The post 7 Powerful Tips For Effectively Training And Developing Millennial Employees appeared first on Grovo Blog. Which side of the millennial fence are you on? Do you consider them spoiled trophy kids whose job-hopping tendencies make them poor candidates for long-term development? And if we want to engage them at work, we need to rethink the way we approach organizational learning. MORE

Business Trends Enterprise Learning grovo linkedin lynda.com online learning pluralsight skillsoft Today LinkedIn announced the acquisition of Lynda.com, a pioneering online learning company known for high-quality, expert-led video instruction. MORE

The post 7 Things Every L&D Leader Can Learn From David Bowie appeared first on Grovo Blog. David Bowie is gone. It chills me just to type. He was so…not human. How could he be dead? Facing the strange indeed. As I sifted through various articles about his passing, I saw all sorts of words used to describe him: rock star, artist, visionary, chameleon, and my personal favorite: weirdo. MORE

As I sat down to write this post (to tell you about a new HR communication product from Grovo, full disclosure), I began thinking about some of the most pressing questions facing our industry today: How can we improve the employee experience? That’s why today I’m very excited to tell you about a brand new product from all of us here at Grovo. What’s Grovo Handbook? MORE

The post The 5 Disorders Of Terrible Managers appeared first on Grovo Blog. Having a bad manager is like eating a bad burrito at lunch: it’s uncomfortable and stressful and makes you want to quit your job. The The sad thing is, a stressed-out employee usually means the manager is struggling too. They’ve turned into a robot. They want to work with people. Hello subordinate. MORE

The post How One Innovative L&D Professional is Engaging Employees As a Training Department of One appeared first on Grovo Blog. Georgette Vlangos runs CHOPT Creative Salad’s entire learning program by herself. It’s a monumental task—one that requires precise time management, clear tactics, and a lot of energy. CHOPT’s Director of Training Georgette Vlangos. Broadcast success. MORE

appeared first on Grovo Blog. A few months ago, I was at a family function when an older gentleman next to me in the beverage line started some friendly small talk. He was a former associate of someone’s, well into his retirement, and eager to chit-chat. We stood there and swapped a few pleasantries. Then, about a minute in, a strange look came over him. You need to help me,” he blurted. MORE

Everything. I ran across a good little white paper from Grovo , a workplace learning company, that underscores this point, yet again. China Gorman Data Point Tuesday Employee Development Program Grovo Learning/Development Managerial Effectiveness Performance Productivity Training Employee DevelopmentProductivity? Check. Change management? Check. Communication? Check. Culture? Check. MORE

The post What Pro Quarterbacks Teach Us About Employee Development appeared first on Grovo Blog. The throwing motion of a quarterback is the most complex motor skill in all of sports. Hundreds of elements in the passer’s technique need to be perfect in order for the ball to reach its target. Decisions have to be made in fractions of a second. To Beckham Jr. cementing his legacy. MORE

appeared first on Grovo Blog. Knowledge workers care about what they do for a living. They can’t help it. A job in the knowledge economy requires years of education, innate talents, and a lot of an employee’s time. It’s not just button-pushing. Asked to bring their whole selves to the job, modern knowledge workers crave work that engages their whole selves—including their emotions. MORE

The post 5 Media Tricks That Build Culture Through Learning appeared first on Grovo Blog. More media outlets exist today than ever before. generation ago, most people got their current events from relatively few sources: periodicals, broadcast news, and, quite literally, the water cooler. Stuff that, when we look back on it later, is far more insignificant than it seemed at the time. MORE

Grovo Sapiens. The post The Surprising Difference Between Millennials and Baby Boomers at Work appeared first on Grovo Blog. What exactly makes millennial employees different from their older colleagues? We know that it’s something. Businesses are terrified of not being prepared to engage, retain, or even communicate with millennial workers. than in traditional social norms. MORE

What’s more exciting—and more probable, to us Grovo Sapiens—is the idea that great management is simply the aforementioned set of skills and behaviors. The post Gallup Proves Why Millennials Need Better Managers appeared first on Grovo Blog. Ah, graduation season. At least that’s the sense I got from a Gallup report released last week. The struggle is real. What’s going on here? MORE

The post What the Grateful Dead Can Teach Us About Employee Engagement appeared first on Grovo Blog. A lot of L&D leaders are spending their summer days cooped up inside, thinking L&D thoughts, and worrying. Specifically, many are anxious about employee engagement. How exactly does one get a changing workforce to engage in the work they do every day? What does engagement feel like? MORE

The post 7 Keys To Building a High Impact Learning Culture appeared first on Grovo Blog. When Peter Cappelli published his book Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs several years ago, the Wharton Professor of Management highlighted the growing skills gap in today’s marketplace. Today those numbers remain virtually unchanged. Here’s how. Develop a learning strategy. Train and promote from within. MORE

The post The 5 Philosophies of a Great L&D Program appeared first on Grovo Blog. Never before has it been so easy to create, implement, or measure effective learning in your workplace. If you’re trying to inaugurate an L&D program at your office—or better yet, if you’re exploring how you could do it yourself—here are five learning philosophies to steer you in the right direction. MORE

