Companies today recognize the importance of proper training, and they look to skilled trainers to lead the team to success. But without the right skills, trainers can fail. Don’t let this happen to your organization. Here are some essential facilitation...
Effective leaders are essential in an organization. The leadership team needs to have the skills to manage their employees while keeping the business on track to meet its goals and objectives. Benefits of great leadership are immense: they include increased...
When the only way to survive is to work together, teamwork is essential. Of course, we’re not suggesting you plop your employees on a deserted island to build teamwork. Instead, games and simulations can do wonders to help you build...
Results, behavior, learning, reaction. These are the four levels through which to design training programs and measure their effectiveness, according to Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation Model. This model provides a framework for both designing and evaluating training, depending...
Learning how to work as a team can be difficult. Not only is teamwork challenging, but the actual act of learning can be hard. Information is easily ignored and training can be ineffective. Typical training sessions may drag on too...
You don’t have to work in a “creative” industry to employ creativity in your organization. In fact, all companies can benefit from a culture of creativity. Providing a space that encourages employees to innovate, think outside the box and bring...
Sure, every workplace is different. But when it comes to workers, well, we’re all human. That means many times employees share the same general areas for improvement across industries, companies, and teams. If you can identify, anticipate, and mitigate these...
We often hear the term “IQ” when talking about intelligence. IQ, or intelligence quotient, is how we measure and quantify our mental abilities to think critically, logically, and objectively. But what about the personality aspects that affect everything from how...
By Kevin Coray, Ph.D. (Extraordinary Teams Inventory Co-Author) Life is too short to spend on ordinary teams. HRDQ's team-based inventory, the Extraordinary Teams Inventory (ETI), can help you move your organization beyond high-performance to the rarified level of extraordinary. The ETI comes at team development...
