Trying to Bridge the Skills Gap? An Integrated Approach to Talent Management...
By Jay Larson, VP of Field Operations At a time when unemployment still hovers near its highest point in a generation, the idea of a shortage of skilled labor seems impossible. However, it does exist,...
View ArticleLearning Trends: New Ways of Developing Your People
By Mark Brandau, Senior Director, Product Marketing In an attempt to create a more active learning culture, many organizations manhandle the learning process for employees, telling them when, where,...
View ArticleWhat’s Up with Room Set Up? Flight: San Francisco to Frankfurt
By Jenny Dearborn, Chief Leaning Officer You’ve rented hotel space for your learning event. You’ve put together the most expensive program imaginable – busy executives flown in from all over, pricey...
View ArticleOnline Learner Feedback to Courses
By Jenny Dearborn, Chief Learning Officer Flight: New York to San Francisco In our LMS, learners have the ability to rate and post comments about all the courses they complete. This rating shows up as...
View ArticleThe Secret to a Successful Mentoring Program
Part A: The Sad Tale of the Unsupported Sales Rep You are a new sales rep at a fast-growing business software company. You attend new hire orientation, which tells you a lot about the company and not...
View ArticleThe Secret to a Successful Mentoring Program
Part B: A Cheap, Easy Fix with Great Results In Part A of this two-part blog post, The Sad Tale of the Unsupported Sales Rep, I described how tough it used to be for new reps at our company (a scenario...
View ArticleBe One Get One! A Mentor of Course!
By Jenny Dearborn, Chief Learning Officer It’s Mentor Time! Sometimes what a Mentor can do and what a Mentee needs are not aligned. Sometimes a Mentee needs more than periodic support, which is why...
View ArticleTop 5 Ways Mobile Learning Can Improve Business Results
By Mark Brandau, Senior Director, Product Marketing at SuccessFactors (This blog was originally posted on the SAP Community Network) Want to know what makes me nuts? Driving behind (or in front of)...
View ArticleRedefining Workplace Learning for the 21st Century
Here’s a blog post I just published on the SAP Business Trends column of the SAP Community Network: Disruptive technologies and shifting demographics are redefining the workforce. In response, smart...
View ArticleWhere Customer Empathy Meets Authenticity: Success Academy’s Cloud Learning...
By Jordan Hodgson, Senior Marketing Analyst, Customer Success Innovations at SuccessFactors (Originally posted on the SAP Community Network). As a member of SuccessFactors Customer Success Innovations...
View ArticleTo Train, and How to Train: That is the Question
By Edward Cohen, VP of Product Management at SuccessFactors (Originally posted on the SAP Community Network) When it comes to new technologies or fads in the training world, I usually step back and...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why You Need Social Learning Today
By Dr. Karie Willyerd, Vice President, Learning & Social Adoption, SuccessFactors, an SAP Company If people have been learning for eons, why is there any need to consider a shift in how we offer...
View ArticleWhy Corporate Learning Must Turn Employees into Lifetime Students and Teachers
By Emily Wilson, Director of Solutions Marketing Learning (Originally posted on SAP Community Network) Businesses that are unable to adapt to change struggle to survive. Don’t believe me? A few...
View ArticleMind the (Talent) Gap: How Learning Can Help You Win the War for Talent
By Mike Ettling, President of the HR Line of Business at SAP. (Originally posted on SAP Community Network) The global workforce is in crisis. There are more people exiting the workforce than entering...
View ArticleHow Learning Can Help You Win The War For Talent
By Mike Ettling, President, HR, Line of Business, SAP (Originally posted on Forbes.com) The global workforce is in crisis. There are more people exiting the workforce than entering it, and as the older...
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