There is a lot of discussion around using goals as employee’s appraisal score in place of competencies or in some cases in addition to those scores. It’s about time! Goals should be the standard that employees are measured on. This allows the appraisal to be objective versus subjective. You either met the goal or you […]
Who Owns Employee Engagement?
Who owns employee engagement? Learning and development? Organizational Development? HR? Individual Managers? The answer is…. wait for it…. The employee! All departments and functions can support engagement, but we can’t force a person to be engaged. Regardless of what we do, we can only encourage them by providing tools and resources such as offering a culture […]
Is the LMS Dead?
A while ago, I attended a webinar entitled ‘Is the LMS Dead.’ The sponsor was NetDimensions who is a enterprise LMS provider. The four panelist were Charles Jennings, Craig Weiss, David Wilson and Richard Nantel. All industry leaders to be sure. The title of the topic really caught my attention as well as the quality […]
Time for an Annual Review
I’m talking about an annual review of your systems, tools and software. It may be time to take a step back and revisit the functionality and processes around the systems and tools in your department. It’s so common to implement a tool or system, design the processes to support them and then move on to […]
Innovation in Learning & Development
Can we talk about innovation in L&D? When someone says innovation we immediately think of a new system, software or technology. Innovation can be defined by a new idea, method or process. We talk about the newest social media platform or the latest and greatest LMS. Typically we are taken with all the newest functionality.