Training

  • Linked – Employees missing out on AI training and development

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Good employees want to learn new things and utilize technology to be more efficient, and that’s what we want from our employees. AI is all over the media right now. It’s the hot topic if every tech conference and a ton of legal tech webinars. According to this survey, they appear to be out there doing it on their own with little direction from their employer. That might become a problem, but it shouldn’t be a surprise. User have been finding creative ways to find the tools they need to get work done instead of waiting for the IT team and training to tell them they can. AI is just one more to add to that list, and one more that the talent development folks are going to have to play catch up on, quickly.

  • Are you Working Harder to Make Up For a Vacation?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    If you work somewhere that this is an issue, it might not be you. It could very well be the workplace. A workplace that can’t keep right on rolling when one of the team is on PTO is a workplace that hasn’t planned staffed or done talent development well. A workplace that is truly looking out for the well-being of its employees would not leave anyone in a situation where taking a break is more stressful than not taking one.

  • Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 27, 2023

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’m Not a Doctor – How to Help My Team’s Mental Health– I love the idea of modeling the behavior and making it “explicitly acceptable to take breaks.” Updating IT and Custodian Interviews for Today’s Data Sources Organizational Developers: Becoming Trauma Informed Will Elevate How You Operate The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox…

  • A Business Lesson From Reading Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

    She uses these stories as a jumping-off point to talk about goals and failure. When the goal is to finish the marathon, anything other than that is a failure. Despite the change in circumstances, the risk of doing more damage to themselves, and the fact that no one would find fault in them for stopping, they went on with this myopic focus on hitting their goal.

    It got me thinking about OKRs. You know, those quarterly, semi-annual, or annual goals we set for employees during performance reviews, and then measure them solely on whether they hit those goals or not. As if the world doesn’t change in the middle of the time period and forces us to react in a way that might not be part of our stated goals.

    It also got me thinking about company-wide goals like market share, revenue, etc.

  • Linked – It’s Time to Face the Three Challenges of Learning

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    That being said, this isn’t going to change. If the people who work for you aren’t continuously learning your organization is going to fall behind competitors who are learning. The folks who want to learn will end up working for those competitiors. You’ll be left with a group of employees who are comfortable doing the same thing they’ve always done and aren’t interested in learning anything new.

  • Linked – How to invite introverted students to share their thinking in class

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Over the last few years though, as the number of online training sessions and meetings has grown exponentially, I still see it though. There are a significant number of users who will use Teams or Zoom chat instead of speaking up in many forms of gatherings. We should recognize that the chat tool is a perfectly legitimate way for people to interact with a speaker and each other during online meetings. Many people, but especially introverts among us, will be more comfortable chatting like that during a meeting. As a trainer/speaker, it becomes paramount that you learn to pay attention to what is happening in chat or have someone in the meeting be responsible for keeping up with the chat. Otherwise, you’re ignoring part of your audience.

    The other interesting thing that shouldn’t be overlooked is that beyond providing a message board to start the class discussion, it’s also provided ahead of time. Those introverts who need a little time to process new information before providing any input are going to be much more likely to have something to add when there is time to consider the topic.