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How to Help Managers Avoid Burnout and Stay Productive

Everwise

One program tested the effect of weekly meetings with facilitators for six months to hash out communication difficulties. These under-challenged workers tend to manage stress by distancing themselves from work, a strategy that leads to depersonalization and cynicism — a harbinger for burning out and packing up shop.”.

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LearnX Asia Pacific 2009 - Day 2

E-Learning Provocateur

Margaret offers them the following tips: always be mindful of the remote worker/learner; train them to chunk their days into productive periods free from interruption; avoid information overload; and build social capital through social networking. Margaret also recommends the resources at Telework Australia and Knowledge Ability.

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Boosting Skills: New Employee Training

Appsembler

Walking the Tightrope of Information : In the digital age, information is abundant, but wisdom is scarce. On one end, there’s the quagmire of information overload, where employees drown in data but thirst for clarity. Measuring ROI helps companies understand the effectiveness of their training programs.