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How companies can Improve their Talent Development and employee retention

Matrix

The best business leaders know that their employees are their most valuable resource. As such, a vital part of your ongoing management and human resources (HR) strategy needs to be focused on effective talent development. Your investment needs to include dedicating time and resources to mentorship schemes. Mentorship.

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The Top 3 ingredients for motivating employees in tough times

Matrix

Employees feel motivated when they can see the results of their work and have the resources to grow both personally and professionally. Effective leaders empower employees by allowing them the freedom to make choices. Read more: The role of leaders in building trust within the organization. Competence.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

What I wrote more about in 2010 than past years: Text-to-Speech (8) OCW (3) SharePoint (8) eLearning Strategy (16) eLearning Tools (34) Corporate eLearning (18) Knowledge Worker (8) Authoring Tools (8) Voice (15) Knowledge Work (4) Captivate (11) Adobe Captivate (6) Enterprise 2.0 (6) Top eLearning Sites?

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

But when you couple it with other tools , analyses and planning activities , your inventory becomes invaluable for effective decision-making for your business strategy, especially when your skills database is consistently updated over time. In a vacuum, a skills inventory is just that: A catalogue of skills present in your organisation.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

But when you couple it with other tools , analyses and planning activities , your inventory becomes invaluable for effective decision-making for your business strategy, especially when your skills database is consistently updated over time. In a vacuum, a skills inventory is just that: A catalogue of skills present in your organisation.

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LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers

Tony Karrer

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. And I consider knowing how to effectively use LinkedIn to be a core Work Literacy. I wanted to collect together some of the resources I've found that can help you get more out of LinkedIn.

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What to Expect from Learning and Development in 2017

CLO Magazine

Human resources will look closer to home for new talent. The disruption higher education is experiencing will have a cascading effect that corporate learning will have to adjust to. Unfortunately, because knowledge work is difficult to measure and reward fairly, “gurus will continue to propose variations on an old theme.”.

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