Reports of shortening attention spans may be overstated, but workplace learning still faces new challenges when it comes to engaging employees, says an expert in the field.
A deep understanding of how employees learn should be at the centre of people management as digitalisation drives the need for agile skills development, according to a performance expert.
Awareness is growing that leaders need to work on all aspects of their life, not just the professional, to be more successful at work, but "we still have a long way to go", says an acclaimed leadership expert.
Linking a leadership development program to real-time workplace challenges helps keep engagement high while delivering more benefits to the business, according to a workplace trainer.
The Fair Work Commission will redetermine whether a worker was unfairly dismissed after his employer successfully argued the original hearing denied it procedural fairness. Also in this article, calls for more skills investment in the Federal Budget; mind performance training becoming mainstream amid increasing work pressures; and more.
Despite being the top company graduates want to work for, PwC expects to provide extensive on-the-job training to new hires and therefore prioritises learning ability far above academic achievements, its head of talent says.
Applying a marketing lens to learning experiences will become crucial to meeting future workplace skills needs, and to overcoming the limitations of current L&D approaches, performance experts predict.
Current leadership development programs are failing because they prepare leaders to adapt to the changing work environment, but not to help shape it themselves, a new report shows.
As employees increasingly demand "instant impact" from workplace activities, and skills become the new currency of the digital age, microlearning is being recognised as a powerful tool to boost employee engagement and the bottom line, a specialist says.
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