There are three kinds of employees. Saints are always accountable. Sinners arent. Most employees are save-ables. Sometimes save-ables make good choices; sometimes they dont. Theyll consistently perform and do the right things, but only under certain conditions. To creat... More »

Career Development , Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Business Impact , Coaching and Mentoring , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning , Integrated Talent Management , Leadership Development , Management Development

In the late 1990s, I helped start a management consulting firm called The Table Group. which provides a variety of services to a wide range of clients in just about every respectable industry imaginable. From the beginning we adopted a simple informal approach to servin... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Career Development , Coaching and Mentoring , Training and Development - General

This discussion reviews elements of the study for "Time to Develop One Hour of Training," as well as the most common question asked based on the information shared in August 2009: Why are the numbers so high? Since the article Time to Develop One Hour of Training was pu... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Advanced Level Content , Assessment , Business Impact , Change Management , Curriculum Alignment , Designing Learning , Managing the Learning Function

Here are four ways to make role plays in virtual worlds more effective than role plays in the real world. As training professionals are forced to move education from the front of the classroom to online, they have discovered many challenges. How do you keep participants... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Informal Learning , Simulations and Serious Games , Social Learning , Trends

National social services agencies are dealing with the implications of the changes in federal and state Welfare to Work (WTW) program regulations brought about through the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act (DRA). The policies put in place by the new regulations have created an... More »

Career Development , Government , Human Capital

Assessment , Career Development , Career Planning , Economy , Jobs , Measuring and Evaluating