Author Archives: Jay Forte
Three Ways Company Trainers Can Help Hire Top Talent
Corporate trainers and educators are profit drivers now — and in more ways than one. Although their primary impact on a company is by training employees to master high-impact skills that help improve business performance, they can also add value (and profit) in other ways, too. Company educators have an unique knowledge … Read more
Three Reasons Training Is Now a Profit Driver
The word on the street is that we’re in a skills shortage. Companies’ bottom lines are negatively impacted by employees who don’t have the increasingly complex skills needed to consistently perform their work and positively influence customer loyalty. It’s not a supply problem, people say, it’s a skills problem. It … Read more
For Maximum ROI, Focus on Training Top Employees
In his book First Break All the Rules, employee-engagement specialist Marcus Buckingham shares this alarming statistic: As many as 65 percent of employees are disengaged, and do just enough work to not get fired. Nearly two thirds of employees are merely “good enough.” “Good enough” shouldn’t be good enough. This … Read more
3 Ways Training Managers Can Focus on Results
As educators, we’re intimately familiar with the time and effort required to prepare and present any kind of training program, whether it’s in a classroom or online, self-directed or a collaboration. Under-preparing for a program is a recipe for disaster, but sometimes even when we put the effort in to … Read more
Five Ways to Spice Up Employee Training Programs
Most employee training and education programs focus on just a few required, core topics: basic skills, computer systems, and keeping current on industry regulations or changes. That’s fine. Fundamentals are important. But that’s such a small part of what a great training program can be. Learning doesn’t only have to … Read more
