At a recent meeting, the director of training operations at a global biopharmaceutical company was asked a fairly simple and straightforward question: "What keeps you awake at night?" After thinking about it for a moment, she said, "Well, my group is developing more tha... More »

Learning & Development

Business Impact , Intermediate-level Content , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General

Today's methods of conducting business impede employee productivity. Many organizations operate with incredibly high expectations for creating quality deliverables in an unreasonably short period of time. Employees are expected, or even required, to work long hours with... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Workforce Development

Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Training and Development - General

Thirty years ago, a high-potential manager in a training class at General Electric's corporate university listened as my father, Ned Herrmann, then head of GE's management education, discussed research he was developing on how the brain affects day-to-day operations. St... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Training and Development - General , Trends