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Does Your Training Content Reflect DEI Values?

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Reflecting your company’s DEI values in training content is an important step toward realizing the long-term benefits of a successful DEI initiative. To understand that importance, you must know the answers to a few questions. What is DEI? Why is the reflection of DEI values in training content important? How can you know if your training content reflects your company’s DEI values?

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Excavation Fatalities on the Rise

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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 organization to take action. On June 28, 2022, two workers, aged 20 and 39, suffered fatal injuries in Jarrell, Texas, when the unprotected trench of more than 20 feet deep collapsed on them as they worked.

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How to Improve Employee Mental Health After COVID

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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 exposed and demand to be addressed. It would be more realistic to question what challenges don’t exist after the pandemic.

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Post-COVID Remote Workforce: New Stresses and Challenges

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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, much less afloat. Granted, we have seen many benefits in the post-COVID remote workforce and new ways of getting work done.

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Set Your Employees Up for Success with Purposeful Training

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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 would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.” ?

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Microlearning’s Bite-Sized Training Modules Get Results

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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 wouldn’t go down. Rewind and try again, this time taking smaller bites. If you can swallow what you’re eating, digestion goes smoother, your hunger is satisfied, and overall, it is a much more enjoyable experience.

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Designing Instruction for Adult Learners

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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 you could meet all the requirements for graduation, but you may not have realized that what you were studying could actually have value in your future.

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