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Time to Get In The Game
| There’s a lot more fun in our future if the Entertainment Software Association is correct. Their study says that
So is training finally going to be fun? Maybe. One of the top uses for this type of training is for compliance training. Compliance training? That subject can really suck the fun out of any game.
Whatever training is onscreen, when the user gets to role-play, interact and make decisions like those that are made in real life, it’s then you have effective training. Gaming technology can provide this engaging capability - finally. Add to that the ability to capture completion data, and you have a package that large and medium-sized companies cannot ignore. Check out these reasons respondents said are the biggest advantages:
Are you still forcing workers to suffer through boring training? Your options are better than ever. |
Posted on: July 28, 2008 10:33 PM
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The Shocking Reason More Women Are Not in Top Leadership
| It’s pretty much agreed that a company should have more women in senior management. Disagreement appears when people start to look at strategies to get more women in those positions. Quotas, aggressive culture change, and so on have strong supporters and ardent critics.
Perhaps the results of a study by Catalyst can simplify matters for us. According to Ilene Lang, president of the non-profit, one finding was that “frms with 30 percent of women board directors in 2001 on average had 45 percent more women corporate officers by 2006, compared with ones with no female board members.”
It’s that simple. Bypass all the other strategic struggles and increase women’s representation on boards. You will then get better representation in top leadership jobs.
But turn this fact around. Doesn’t it mean that the main reason women are not in top leadership jobs now is that male decision makers are the barrier? Shocking! |
Posted on: July 25, 2008 08:01 AM
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Your Company May Use This Common Coaching Strategy, Unfortunately
| Does it make sense to you to focus special attention on one workforce group to improve performance of the entire workforce? It doesn’t to me. It might even be demotivating to those who do not get the special attention. They might even feel discriminated against. Yet according to a new study by the America Management Association and the Institute for Corporate Productivity, most companies surveyed use coaching to help out high-potential employees and executives.
But what about those employees who need extra help to achieve expected or improved performance? Fewer companies surveyed used coaching for this. That just doesn’t make sense in the big picture. There should be a more balanced approach. Otherwise, workforce performance improvement overall does not change appropriately, instead becoming skewed toward groups that get special attention. This could even lead to conflict. You certainly want to balance the use of coaching in your project. |
Posted on: July 23, 2008 09:47 PM
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Reality of the Mommy Track
| There is a widespread belief that women will likely leave the “career track” for the “mommy track” during their childbearing years. This belief has been blamed for, among other things, women not being chosen for management/leadership positions and not being paid as much as men.
But is it true? It was not clear until just recently. An American Sociological Review study now tells us the percentage of professional women born since 1956 that have left the workforce for a year or more during their prime childbearing years. But what would you guess?
Remember, this percentage is for leaving anytime during their entire childbearing years. What’s your final answer? It’s not 38%. That’s the percentage of mothers (born from 1966 to 1975) with young children working full time. Contrast that with only 6% for the generation of women born from 1926 to 1935. Many more mothers are working full time now.
The real percent of professional women born since 1956 that have left the workforce for a year or more during their prime childbearing years is 8%. Not enough to warrant the disparate treatment seen in some organizations. |
Posted on: July 16, 2008 10:25 PM
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Increased Unemployment Rate Does Not Help You
| What’s in the news?
So will you finally enjoy a choice of high-quality candidates to fill your IT positions? Not likely.
The big picture is that most layoffs are of workers with skills that are not on the hot list. Your organization will still experience the same problems filling technical positions, because of something you probably have not heard in the news: The management and technical consulting sector added 5,300 jobs in May. Keep up the recruiting efforts and improve them whenever possible! |
Posted on: July 15, 2008 11:09 PM
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