Excavation Fatalities on the Rise
Due to the increase in excavation deaths in 2022 – a reported 22 deaths in the first six months compared to 15 in all of 2021 – OSHA is cracking down on trench safety protocols. OSHA reported an incident in central Texas that motivated the…
How to Improve Employee Mental Health After COVID
What challenges do companies face regarding employee mental health after the pandemic? The upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced changes in most areas of our lives and how we carry out our day-to-day business. Mental health issues in our post-covid workforce have been…
Three Areas of Stresses and Challenges for the Post-COVID Remote Worker
Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past two years, it should be no surprise the COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to make adjustments to ensure continued success. “Pivot” has become an overused buzzword and an increasingly critical approach for businesses to stay profitable,…
Set Your Employees Up for Success with Purposeful Training
How can we create a culture in which our employees value training? “People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it…
Microlearning’s Bite-Sized Training Modules Get Results
Steak! When it’s grilled to perfection, it looks and smells wonderful! But have you ever taken too big of a bite and found yourself chewing and chewing. You literally bit off more than you could chew, and no matter what you did, the food simply…
Designing Instruction for Adult Learners
Do you remember what learning was like when you were in high school and college? Teachers would give you assignments and then point you in the right direction. In general, you believed what your instructors told you, without question. You tackled each subject so that…
12 Instructional Design Basics You Should Know
Instructional designers are superheroes when it comes to merging learning principles with graphic design. To achieve your superhero status, make sure that you know how to apply these 12 instructional design basics.
Signs That Your Employee Training Program Needs Improvement
“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” This famous quote by Zig Ziglar, legendary author, salesman, and motivational speaker, speaks volumes when it comes to employee training and development. What goals and expectations do you have in place for your training…
Increase Revenue with the Right Employee Training
Businesses can depend on properly trained employees to deliver high-quality performance and create increased revenue. With that being said, prioritizing professional development training strategies with an enterprising perspective will result in positive trends in your long-term profit margin. Whether you go with on-the-job, instructor-led, online…
How Learning Changes as We Age
There are obvious advantages to being young — health, energy, stamina, flexibility, and being able to process and take action quickly are just a few. While some companies are bent on hiring younger adults, there are obvious advantages of hiring older employees. Wisdom, life experience,…
Writing Better Questions to Assess Learning
Are you a public school teacher or a college professor? Are you a safety instructor in an industrial setting? Or are you an instructional designer who writes eLearning courses for various types of businesses? Whatever the case, if you convey information to others, how can…
How Coronavirus Has Changed Training
The coronavirus pandemic has demanded a change in almost every area of our human existence. Changes in workplace learning are among those demands, and businesses must consider them if they expect to maintain pre-pandemic momentum. Flexibility and creativity in employee development are of utmost priority…
