Learning & Talent Development
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The Future of Work Compendium
Why technology, innovation, and automation continue to drive the future of work and why securing the right talent is more important than managing headcount and costs
A 2020 Report: Work Well-Being
This report focuses on what experts refer to as “subjective well-being,” which is synonymous with positive emotions and happiness
THE IMPORTANCE OF INCENTIVES
WHAT, WHY, AND HOW INCENTIVES WORK AT ENTERPRISE ORGANIZATIONS In this white paper, we’ll explain what incentives compensation is, examples of how it works, its benefits, some potential pitfalls in such a program, and some tips for implementing and improving an incentives compensation plan at your organization.
5 TIPS TO EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Ensure your performance management practices are as effective as possible with these 5 steps
Turn Feedback into Action
3 simple steps to facilitating great employee conversations that increase engagement
Employee Lifecycle Feedback
Find out how you can understand the key actions to take at every stage of the lifecycle, from formalized stages like recruitment, training, onboarding and exit as well as more personalized moments, such as when employees return from parental leave.
RECRUITING FOR THE FUTURE: HOW TO FIND AND HIRE EMERGING TECH TALENT
Can the Talent Market Keep Up with Emerging Technology? Hiring Emerging Tech Talent: 5 Strategies That Work. Top Insights for Recruiting Success …
Improving quality management in manufacturing
The current challenges that manufacturers face around quality practices, and how the intersection of IoT, cognitive computing and quality management can drive new levels of business value
HR Checklist for Growing Companies
Whether you have one employee or hundreds, here's what to prioritize with each stage of growth.
The Talent Shift: The Convergence of Skills Evolution, Digitization, and Flexibility
The “new” world of work revolves around the concept of new talent acquisition models, enterprises being innovation-ready (as opposed to innovationadverse), and, an overarching corporate willingness to keep pace with a shifting and dynamic market
The Chemistry of Employee Engagement
Learn How to Drive Employee Engagement Using Real-Time People Data
7 Habits That Are Stalling Your Employee Engagement Program (And How to Fix Them)
Learn how to transform old habits into the effective, future-ready programs that drive today’s high-performing organizations.
The leadership guide to empathy in the workplace.
3 tips on how can leadership demonstrate empathy in the workplace?
The Hiring Manager Collaboration Playbook
A four-step process to help you set up strong relationships for continued talent success.
Why Your HR Transformation isn’t Over
Change the way HR makes strategic decisions, with deeper insights provided by people analytics. Analytics
The 5 Steps Managers Should Be Taking After Employee 1 Performance Reviews
5 steps you can take after employee performance reviews to ensure an engaged, motivated, and more productive workforce
Why Content Means More than Compliance
A learning content subscription is your ticket for building a culture of learning. Here's what you need to know...
Scaling Recruiting for Hypergrowth Companies
A guide on building a recruiting plan and an infrastructure that are both pliable enough to grow seamlessly with your organization.
BRIDGING THE TECHNICAL SKILLS GAP
How IT teams can keep up with growing talent needs as technology and big data mature
2018 Developer Report - Insights for Attracting, Recruiting, and Retaining Software Developers
Report provides recommendations for 2019 hiring and retention strategies informed by findings from survey of 2,000+ tech workers
2020 Cornerstone Performance Management Survey
A review of the current practices surrounding performance management in small & medium businesses and the obstacles to implementing continuous performance management and talent technology solutions.
Preparing for a Pandemic: How to Ensure Productivity and Security When Employees Must Work From Home
As organizations consider having employees work from home on a more massive scale, it’s important to recognize that doing so also introduces certain risks to the business that must be mitigated. This article covers three remote workforce-related risks: employee productivity, digital security, and compliance.
People Work > Paper Work
Subtract the tedium, add meaningful work: Your guide to adding value back to performance management, learning, and your day-to-day work life.
How to Build a Benefits Package That Attracts Next-Gen Talent
Learn how to attract and retain the next generation of employees by offering the right benefits.
Preparing your business for rapid transformation
Download the whitepaper to learn how to remain relevant in the changing face of work.
A Practical Guide to Running Better Technical Interviews
Download the free ebook Running Better Technical Interviews to learn how to win over top software developers.
Developing apps in containers: 5 topics to discuss with your team
Here are five topics to bring to your app dev team to gauge how moving to containers and containerized application services and middleware can help increase productivity and deliver solutions to the business faster.
Driving digital destiny Digital Reinvention in automotive
Automotive firms need to rethink their organizations from the ground up. As the birthplace of traditional production chains, the automotive industry is transitioning from a vehicle-centric view to a state of deep, sustained customer centricity. It is doing this through a process we call Digital Reinvention
Work Without Limits 2019 Executive Trends Report
Learn how business leaders from some of the world's largest companies are successfully adapting to workforce change to stay ahead.
