Liz’s Leadership Insights Blog

Double Your Training Take Aways

I, of course, love leadership training. However, I find it even more valuable when there's an easy way to double your training take aways without additional cost. At the conclusion of a leadership training project with a client recently, one of the senior managers said, "In order to keep this learning going, I'm going to pull my notes once a quarter just to see what else I should be working on." I wasn't quite sure what he meant by his comment. When I asked for a clarification, he provided a...

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7 Training Tips from Laura Stack

  Laura Stack stopped by the blog today to share her "7 Tips for Training Small Business Employees without Blowing the Budget". 7 Tips for Training Small Business Employees without Blowing the Budget Employee training is an important aspect of business growth. However, with today’s major focus on cost cutting, training is often one of the first things to go when budgets are tight. However, because motivation or skill level can be impacted, which in turn affects engagement or productivity,...

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Attract, Train, & Retain Employees

Attract, Train, & Retain Employees

With so many companies struggling to attract and retain staff who can perform well, why do so many companies do such a lousy job in training their new staff? Why do they think training is an expense and not an investment? Why do they skimp on something so critical? From my experience, the most common reason is that most companies still default to on-boarding and training new staff the way they were trained when they first started their careers: The new employees are trained on the job by the...

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Helping Ourselves by Developing Others

This past month has been an amazing time. We have facilitated planning sessions and have provided management training programs to several clients on topics ranging from Strategic Planning to Enhancing Communications. Each group, without exception, voiced their concern over their organization's current inadequate training for new staff to those in management positions. Each group, of their own accord, acknowledged inadequate knowledge sharing from "veteran" employees to less-experienced staff....

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Train Your Shrinking Labor Pool

Train Your Shrinking Labor Pool

According to the US Labor Department “by 2008 the growth of the U.S. Workforce is projected to drop to near zero and remain at that level for the next 25 years. This is the consequence of a vast exodus of 79 million U.S. baby boomers who will retire from the workforce between 2010 and 2015. Hiring new employees will become more problematic as wages increase for the fewer people with the right skills."* Pretty sobering isn't it? However, for anyone paying attention to the news for the past...

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