Working online is a far cry from working in an office setting, with colleagues and co-workers always available nearby to support you, if needed. The good news, however, is that these challenges aren’t insurmountable. Training Your Employees To Work Remotely It may come as a surprise to many virtual team leaders, but it’s possible for your star employees in the “real world” to suffer huge efficiency and productivity losses in the online work world! That’s because they’re not used to working remotely and also because working online has a unique set of distractions, which they don’t readily know how to recognize and workaround. In this article, we’ll explore the top 7 ways to maximize the efficiency and productivity of the remote workforce. 1. Step-By-Step remote training walkthrough To make this training successful, it’s important to provide employees a comprehensive walkthrough of what they should expect from the training. Launching training initiatives “cold” could … [Read more...] about 7 Ways To Maximize Efficiency And Productivity Of Remote Work
Performance Improvement
The Onboarding Process: How To Help New Hires Adapt To A New Environment
Onboarding, the process of taking new hires, and integrating them into the company, can be one of the most important processes within a company. It can help form invaluable first impressions in the minds of new staff, and it can also ensure that new hires have a long and fulfilling career with the company. Unfortunately, statistics show that nearly 22% of employees quit within the initial 45 days of being hired [1]. Unless well planned, onboarding can lead to new hires exiting an organization quicker than HR can find replacements! Onboarding: A Multi-Layered Process In an organization with, say, less than fifty or sixty employees, and a single work location, a new employee can typically be onboarded in a matter of hours. Usually, the hiring manager will introduce the new hire to his/her new supervisor, and the onboarding process commences from there. However, where there are multiple locations, several cross-functional teams, and a hierarchy of management layers, onboarding can take … [Read more...] about The Onboarding Process: How To Help New Hires Adapt To A New Environment
Assessing Return On Investment Of eLearning
One of the biggest challenges that eLearning professionals experience is demonstrating the return on investment (ROI) of their training programs. In order to attract project sponsors and to justify resources invested in the development of eLearning, projects need to prove that they deliver real benefit to an organization. This article discusses considerations that need to be factored in when calculating eLearning ROI. Tips For Assessing Return On Investment Of eLearning eLearning has revolutionized how individuals (personally as well as in corporate settings) learn. There are a number of reasons why businesses and individuals gravitate towards eLearning programs, including: Flexibility Cost-effectiveness Standardization Repeatability Convenience ...just to name a few. However, as with any business venture, eLearning projects need to show that they deliver real benefit to an organization. If they can't demonstrate such value, then they are likely to not attract champions … [Read more...] about Assessing Return On Investment Of eLearning
Learning Curve: How Employers Can Change Steep To Genial Learning Experiences
There’s plenty of evidence, both anecdotal and empirical, that if you try to teach someone new things when they are anxious, the result is often counterproductive. So, what can employers do to help transform a steep learning experience into a more genial and smooth learning curve? How Can The Learning Curve Help Employers Change Learning Experiences? When new processes, procedures or tools are introduced in the workplace, it’s natural for employees to feel overwhelmed. The steep initial learning curve associated with embracing such change is often what gives workers cause for stress. What Is The Learning Curve? At it’s most basic level when used to measure accomplishments or lack thereof, a curve is associated with a gradual incline, uphill or steep, or decline, down-hill or “less steep”, in reported results. The learning curve is typically used as a measure that determines how difficult or easy it is for educators to impart knowledge, and for employees to learn new skills or acquire … [Read more...] about Learning Curve: How Employers Can Change Steep To Genial Learning Experiences
How to Train Your Remote Employees: Top tips, secrets, and best practices for effective remote workforce training
In the last few months, businesses and organizations around the world have been struck by an unexpected challenge: How to train their workforce to work remotely (while still being productive). Organizations around the world have implemented work-from-home policies as a key measure to reduce COVID-19 spread. However, most corporations weren’t fully prepared to leverage flexible work as a strategic approach. Leadership continuously asked the same questions again and again: How do we maintain communication with employees? What technology and other resources does the team need to work remotely? How can employees stay productive? How can employees stay engaged and motivated? SO, WHY TRAIN PEOPLE TO WORK ONLINE? According to a survey from Buffer, a company that develops and supports clients through tools for the web and mobile apps to help manage accounts in social networks, 99% of those surveyed indicated a strong preference for working online. To put that data point into … [Read more...] about How to Train Your Remote Employees: Top tips, secrets, and best practices for effective remote workforce training
Succession Planning: Keys To Successful Outcomes
Succession planning is a systematic effort by an organization or agency to ensure leadership continuity in critical positions. It is a proactive practice that helps to identify and develop leaders for key positions. In this article, we will briefly cover the succession planning process as well as some of the options for succession planning. We will also discuss transparency and the pros and cons of being transparent about your succession plan. Keys To Successful Succession Planning Britain’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) defines succession planning very succinctly as: “…the process of identifying and developing potential future leaders or senior managers, as well as individuals to fill other business-critical positions, either in the short- or the long-term.” It does not matter, therefore, which line of business you are in –government, education, health care, not-for-profit charity–, you need to plan for succession; because if you do not, … [Read more...] about Succession Planning: Keys To Successful Outcomes
