Starting a training program is a valuable investment. It enhances employee skills, boosts morale, and improves retention, ultimately enhancing customer service quality.
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Accurate learning objectives help you focus your efforts to deliver the right learning content to the right audience. Without clear objectives, learning waste can become much more common, resulting in redundant learning and overly long seat times.
Historically, skills development has focused on white-collar jobs, but the front-line makes up 80% of the global workforce. This article will review how to use employee’s skills maps to close skills gaps and deliver training in the flow of work.
The persistently tight labor market and employee willingness to simply move on from jobs that do not pay well or aren’t viewed as fulfilling, are making talent acquisition and retention challenging. Upskilling and reskilling are the only way forward.
Unfortunately, what workers learn in higher education and on the job, especially in tech, is often a step behind to what they need in the real world. We need to design training to meet the evolving market demands of an increasingly global economy.
Cengage Work, the adult online skills training business of Cengage Group, is addressing the current skilled labor gap and opening up access to quality skills training with Ready to Hire.
Every employer must consider the critical skill sets their organization requires today and in the future. Evaluation and assessment tools provide a lens into an employee’s technical and qualitative skills, offering unique insights to learning leaders.
While skills gaps and labor shortages are common across nearly every industry, the problem has become particularly apparent in manufacturing, construction, shipping, transportation and energy.
It’s now imperative for learning and development (L&D) teams to create frequent and diverse learning opportunities for employees.