Businesses Look to Wellness Programs to Improve Productivity and Lower Absenteeism

ASTD Staff

New York (PRWEB) -- Improving productivity by keeping employees healthy and working is emerging as the top business objective for employer-sponsored wellness programs around the world. The two exceptions are the United States, where reducing health care cost increases o... More »

Respect For Employee Role Is Key To Engagement

ASTD Staff

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) -- Senior management respect for worker contribution has been found to be the top leadership factor promoting engagement, according to a global survey of 28,000 employees in 15 countries by Right Management. Other senior leadership behaviors tha... More »

Leaders as Teachers: Over 50 Ways to Contribute

ASTD Staff

There are well over 50 ways that can be organized in five categories, in which leaders can serve as teachers. Each is important and contributes to the business as a whole and the success and value of the learning function. Identifying learning needs and learning solutio... More »

Leaders as Teachers: Six Strategic Benefits

ASTD Staff

Organizations that effectively utilize a leaders as teachers approach can realize six key strategic benefits. Helps drive business results The first reason to implement a leaders-as-teachers approach is that it drives business and organizational results by ensuring stra... More »

New Deloitte Research Finds Increasing CEO Involvement in Talent Management

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The fast growing talent gap is prompting even CEOs to add leadership development and recruitment to their busy daily schedules, according to a new report by Deloitte and Forbes. The Threading the Talent Needle report, which features several different takes on talent man... More »