The Importance of The Employee Experience

With a skilled labor shortage and a 3.9 percent U.S. unemployment rate, it’s no secret that today’s talent landscape continues to…

Deepening Relationships with Leaders Through Investments in Succession

The book The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner discusses how “leadership is a relationship.” When you have a…

Three Reasons a Referral Program is the Best Recruitment Tool

When hiring new talent, most organizations want to do so as quickly and effectively as possible, and one of the best…

Closing the Talent Gap with Talent Management

Talent management – is it just another buzz word? While the Human Resources function has been around for decades, talent management…

Four Reasons Core Values Matter

If you work in an organization, chances are you are familiar with the term “core value” – a timeless guiding principle…

Leadership Competencies. Why Talk About Them?

How do you define the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to be an effective leader within your organization? How do you…

Four Ways the Hiring Manager Plays a Key Role in Onboarding

While Human Resources (HR) plays an active part in the talent acquisition and initial orientation phase of new employees, the hiring…

Faith Technologies’ Annual High-Potential Event

September 10-12 marked the dates of Faith Technologies’ annual High-Potential Event at Camp Onaway in Waupaca, WI. This annual event serves…

Not Your Average Daily Grind

Does the word internship conjure up images of serving coffee, filing endless paperwork, and running mindless errands? It doesn’t have to…

Four Reasons to Invest in a High Potential Program

Most of you would likely agree that developing top talent is critical to a company’s survival. A high-potential program does just…

Three Ways to Create Learning Experiences Your Employees Love

Do your employees groan and roll their eyes at the mere mention of training? Well, it doesn’t have to be that…

The Speed of Trust

I recently had the opportunity to read The Speed of Trust by Steven M.R. Covey. In his book, Covey clearly builds…

Three Strategies for Improving Learning Retention

Learning retention is a key to improving the business impact of training. In today’s economic climate, with companies being forced to…

NPG Week: An Investment in Employee Development

In response to our traveling employees’ schedules and training needs, Faith Technologies held its third annual National Projects Group (NPG) Training…

The No Complaining Rule

I recently had the opportunity to read The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work by Jon…

Driving Engagement & Performance: Gamification & Learning

When I was growing up, I loved to play games. My favorite was Ms. Pac Man. I would spend hours in…

Three Reasons to Invest in Employee Development

As a learning professional, I’m a firm believer in employee development. After all, I have spent my entire career supporting and…

Just-in-Time Learning

In today’s fast-paced environment, learning departments are under pressure to deliver learning quickly and efficiently with as little disruption to the…

Why Use Moodle as a Learning Management System?

If you are involved in education or training, you’ve probably heard about the rising trend of using Moodle for online learning….

Tailoring Education to Adults: Five Principles to Consider

If you’ve had any involvement with adult education, you are probably familiar with the principles of adult learning. Here are my…

The Leadership Challenge is Everyone’s Business

I recently had the opportunity to read The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. Today there are many books…

Top Three Trends in Learning Technology

As a professional responsible for workplace learning, I’m excited about the top three trends I’m seeing emerge in learning technology today….

Generational Training

Today’s workforce is comprised of four generations. How do we keep such a generationally diverse group of learners motivated in today’s…