What Makes Training Great?
It isn’t easy to create effective learning events. If it were easy, there would be little need for instructional designers—everyone would build their own learning events.
The APTD: Why I Did It, and What I Got Out of It
I did not go to school for talent development—I was thrust into the role of trainer, and I liked it. It turns out this was the same path as some people who built learning and development at some major companies, so much so that there is a term for it—we’re called “accidental trainers”.
Ten Disruptions We Can Expect in HR Technology For 2018
What HR technology can we expect to see (if we haven’t already) in 2018? And what disruptions can we expect them to introduce across management lines? Keep reading to learn more about the future of HR, and what we can expect from tomorrow.
Want to Hire People Who are Emotionally Intelligent? Do These 5 Things
Don’t let your next hiring decision be one that you’ll regret. The strategies that follow will help ensure you make a great hire.
Bad Leaders, Good Lessons
By Hessa Al Ghurair I believe you can learn from good leadership as often as you can learn from bad ones. Many attribute cookie-cutter traits to good leadership such as: dominance, social boldness, self-assurance, or tough-mindedness. However, extroverted executives are not always the best leaders…
Top 3 Success Factors of an ROI-based L&D Framework
By The HR Observer for ATD Middle East Conference & Exhibition We caught up with Patti Phillips, President & CEO of ROI Institute to get her thoughts on how organisations and L&D leaders should approach ROI in learning. 1. Be clear on the why. Why these…
How Will Machine and AI Learning Shape the Future of L&D in the Middle East?
By The HR Observer and ATD What do the experts feel about the future of work in light of automation, AI and machine learning? We caught up with a few of our speakers earlier in May this year at ATD Middle East Conference & Exhibition to…
What VUCA Means for L&D
By The HR Observer Yuvakumar Ramchander, Vice-President-Learning & Development at Mashreqbank, shares his thoughts on the changing nature of L&D in the region while we caught up with him at the HR Summit & Expo in Dubai in November 2017.