Using strategic human resource planning as a leadership tool – Chances and possibilities for leaders and organisations

Using strategic human resource planning as a leadership tool – Chances and possibilities for leaders and organisations

Starting from June 2016, Mag. Anita Berger – HR expert with long-time experience both within organisations and as a trainer and coach – offers the new workshop “The leader as a former”. To summarize, the workshop is about using strategic human resource planning as a leadership tool for long-term success as a team. In a short interview she reveals which topics she’ll treat in detail and how leaders and organisations can benefit from this approach. (more…)

Mountain affair – Evaluating training needs and planning reasonably

Mountain affair – Evaluating training needs and planning reasonably

At the beginning of any measure there is always a certain pain point – Department X isn’t efficient. Our team has problems with personal customer support. – and soon you hear “We need a training!”. Therefore training suppliers get instructed, topics get approved and dates get confirmed. Hardly anyone is asking: Is it really the training we need? What do we de facto need to reach our goals? A possible answer with our mountain impulse.

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L&D for a better world. – The initiative of L&D professionals.

L&D for a better world. – The initiative of L&D professionals.

Education and knowledge are the most powerful tools which we have available. They provide us the opportunity to speak for ourselves, to live a self-determined life and to be less susceptible for propaganda and power games of would-be leaders. This is why we want to enable access to education for as many people as possible. Especially people in disadvantaged and crisis-influenced regions.

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Kirkpatrick certification – What is it good for?

Kirkpatrick certification – What is it good for?

Kirkpatrick? Do we know! Training-evaluation? Do we do. Useful training-design? Of course, what else!? And measurable results? This question asked, answers become more and more quiet. Elsewise after the two-day Kirkpatrick workshop as a foundation for the bronze certification. We asked the participants of trainers, HR managers and consultants: What did you get out of the certification for yourself?

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Leaving the comfort zone – More courage for more training results

Leaving the comfort zone – More courage for more training results

Nobody likes to give insights into fields, where problems exist. And due to a mutual comfort zone everybody tends to avoid questions about it. We’re talking about trainers and organisations designing development programs together. For real trainings results as well as positive and direct contribution to business-goals it takes courage – on both sides. We talked with Masha Ibeschitz, coach and training expert, about this delicate topic.

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Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of training evaluation – Results beyond happy sheets

Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of training evaluation – Results beyond happy sheets

Think about a training executed for your employees which took a lot of time and money and which was successful, at least when it comes to the subjective feeling. Satisfied participants, nice ratings for trainer and program, everything is fine. Not long afterwards the training is in the spotlight again and with it the unavoidable questions: What was the real outcome of the training? Where and what are the direct results? What was the use for the company? The Kirkpatrick methodology based on 4 levels of evaluation does not only prepare HR and development managers to answer these questions. First and foremost it is a methodology to increase training results significantly. In the following you find an overview.

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Be ready for the change – HR expert Remko Verheul about his experience with a learning transfer platform and the future of L&D

Be ready for the change – HR expert Remko Verheul about his experience with a learning transfer platform and the future of L&D

These days, the Learning & Development industry is undergoing a considerable change. Digital tools and online offers are on the rise and HR departments face new challenges as well as new possibilities when it comes to employee and leadership development. One of these new possibilities is Promote, a learning transfer platform offering the chance to sustainably manage learning transfer and development programs which go far beyond a single training-shot.
We asked Remko Verheul – Global Head of HR at Travix International and previous Program Director of the Swarovski Academy – about his experience with the new platform and his forecast for the L&D industry.
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After all, they learn! Promote as the fountain of youth for the learning and development culture

After all, they learn! Promote as the fountain of youth for the learning and development culture

Maybe you ask yourself if a simple blog entry about a learning transfer platform is able to keep the promise given in the headline. And if you think of me as a sales consultant for this very learning transfer platform you might expect mere sales and marketing packed in some nice words explaining the benefits you as a company might gain from Promote. Well, you will read a little bit of that. But first and foremost I’d like to explain why I love my new role as a sales consultant for the platform and which renovations I see by using the learning transfer platform.
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