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Professional Development Predictions for 2022

In 2020 and 2021, Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams, and other collaboration platforms probably convinced you of the need for virtual reality in everyday interactions and professional development (PD) to help build your workforce. But what if you really could deploy virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) professional development to…

Why You Should Offer Professional Development to Your Customers

Do your customers reach out with frequently asked questions? While a FAQ section on your website can help answer these common issues, consider how a training module that addresses basic questions and more can affect your client churn level. If you give your clients the information they need to succeed,…

How to Build an Environment That Empowers New Managers

There’s a lot of content out there on empowering employees and getting the most out of teams — but where is the guidance on empowering managers? Some 60 percent of new managers fail or underperform in their first two years, while leadership training is typically invested in employees who are…

“More Training” Isn’t Always the Answer for Performance Problems

In a society that likes to super-size things and typically views bigger as better, we’re also fans of “more.” While we may now be more cautious about throwing money at a problem, businesses today are still likely to see performance issues and jump immediately to the idea of “more training.”…

Make the Most of Your Employees’ Soft Skills

Though I was always proficient in my science and math classes growing up, I’ve never really been much of a STEM guy. Honestly, I don’t remember hearing the acronym during my time in high school at the turn of the millennium. Common usage of the term might be newer than…

The Future of Professional Development

Regardless of where a company resides on the continuum of professional development for their employees, most agree that people (employees, customers, and others) are intrinsic to a company’s success. Today’s businesses know that investing in professional development for their employees is one avenue for reaching people important to their success.…

8 K12 Lessons to Improve Corporate Professional Development

When you're little, roles seem clear: There are teachers and then there are students. It’s fun to tell an elementary student that their favorite teachers are students, too, thanks to professional development requirements. Then spring it on them that many mothers and fathers are students as well and see what…

Virtual Professional Development Best Practices

If you’re a training manager for a large corporation or you’re leading a team of a few individuals in a small business, you likely pivoted in the last year about virtual professional development (PD) offerings. Today’s remote work environment means any training or PD must be online. And US workers…

How Corporations Can Take a Page From K12 Professional Development

Teachers have stringent requirements for professional development (PD), and corporations may benefit from adapting a K12-inspired development plan to support their employees' own professional growth. Consider how communities rely on the quality of their educational system to boost real estate valuations, which helps them attract more taxpayers to their districts.…

Making the Most of Micro-Moments When Everyone’s a Bit Rusty

It would be easy to say that we're at an especially strange point in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic -- but really, everything's been pretty strange for a long while now. Now, looking around the world, we see both success stories and fears of new waves and variants, vaccination rates…

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