How You Can Evaluate the Impact of Soft Skills Training? When you think about an ideal employee, what thoughts come to mind? You might initially think about the technical skills needed to do their jobs. For example, you'd want an English teacher to have a strong understanding of grammar and sentence structure. But hard skills aren't the only important skills employees should have. Someone who has excellent soft skills would be adept at critical thinking, communication skills, and teamwork. Soft skills aren't as easy to identify as hard skills, which makes it more difficult to evaluate their worth. They're often thought of as "extras" and are put on the back burner. Believe it or not, soft skills training affects more than just your workplace culture. It can give you a competitive edge and contribute to your bottom line. This ebook will help you understand how these skills can make the difference between high- and low-performing organizations. In this ebook, you'll learn: What soft skills look like in real life situations How improving soft skills can impact your business What metrics to look at when measuring the impact of soft skills training How to calculate the ROI of soft skills training Download now!

  High-quality coaching requires not only effort and collaboration between sales managers, reps, and sales enablement professionals, but also agreement on coaching effectiveness and best practices. Without agreement, it’s hard to make improvements and drive increased sales success. To find out how these stakeholders feel about coaching effectiveness, we surveyed nearly 300 sales reps, managers, and sales enablement professionals, asking them fundamental questions about their perceptions and preferences. While we found alignment in some areas, reps, managers, and sales enablement leaders differed in their opinions about coaching quality, coaching needs, and even the impact of coaching on results. Left unchecked, differences between key stakeholders on coaching quality and value can pose a significant risk to revenue goals, and even threaten the relationship between reps and managers. Click below to download and learn what the data showed, what it means, and how you can use this information to improve coaching efforts at your organization.

This preview chapter will allow you a peek into this guide to the iterative organization, the only kind of organization that can learn and adapt fast enough to keep up in today's world. For anyone running a team of managers, or advising someone who does, it describes the fundamental behaviors that create iteration, explains how to implement them, and includes videos and online assessment to get the process started. Iterate defines what management really is and helps readers create a fast, flexible, focused management team that does it well. Ed Muzio, award-winning author, CEO, and "one of the planet's clearest thinkers on management practice," provides a research-based blueprint for a management team that will take the next best step for the organization in any situation. This book enables senior leadership, front line and middle management, and human resource executives to equip their teams with both knowledge and practical skills so that they not only understand their own purpose but also perform that purpose well amidst ever-changing conditions. Iterate will help readers create measurable business results on any management team, of any size, in any industry where complex work and frequent change are the norm. Click below to download this preview.

What Are the Obligations of Managers? In a world that is rapidly approaching eight billion people, rarely do organizations around the world face the exact same challenge at the exact same time. Yet, that is exactly what’s happening when it comes to people being engaged in their work. Here are some telling statistics from Gallup: In France, an abysmal 6% of all employees are actively engaged. In the UK, that number nearly doubles to 11%. Here in the U.S., we boast above-average employee engagement levels with 15% of employees reporting that they are actively engaged. That means 85% of US workers are disengaged or actively disengaged in their work. Click below to download this Whitepaper.  

It’s a busy time to be a futurist. The pace of change in the workplace continues to accelerate. Expectations of people leaders to effectively move their organizations and teams forward have seismically shifted. And that is likely only to continue. Shelley Robbins, PhD, senior faculty chair of masters programs in business at Capella University, recently discussed this topic as part of a panel at the BetterUp Shift conference, which delved into the science of talent development in a world where people enablement will be the way of the future. The following are Robbins’ takeaways from the panel on how people leaders can prepare for the future of work.

We asked, "What are the toughest conversations happening in your workplace?".  This free infographic will show you what your colleagues in L&D are experiencing and how they handle the issues.   ROI of training Leaders how to handle tough conversations? One method of training the leaders returned $4000 ROI for every $1000 invested.  Click to download the infographic and discover the most effective solution.

We’ve all heard of some big-time compliance failures at various companies; the fallout after a compliance oversight can be serious. But this ebook isn’t about dissecting everything that can go wrong or providing legal advice. Instead, we want to look at how such instances have spotlighted the importance of using compliance to build a positive company culture and focusing on the most important asset of your organization — your people.

Learning and Performance - The Missing Link Is Your Learning driving performance? The most important outcome of any learning program is improved performance, yet 60% of organizations admit that learning is not aligned to business goals.* So if your learning isn't moving the needle forward on performance, why bother? For too many organizations, the outcome of learning is...learning. And while metrics like course completion rates or course grades can tell you how learners are responding to your learning content, they don't give you any insights into how learning is actually impacting the business. Maximize Learning Impact by Making the Performance Connection In this eBook from Brandon Hall Group and Saba Software, based on the webinar The Learning and Performance Link: Making the Connection, you'll gain expert insights into how learning and performance intersect to drive business success. Filled with research and real-world examples, you'll learn how to create a hyper-connected learning experience that engages your employees, improves individual and business performance, and maximizes the impact of your L&D initiatives. You'll gain insights into: The Learning and Performance Convergence Model from Brandon Hall Group How to drive long-term business success by linking learning and performance What high-performing companies do differently when it comes to measuring learning effectiveness Download the eBook today to find out why - and how - your organization can restore the critical connection between learning and performance!  

Research from Bersin by Deloitte shows that at least 80% of all workplace learning is informal. Given that any employee with a smartphone or computer has access to a wealth of information on any topic or skill at their fingertips, that percentage will only continue to increase. So how ready is your organization to embrace the new anytime, anywhere learning experiences that your employees expect? TAKE THE INFORMAL LEARNING READINESS ASSESSMENT Download the Informal Learning Organizational Readiness Assessment to determine how conducive your organization's unique characteristics are to facilitating a culture of informal and on-demand learning. You'll gain insights into: How ready your organization is to support informal learning today, plus steps you can take to bridge the gaps Four traits that organizations with strong potential for informal learning success typically possess A step-by-step framework for implementing and driving adoption of an informal learning strategy Download the assessment to learn more about informal learning readiness and find out where your organization stands!  

UNLOCK THE FUTURE OF SMART ELEARNING DESIGN The 2019 release of Adobe Captivate empowers you to create all kinds of fully responsive eLearning content with a smart authoring tool. Embrace the future, as you effortlessly design modern immersive learning experiences using VR and 360° media assets. Record software simulations from scratch or add interactivity to existing PowerPoint slides and videos to create engaging eLearning that works across all devices.