SKILLS + FLOW: THE NEW STANDARD FOR DEVELOPING AND SCALING TECH TEAMS
How do you succeed in this new role? Your technology strategy needs to be tied to a technology skill development strategy that empowers teams with the right skills to solve your most-pressing business challenges. It’s the only way to power new business models and innovate. That's why it's more important than ever to invest in and champion your teams. As a leader, it’s your job to provide them with the collaboration tools, coaching and skills they need to succeed.
REPORT: THE STATE OF UPSKILLING
In this report, dive deeper into the state of technology skill development to see where employee needs can better align with organisational strategies and how to maximize the impact of aligning tech skill development to your company’s initiatives.
Technology Skill Development: The strategy for building better teams
This guide is designed to show you how leading companies use Technology Skill Development (TSD) to efficiently build a bigger talent pool of engaged and skilled technologists that drive faster innovation—and how you can apply the same strategy and practices in your organization.
Compensation Dictionary
This is your crash course in the compensation language. Find all the terms you need to master any compensation conversation. You’ll be ‘comp’letely fluent in no time.
Buy or build: What’s right for your training program?
This white paper explores how both the nature of learning content and the context in which we use it have changed. The result is that when deciding whether to create content in-house, or whether to out-source it, is now more complex than ever. The white paper guides the reader through the key considerations in making this choice, providing clarity around the issues, and concludes that while content must still be created in-house sometimes, that is an approach that should only be followed after every other option has been exhausted.
What SMBs need to know about purpose in the workplace
Purpose can take on different forms depending on who you speak to. Researchers from PwC asked both employees and leaders what they felt were the top three reasons for having purpose in the workplace.
The Transformed Workplace
The Covid19 pandemic has changed workplaces, contact centers forever, while altering 2020-21 budgets, priorities. This report examines companies’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic and how they will change their workplaces moving forward.
Five Reasons to Consider a PEP as Part of Your Benefits Strategy
Five Reasons to Consider a PEP as Part of Your Benefits Strategy · 1. Improve retirement outcomes for employees · 2. Less risk for employers and …
Diversity in the Digital Workplace
It’s time to bring diversity to the digital workplace and enable workers and their digital counterparts to work in harmony.
EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
The importance of employee performance, who is responsible for performance management, how employee performance can be tied to compensation and the different ways to measure and manage performance.
SIX PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO BRIDGE THE CYBERSECURITY TALENT SHORTAGE
Read this paper to learn six practical approaches that can help you combine technological and human intervention to bridge the multi-million-person cybersecurity talent shortage.
Choosing the right elearning courses for your L&D program
This eBook will help you save time so you can prioritize course curation, address the challenges L&D professionals like you face when evaluating new courses, and how to strategize for future success.
Best-in-Class Performance Management in 2021
Learn how you can optimize your performance management program and keep your people and your business growing.
Talent Analytics for Dummies©
Get 48 pages of great advice, best practices and case studies—plus 10 Ways to Win With Talent Analytics
What Employees Want
Understand and explore the importance of employee engagemen and driving employee retention and satisfaction.
COACHING LEADERSHIP
Download your Guide to Coaching Leadership and learn what employees need to be fully engaged at work, key commitments and characteristics of a coaching leader, and more…
10 BEST PRACTICES FOR REMOTE AGENT SUCCESS THE 2021 EXPERTS GUIDE
Check out our 10 Best Practices for Remote Agent Success – The 2021 Experts Guide.
6 Essential Workforce Management Strategies for a Safe and Productive Return to Work_US
(US) 6 essential workforce management strategies that will help you design a safe and productive return-to-work plan
EMPLOYER INSIGHT SURVEY: Returning to the worksite
Returning to the worksite. Transition strategies and approaches. Current status of return-to-worksite transitions among large employers.
7 TELLTALE SIGNS YOUR LEADERSHIP PLAN NEEDS A REBOOT
This guide helps you identify signs that your leadership development plan could use some adjustments and outlines how to establish a sustainable leadership program within your organization. Find out if your leadership development plan could use a reboot.
COMPLIANCE GUIDE FOR FINANCE LEADERS
The Comprehensive Guide to Compliance through the Employee Lifecycle
Get On Board: Building High-Performing Agile Teams and Release Trains
Learn how the success of just a few Agile teams can transform an organization into one that pivots quickly, delivers value frequently, and propels the organization forward.
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HEALTH CHECK
In this guide is a list of questions to determine if your Learning Management System solution provider is innovating to meet your current and future needs.
A guide to building agile research functions in-house
There’s no right or wrong way to build a research team – but there are best practices you can follow to ensure your team makes the most sense for your organization, now and in the future.
PEAK PERFORMANCE
How leading organizations implement performance management and employee engagement today…
2020 Cornerstone Performance Management Survey
4 steps you need to take in order to help your company move forward and implement continuous peformance management (CPM).
The Hiring Manager Collaboration Playbook
A four-step process to help you set up strong relationships for continued talent success.
Preparing your business for rapid transformation
In this guidebook, you’ll learn how investing in transformation efforts can help your organization engage employees and meet your business goals. With six articles covering everything from automation to company culture, our featured pieces will help you understand the changing forces in the market—and what you can do to adapt.