As new employees join your team, providing them with a well-structured and comprehensive training plan is essential for their success and the long-term growth of your business. Crafting a thoughtful and effective training program not only accelerates the onboarding process but also sets the stage for new hires to excel in their roles. How can
Are job-hopping and career success related to each other? What is the effect of one on the other? How long is too long to stay at a company? I must admit, the resumes that pass by my desk make me conclude that job-hopping is far too common. Job-hoppers hop for various reasons. More often than
The organization invested in some expensive technology. Everyone was initially trained, but now it seems like certain groups aren’t leveraging the system as well as they could be. Do you have a comprehensive training program? Continual training is important because it provides employees with the knowledge needed to effectively use the systems. Proper training helps
As a teacher coach, I support the development of many types of educators—those trained in traditional university school programs and those who participated in alternative route pathways. I, myself, was an alternate route teaching candidate who took certification courses on nights/weekends in New Jersey. While I am now able to pay it forward by mentoring
As a young man, I experienced military training. Twenty years later, I started my career as an IT trainer and came across “EDIP,” a methodology used by the British Army for weapons training. “EDIP” is an acronym for “explain, demonstrate, imitate, and practice.” I reasoned that a machine gun is a piece of technology, and
Whether you are writing software code, developing a CAD drawing, modifying a product or its tooling, and even editing a document, each time a copy is released from the governing task a revision is introduced. Controlling these various versions of a unit is critical to engineering success. Why would something as simple as knowing a
As an educational consultant, I facilitate teacher professional development across the United States and, sometimes, internationally. While there might be consensus in the education field on the importance of using rigorous learning standards to guide instruction, exactly which standards should be used is a matter of heated debate. So, when I once accidentally mentioned in