At Grovo, we extol microlearning, the process of learning complex skills in small, focused segments (have you read our latest microlearning whitepaper yet?). The post 5 L&D Lessons We Can Learn From Olympic Champions appeared first on Grovo Blog. The 2016 Summer Olympic Games are in full swing in Rio de Janeiro! Dreaming of tomorrow, disciplined today. Resilience is a skill. MORE

appeared first on Grovo Blog. For organizations, investing in employee happiness is just good business. Companies with happy employees outperform their competition by 20%. One out of every three employees would give up $5,000 in salary to be happier at work. But somewhere along the line, companies systematized the idea of happiness too much. Another rule to be enforced. We don’t need rules. MORE

The post Celebrate the 25th Birthday of Employee Engagement appeared first on Grovo Blog. An idea as powerful as employee engagement seems like it should have been around forever. Businesses have always employed people, after all, and people have always done their best work when they’ve cared about the outcome of their efforts. Actually, employee engagement is a fairly young idea. MORE

The post The (New) Definition of Employee Engagement appeared first on Grovo Blog. Employee engagement has been one of the most talked-about topics in human capital management for twenty-five years. And yet, despite the attention of professionals from every area of the business world—or maybe because of it—the term itself has never gained a universal definition. What it’s not. Engaged. MORE

The post How To Inspire Millennial Women to Take on Leadership appeared first on Grovo Blog. For the first time in history,  as of October 2015 , more women in the U.S. held bachelor’s degrees than men. Only 24% of millennial men felt that way. Perhaps it’s because the pressures of family and career are still palpable. trails the world in family leave policies. Support mothers and parents. MORE

The post Make Your Company a Magnet for Millennials appeared first on Grovo Blog. As millennials flood the workforce, companies are seeing a massive drop in employee engagement — the lowest it’s been in the past eight years. Further, replacing them is a massive challenge costing companies billions annually. Millennials look for companies that align with their core values. View it here. MORE

The post 5 Reasons Quality Beats Quantity in Training Content appeared first on Grovo Blog. In the Internet age, information is limitless. Everything your employees need to know is out there on the World Wide Web. But who has that kind of time? Forcing your employees to CTRL F their way through search results in order to find the answers they need isn’t an efficient use of their workday. MORE

The post Why Every New Hire Needs A Mentor appeared first on Grovo Blog. The best way to convey the value of constant development to new hires is to get them familiar with what proven success in your organization looks like. Give every rookie that joins your company a mentor to guide them. Here’s why mentoring works: It makes them feel valued. They see a model of being. Mentor and manatee. MORE

The post You Know Nothing: 5 Reasons Jon Snow Needs Management Training appeared first on Grovo Blog. Alert: spoilers below. Is Jon Snow a good manager? It’s a mixed bag. On the one hand, he’s had to deal with his share of adversity. Like many bosses, he was born a bastard, oversees a barren wasteland, and constantly fears betrayal. He’s a great strategist. He’s principled. We’ll never know. MORE

Organizations like Khan Academy , Coursera , EdX , Udacity , as well as companies like Pluralsight , General Assembly , Grovo , and marketplaces like Udemy (where my 21st Century Talent Management Course resides) are growing like weeds. Last week LinkedIn announced the acquisition of Lynda.com , a pioneering online learning company known for high-quality, expert-led video instruction. Lynda's content focuses on creative skills, technology, and over time moving into business skills. So Lynda built out more corporate learning features and more business topics. MORE

Every team at Grovo uses the “slingshot” method to set yearly and quarterly goals. Teams then craft three goals and 10 priorities that align with overall company objectives. –  Jeff Fernandez ,  Grovo Learning, Inc. YEC (Young Entrepreneur Council) surveyed some folks about how they took on team goal-setting. Here Here are their answers. Brainstorming sessions. Goal sheets. Check-ins. MORE

The post Develop or Die: 6(66) Ways To Save Your Organization From the Working Dead appeared first on Grovo Blog. In organizations all over the world, employees are dying inside. They drag themselves to the office and perform their jobs just well enough to not get fired. They nap, snack, and lumber around the workplace, haplessly killing time and strangling your bottom line. Engagement hr MORE

The post A New Definition of Employee Engagement: Think Of It Like Your Health appeared first on Grovo Blog. What exactly is employee engagement? We know it’s a topic trending in every corner of the L&D world. We know it has something to do with being “all-in” on work. Mostly, though, we know that no one knows quite what it is. You don’t achieve it, you maintain it. Engagement hr MORE

According to Grovo Learning, companies recognize the value of training employees on social media and are increasing employee training on social media. By now, we realize social media isn’t going away. In fact, quite the opposite – new social media sites are popping up every day. It’s a challenge to keep current…or even learn the full capabilities of the platform. What is Twitter? BONUS! MORE

See what a better option looks like: read Grovo’s white paper on “ How to Build a 21st Century Learning Ecosystem.” ” The post 7 Things We Learned From Deloitte’s “Meet the Modern Learner” appeared first on Grovo Blog. Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is a snapshot of the challenges facing learning professionals today. MORE