This is an exciting time for corporate training. The workforce is changing to a younger, more technologically savvy demographic, thus presenting training managers with new challenges. The methods, strategies, and solutions used to for employee training and eLearning are evolving as well. Increased use of video, expanded opportunities for collaboration, and the adoption of tablet technology are dynamically transforming the corporate training game.
Experts in the corporate training space are writing about the revolution in progress. For training managers and executives who can’t get enough of the topic, there are plenty of must-read articles online. Here is a sampling of some of our favorites:
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Will You Ride the Millennial Wave? Allison O’Kelly, writing for Talent Management, looks at the burgeoning millennial generation of employees and what it expects from the workplace.
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What Millennial Employees Really Want: Author Adam Smiley Poslowsky also examines the millennial workforce and offers advice to companies hoping to maximize the potential of the current generation in this piece for Fast Company.
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Are Training Trends Driven By Youth or Technology? Bill Leonard, a senior writer for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), explores whether millennials are truly effecting change in corporate training or if technology the real catalyst.
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Corporate Training? Too Many Businesses Hope to Just Hire It In: Joanna Riley Weidenmiller, writing for Huffington Post, explores how corporate training is essential to retaining talent.
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Best Practices for Employee Training and Onboarding: In this Tech.Co article, Eyal Lewinson explains why the onboarding process of new employees is so important.
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2014 Training Industry Report: This comprehensive survey published by Training Magazine provides data set after data set on the state of corporate training and offers a glimpse at what trends are emerging.
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Today’s State of Work: The Productivity Drain: Though not an article per se, this infographic assembled by ServiceNow summarizes the results of a survey of nearly 1,000 managers about how they spend their time at work. The study is especially revealing considering how much time managers spend training and onboarding employees—and how that time is preventing them from other crucial tasks.
What must-read corporate training articles do you recommend?
