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Your boss has asked you to write an article for the company website about an important project your team just finished.  You are proud of the project and getting the word out will be exciting! You sit down to type. You look at the empty Word document.  And the blank…

Business writing is an important work activity, and effectively proofreading a document can be the difference between sloppy and superb.  Here are some hacks for doing it well: Find and Replace Slang. The term “hack,” for example, is great for a blog. Not so great for business correspondence. Check your…

Are you keeping up with the latest in eLearning? Check out some articles we found that can help you stay up-to-date. Gamification Trends in 2019 - Packed with Tips and Ideas You Can Use: https://elearningindustry.com/gamification-trends-2019-tips-ideas-packed Top 20 eLearning Statistics for 2019 You Need to Know: https://elearningindustry.com/top-elearning-statistics-2019 4 Strategies for Future-Proofing…

Allegations of harassment can raise strong feelings of anger, guilt, defensiveness and vulnerability. Amidst this emotion, the people handling the incident must consider what the burden of proof will be when assessing what to do when someone is accused of harassing someone else. That burden can vary, depending on a…

Workplace harassment is prohibited under several Federal Acts (or laws) — these laws prohibit discrimination based on sex, age, disability, religion, disability and many other factors. Beyond the buzzwords of legal documents, however, the threshold of harassment can be sometimes hard to establish. Here are some examples: Emily is known…

In today’s workplaces, more people have mobile devices and laptops — which offers new flexibilities, but also creates new pressures to be online 24/7. The traditional “9 to 5” workplace is quickly fading away. How can employees manage increased demands at home and at work? Effective work-life balance is often…

Work-Life Integration: Supporting the Future of Work Life Balance The only constant is change, and how we see work-life balance is no different.  Workplaces are evolving to focus more on knowledge work than factory work, and to focus more on real-time service to customers. Here are some future-focused tips and…

Here are some July stories we saw moving the corporate learning landscape. Are Companies About to Have a Gen X Retention Problem? - https://hbr.org/2019/07/are-companies-about-to-have-a-gen-x-retention-problem Amazon plans to upskill 100,000 employees to alleviate blurring lines between technical and non-technical jobs - https://www.fastcompany.com/90380050/amazon-upskilling-100000-employees-and-the-future-of-work How ready is your corporate training strategy for Gen-Next?…

Continuing education is an investment that benefits both organizations and employees; to sell its importance, employees need to communicate the value of that investment in a win-win way. Too often though, employees try to justify continuing education by describing its benefits to them individually —rather than by describing the benefits…