Training is in such a tail spin, I LOVE IT. The days of "take my staff to an all day event for $250 a head" are finally leaving us . I love it because those events NEVER produce long-term, measurable results. E-learning simply does not work when the courses are long and too generic to really hit home with its learners. In today's fast paced, social media driven world our attention spans are..
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5 Ways to Use Coaching to Drive Performance
TOP 5 WAYS TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE
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Being Specific is Important in Coaching
I am learning more and more we need to be more specific when we are coaching employees. This is not a criticism rather an opportunity for us to become more laser focused and assist our employees to greater performance development. The link below will play a presentation giving some examples so let us know your thoughts.
Training Reinforcement. . . The Key to Successful Training
Training Reinforcement
Every year many companies invest a great deal of time and resources on employee training programs with the expectation that employees will return from training as top selling sales reps, but this is unlikely given that employees will only retain a portion of what they have learned just weeks later. Research continues to emphasize the ineffectiveness of traditional..
Creating a Coaching Plan
How to Create A Coaching Plan
An important element of employee coaching is planning. After an initial employee assessment has been completed, it is vital that a coaching plan be created. The coaching plan can contain any combination of the 5 types of coaching depending on the area of improvement, as well as depth of improvement. Below is a sample-coaching plan created for an employee that needs..
Rating Questions
Coaching Term Of the Week: Rating Question
Rating Question – Rating questions have the added convenience of categorizing performance into either a knowledge, skill, or behavior based function. Knowing how your employees rate themselves will help you to discover any major performance gap issues.
A Coaching Tutorial on Chain Training
Coaching Method Tutorial: Chain Training
Here is another easy and inexpensive training reinforcement method that we use for our clients. Remember there are many reasons training reinforcement programs are important, including increased returns on investment, increased retention of knowledge, increased sales from better-trained teams, etc.