Your sales, service and partner teams can easily receive just-in-time training; improving skills, competency and product knowledge. Learning Stone offers training professionals an instant platform for training and coaching. DiscoverLink Talent. MORE

Organizations should also be looking to develop desirable traits in their leaders that can help support engagement and retention. is the vice president for Talent Acquisition Research at Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP. How are you keeping employees engaged and on board? MORE

Building an Effective Manager Development Program. Last month, Everwise hosted a popular webinar on “Effective Manager Development at Scale” with Kim Bolton, Program Director, Leadership Development at Unum Group. View a recording of the webinar here. MORE

As businesses compete to attract top-notch talent, the need to retain and engage existing employees becomes increasingly important. One option: help employees with their career development. Unfortunately, most professional development falls into one-size-fits-all programs. MORE

Sadly, all too often the same can be said of HR experts and their (non-existent) professional development plans. Not to worry – the start of a new year provides the perfect opportunity to put your professional development plan in place. Assess yourself against standard HR competencies. MORE

If we expect our organizations to compete, much less thrive, in the future, they need to figure out how to effectively devote resources to their middle layer. The role they play in increasingly flat organizations should justify investments in their development. MORE

One of the strategic goals of training is to solve business problems by optimizing employee and leader talent. To align training with the strategy, we must first determine what skills or behaviors (competencies) are needed to meet the new goals. Once we know the needed competencies, we can proceed with five steps to develop high impact training. We need to know what “great performance” looks like so we need definitions for the competencies. Leader Development MORE

Career pathing programs are more than powerful methods for boosting employee engagement and encouraging individual career development. Is it difficult to find qualified, top talent to fill key positions? Finding it difficult to uncover organizational gaps in skills or talent? Creating paths that encourage employees to move through the company, gathering competencies and skills, in specific ways will support overall organizational growth and help eliminate those pain points. MORE

To remain a premier company in today’s national security marketplace, BAE Systems needs to ensure it develops and—importantly—retains its high-potential talent. In a highly specialized sector where talent is in demand and actively recruited, organizational success depends not only on employees’ technical and leadership skills, but also on their ability to shape their career direction and attain their career goals at BAE Systems. BAE Systems Inc., the U.S. MORE

There are a variety of ways that HR and Leadership Teams can help managers improve,” says Becky Thomas, president of coaching firm Be Greater Consulting. The reason this approach is effective is because when the leadership development programs are based on internal feedback, they are more likely to see engagement among the teams, ” she says. Train Managers to be Coaches. HR Tips & Trends Management TalentPeople leave managers, not companies. MORE