Many forces and mega-trends are re-shaping the way L&D and talent development creates and delivers business value. Economic instability, technological advancements like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and geopolitical changes have encouraged businesses to look beyond their traditional boundaries for opportunity and growth. Innovation…
By Stephen Gill How do you know your organization has a learning culture? What do you see people doing? How are people learning? While a learning culture is an environment that’s always in development, certain signs indicate that you are making progress. Leaders are communicating…
By Laura Francis In DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2018 report, researchers describe some of the top challenges CEOs say they face right now when developing leaders. At the top of their list is developing next-generation leaders, with 64 percent of CEOs reporting this as a concern, followed…
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.
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.
As the industry grows, so does the need to reward industry leaders, innovators and top employers in a variety of industry categories. In its 7th consecutive year, this awards ceremony has been revamped to reflect the progressive and innovative interpretation of the latest developments and…
Not all mentoring programs are successful. So what goes wrong? Here are five mistakes you want to avoid.
As a leader, the challenge is not only to spot talent but also to convince your people that you value their talents and that they should, too. This is how you start to build a team of employees who bring their superpowers to work.
Every organization wants to hire the best of the best, but research from Columbia Business School shows that teams with the most talent don’t always net the best results.
Professor Adam Galinsky, the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, examined a variety of team-based situations — including egg-production in a chicken coop as well as 10 seasons of professional basketball and baseball — and concluded that when a team is filled with top-notch talent, overall performance actually goes down.
Over the past few decades the world of work has undergone huge changes, and with the year 2020 approaching rapidly, the future of work, in particular the way workforce is sourced, organised and managed, is promising to look even more different. The increasing attractiveness of the emerging markets with regards to business growth has already contributed to a significant increase in the need for companies to move people and source talent from around the world. Scientific and technological advances are continuing to impact most, if not all, workplaces, but there is still more change to come.
