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 »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Trends

Industry News , Research

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) -- Although economic recovery in the U.S. remains uncertain and is far from complete, Modern Survey's measurement of the U.S. workforce shows that employee engagement has risen steadily during the last twelve months. The level of employee engagem... More »

Human Capital

Advanced Level Content , Business Impact , Economy , Engagement , Jobs , Trends

Research

The latest rage in the learning community is webinars. The Adobe Connect, WebEx and LiveMeetings of the words are sweeping the learning industry and leaving a path of Death-by-PowerPoint destruction behind it.Most webinars wind up mimicking the worst of the 1000-year ol... More »

Learning Technologies

Business Impact , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Engagement , Global Workforce Development , Training and Development - General , Trends

In 2008, ASTD partnered with Dale Carnegie Training and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) to evaluate employee engagement. The study leaves little doubt that learning influences engagement to a significant extent. When survey respondents were asked about t... More »

Human Capital , Workforce Development

Business Impact , Engagement , Training and Development - General , Trends

Research