In Erik Wahl’s closing session at ATD 2015, he got the crowd whipped into a frenzy of excitement, eager to get back to work and make disruptive changes to their corporation. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I saw 50-year old men whooping and hollering. We jumped until the floor shook. We cried. We […]
When Good HR People Go Bad: How to Improve HR’s Bad Reputation
I have heard a lot of people complain about HR at their company. It seems to be common practice to talk about how incompetent HR people are. Let’s face it: we often get a bad rap. While there are HR people out there who give us a bad reputation, I think there are far more […]
The Power of Self-Directed Learning
In the digital age, many young workers inherently understand self-directed learning, even if we’ve never heard the term. Who among us hasn’t used Google to solve a technical issue, or spent hours in a Wikipedia hole because we were so fascinated by the minutia of the respiratory system? Learning on your own time, at your […]
Interview With Juliana Trichilo Cina On Learning, Communications and Vanilla Sky
Editor: Tell us about your personal career history and what brought you to your current company. Juliana: My love for communications cannot be overstated. I studied English and Political Science. With politics, I was enthralled with the game legislators play when they very intentionally codify law so its interpretation is clear, only to have […]
When Your Team’s Energy Is Low It Hurts Productivity And Innovation
When your team’s energy level is low it not only affects productivity but also members’ ability to think innovatively and carry new ideas forward. Allowing energy to drain is very costly Several things can affect energy but a major one that we commonly see is team members giving too much attention to things over which […]
10 Reasons To Hire Students
As a former co-op student and current co-op employer, I always get excited when we welcome a new co-op recruit to Learnography. Here are some of the reasons why.
The Gender Pay Gap: Does it Continue to Exist?
The gender pay gap (also commonly referred to as pay equity) is a topic that continues to puzzle and engage me; my interest in this topic started almost 20 years ago when I started my career in health care and continued to plague me while I completed my post-graduate work and as I “climbed the […]
Why is it so Hard to Find a Work/Life Balance?
Work seems to have infiltrated every aspect of our lives these days. We used to be limited with the amount of work we could take home; however, with technology giving us the ability to work from almost anywhere, there seems to be this expectation that we respond to everything right away. Many of us crave […]