New Zealand: Workplace Learning Contributes to Improved Performance

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(From voxy.co.nz) -- An independent evaluative report released this week into the Learning Representative Programme shows that workplace learning supported by Learning Representatives (Learning Reps) led to improved individual worker and workplace performance. E... More »

ASTD Archive Image of the Day: We've Come a Long Way! Circa 1957

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This photo appeared in the September-October 1957 issue of the Journal of the American Society of Training Directors. Even 54 years ago, ASTD had a strong international presence. Visitors from other countries would turn to ASTD to learn about best practices in wo... More »

UAE consortium formed for INSEAD Executive Leadership Programme

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(From AMEinfo.com) -- Translating the UAE's leadership vision of establishing the country to be the centre of leadership excellence in the region, Du, Dubai Holding, DUBAL and First Gulf Bank have formed a UAE-based consortium of principal companies in the country, ... More »

Australian Companies Worry They Don't Have the Right People in the Right Jobs to Drive Growth

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(From marketwire) -- Most Australian businesses are limiting their own growth by having the wrong people in key roles, according to new research by Taleo Corporation, the global leader of SaaS-based Talent Management solutions. In a survey of more than 100 HR de... More »

Innovation at the workplace

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(From TheStar.com) Telecommuting is an old idea which still has not gained traction because the need for human contact, sometimes intimately, is simply too strong to be severed. WHEN we talk about innovation to improve our daily lives, many of the technologies, tech... More »