You Built it. They Came. Now What?
You accepted the challenge. You have flipped the script on how you approached talent and it is working – time to move on right to the next priority right? Not so fast.
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The WIIFM of Relevant Training
Joe is a new clinical medical assistant at his local hospital. He recently went through a paid training program that the hospital paid for and has committed to being with the hospital for a year. One his first day on the job he is thrown into the deep end, he is told there is no real onboarding program – and he will need to figure out how to do the job he was hired to do. Did you hear that. That ticking sound. The clock has started counting down the weeks, days, minutes, and seconds until Joe leaves.
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Picture It…
Picture it, your office, some day in the future – you have redefined the role profile, you have tons of new qualified candidates, and you have your pick of the best candidate you can imagine. This is awesome right. But how did this come to be?
Your Mission If You Choose To Accept It
Organizations of all sizes, across all industries are challenged to find the talent they need the most. Once you find the talent, it’s a race with the clock to keep that talent as long as you can. (Cue the Mission Impossible Music) – does this feel familiar?
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What Would You Do?
Our current U.S. education and training system is not creating the talent pipeline necessary to meet the hiring demands for skilled trades labor. The current workforce is quickly retiring at a much hire rate that the number of newly created talent. Desperate to fill positions, the wrong people get hired, they lack the skills necessary for the job, there becomes a training burden, and they ultimately quit.
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Talent. It’s Hard. Period.
After decades or leading a variety of organizations, particularly during change, with the expectations of optimizing and growing “business” and inherently retaining, reorganizing, and/or rebuilding the talent within the organization, it’s clear there is no one right answer to the challenge of retaining and growing talent across an organization.
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Front Line Worker Development – 101
If you’ve followed WeLearn and its team for a while, you know we’re huge advocates for Front line Worker development—this idea of investing in your boots-on-the-ground employees because it’s good for their happiness and your bottom line. We know, that was a loaded statement. If you’re new around here, let’s take a minute to unpack that.
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We Who? We Learn!
If you’re new to WeLearn – welcome to the fam! We’re glad you’re here. We want to get to know you, but also want you to understand what we’re all about. So let’s begin!
Wait….Stop Me If You Have Heard This One!
A former student government president, a former game designer, an amateur photographer, a self-taught coder, an English major, and a Hollywood script writer walk into a room. What do they do?
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Do Learners Dream in Corporate Jargon?
We have spent a lot of time talking about changing the way in which we, as digital learning designers and digital learning developers, can change the way in which we build digital learning products. We declared eLearning dead, discussed creating unifying design principles (while speaking Dothraki and Klingon), took a page from the playbook of iconic brands, and talked about some patterns that are worth repeating—but now we want to turn our attention to one of our favorite topics: Content.
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