Category Archives: Career Development

Laying the Groundwork for a Team Foundation

Before you can build a cohesive team, individual team members must understand their own team values. Wehn values are not in alighment, individuals feel uncomfortable and conflicted. The more your values and behavior are in alignment, the less internal conflict you’ll feel. Continue reading

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Employee Training and Development

Employee resignations and turnover is also increased when people are denied opportunities for learning and development. Continue reading

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Enhancing Employee Satisfaction

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a practice that combines training, organizational development, and career development efforts to encourage improvement of individual, group, and organizational performance.  Its purpose is to enhance employee performance and productivity, which leads to employee and customer … Continue reading

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Organizational Change and Human Resource Development

The capabilities of the workforce directly impact the organization as they give the organization competitive edge. Due to internal and external changes, the organization must adapt to these changes to avoid revenue loss. To adapt to these changes, the HRD department conducts training with the goal of improving on the capabilities of the organization’s employees. This training is referred to as the HRD. The goal of HRD is to improve the skills and knowledge of the employees towards achieving the objectives of the organization.

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Employee Retention, Turnover Reduction

Employees can remain interested in their jobs and become more valuable to the organization by being presented with new challenges and opportunities for growth. One of the most important retention tools that an organization can have is good training.
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Hire for Attitude, Train for Skills

Organizations that provide training for job-specific skills can then focus on finding employees with positive attitudes who can then be trained to perform their jobs efficiently and accurately.

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Developing New Hires into Human Capital through On-The-Job-Training

All organizations need good employees – employees who know how to perform their jobs and perform them with a positive attitude. Good employees are developed by organizations that are willing to invest in enhancing their KSA through OJT. Continue reading

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Employee Training Needs Analysis

Employee training refers to the teaching of specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) an employee. It is any effort to improve current or future employee performance by enhancing an employee’s ability to perform through learning, usually by altering the employee’s attitude or increasing his or her skills and knowledge. The need for training is determined by an employee’s performance deficiency, or a performance gap.

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Pros and Cons of Organizational Communication

Today’s organizations are multifaceted communal structures which cannot effectively function without meaningful communication between its employees. Communication is the process by which all employees within an organization are connected. Communication within an organization flows mainly in three different directions – downward, upward and horizontal.

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Key Verbal and Nonverbal Active Listening Skills

Our personal filters, assumptions, judgments, and beliefs can distort what we hear. As a listener, your role is to understand what is being said. This may require you to reflect what is being said and ask questions.

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