Editor’s Note

Can’t understand the reason behind low employee morale? Have you tried providing employees with increased incentives and still face low productivity? Is the employee attrition rate as high as ever no matter what you do?

These are common questions corporates ask one another when trying to understand what makes employees so resistant towards the organization. Often, organizations try everything possible to solve this puzzle, but still end up short. So what is really driving this employee resistance? And more importantly, what does it take to address this situation?

Check out this editions' cover article The Beauty Of Empowering Employees With Training And Development by Anand Timothy, to know the answers.

Today’s adult learners have their concentration pulled in more directions, have more responsibilities, and more methods of accessing their training than ever before. It’s essential that their training method acknowledges this and works with them.

Training used to take place in traditional e-learning classrooms, which are often overly rigid and challenging for a variety of learners to connect with.

How can facilitators remedy this?

In Why Microlearning Is The Future Of Training, Katie Flanagan talks about how microlearning will address the fundamental issue all HR professionals are facing - retention.

Moving on there is Mostafa Sayyadi Ghasabeh's Building Effective Learning Companies, where he talks about how American CEOs are implementing change management to improve learning within companies.

Also read Boosting Company Performance by Cordell Riley and How to Always Have Time for Learning and Development, by Tim Eisenhauer, among other articles in this edition of Training and Development Excellence.

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