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HR learning and development software

• 4 ways to create a continuous learning culture

  Employees want to grow in their roles and may leave if they feel like they are not. Learn how to create a continuous learning culture and discover how it can help boost retention.  Continue Reading

• AI in hiring: Why HR should beware of bias

  AI in hiring may seem like the perfect solution to remove conscious and unconscious biases that already exist in people, but technology can't solve everything.  Continue Reading

• 6 employee activism lessons HR needs today

  Employee activism spiked last year, and experts say that as the 'age of purpose' gathers force, more workers will follow suit. Here are a few of the lessons HR should learn now.  Continue Reading

• CEO commitment to upskilling employees may boost HR tech

  Top CEOs are promising to train their employees and make sure they are ready for an automating world. Whether the promise is real or marketing fluff remains to be seen.  Continue Reading

• How companies are using social media for learning and development

  Employees aren't just wasting time on social media. Some are learning the career skills that will take them to the next level. Here's why that matters to your organization.  Continue Reading

• Social learning takes its place in employee retention efforts

  Employees are more likely to stay at jobs where they can learn new skills or improve old ones. For companies, that means providing options to do so when appropriate.  Continue Reading

• 5 secrets for a successful employee experience framework

  The complexities of formulating a good employee experience strategy can be intimidating. Here are five tips to ease the process of establishing a great employee workplace.  Continue Reading

• Adoption of HR onboarding software accelerating, says one study

  HR onboarding is an area of talent acquisition that is getting a lot of focus. First impressions count, and there's a link between a bad onboarding experience and turnover.  Continue Reading

• Employee video training platform enables 24/7 coaching

  BetterUp, a startup that is getting investment from Workday, offers a video-based training platform. It has added on-demand coaching, so users can quickly get help.  Continue Reading

• Foot Locker improves its candidate experience and hiring

  Foot Locker has upgraded its talent management systems to improve its candidate experience, automate some functions and sharpen its hiring process with data.  Continue Reading

• How ADP's Executive and Manager Insights tool might disrupt HR

  ADP's Executive and Manager Insights mobile app feature is delivering workforce analytics into the hands of both HR and other business leaders, and creating a more strategic business.  Continue Reading

• Recruiting technology may be hurting veteran employment

  Recruiting technology could be contributing to a higher unemployment rate for young veterans. A startup run by a former sub commander is attempting to change this.  Continue Reading

• Four secrets of a successful flexible work arrangement policy

  The future of work is flexible, and if your company wants to retain its employees, HR must understand how to make this work for employees -- and the company. Here's how.  Continue Reading

• Four continuous performance management best practices

  In today's world, using traditional annual reviews to manage performance is as effective as relying on print newspapers to get breaking news. Here's how to make a shift to ongoing feedback.  Continue Reading

• Nine strategies to increase employee engagement and retention

  Keeping your workers happy enough that they don't look elsewhere is critical considering today's economy. Here are nine tips to help ensure your success.  Continue Reading

• Three keys to an effective succession planning strategy

  Here's what companies and their HR leaders must know about effective succession management, including why it's important and which business and HR functions should be involved.  Continue Reading

• Succession planning best practices you need today

  Michael McGowan, who leads the leadership and talent practice at BPI group, a talent management consultancy, shares important advice on how to get succession management right.  Continue Reading

• How to create an effective employee retention plan

  The unemployment rate is low, and your workers are likely being courted by other companies. Here's how to create retention strategies that will make your workers want to stay put.  Continue Reading

• How to solve six of the biggest employee retention challenges

  Recruiters are enticing workers with new opportunities on an increasingly frequent basis. Give your employees plenty of reasons to stay by addressing the top retention challenges.  Continue Reading

• How AI and machine learning help in upskilling employees

  The rapidly changing technology landscape requires companies to change their approach to L&D and deliver more individualized learning. Here's how AI and machine learning may help.  Continue Reading

• New HR tools and techniques align employee, company goals

  Emerging HR tools and techniques look at augmenting the power of purpose in business by aligning employees' sense of purpose with organizational goals.  Continue Reading

• 3 reasons why you need a new corporate learning strategy

  Employees are getting more and more difficult to retain. That's why learning and development programs are so critical. Here's how to update yours.  Continue Reading

• HR plays to win with gamification for learning

  At some companies, corporate education has become a tool for engagement and employee experience. See how gamification is putting the 'fun' in learning fundamentals.  Continue Reading

• Anti-bias performance management systems coming in 2018

  Combating workplace bias may help drive development of new HR tools to identify and quantify problems. This includes reducing bias in recruiting and improving the hiring pool.  Continue Reading

• Gamification platform aims to engage employees and boost performance

  Cato Networks uses quizzes, puzzles and a racetrack on GamEffective to motivate sales development representatives to achieve weekly targets for calls and scheduling meetings.  Continue Reading

• Learning management platform helps keep Unisys employees up to date

  The vast majority of employees at Unisys said they were more effective at their jobs after completing training on the cloud-based Skillsoft learning management system.  Continue Reading

• Degreed integrates and organizes content from online learning software

  Atlassian and Intel use cloud-based Degreed to integrate e-books, articles, videos and other content and recommend training for employees based on their skills and interests.  Continue Reading

• Performance review tool fuels learning at market research consultancy

  Workers at Lieberman Research Worldwide connect to HighGround for continuous performance management and use results to drive training on the Litmos learning management system.  Continue Reading

• Pokémon GO could boost use of gamification software among businesses

  Before Pokémon GO, Deloitte Consulting touted gamification as maybe the next big thing in leadership training and used an in-house mobile game to improve long-term planning.  Continue Reading

• Engineers at ON24 click with Udemy online learning software

  Organizations such as ON24 and AT&T are using e-learning software from Udemy and Udacity to keep employees up to date on new technical skills at an affordable price.  Continue Reading

• E-learning software a tool for change at San Diego Zoo

  HR chief Tim Mulligan used integrated DDI e-learning and Halogen performance management software to create culture change at the nearly 100-year-old institution.  Continue Reading

• HR leader's passion for nonprofit spurs HCM system upgrade

  Facing resistance to new Cornerstone OnDemand software, Cheryl Carey was inspired by her agency's mission to train young people for good jobs.  Continue Reading

• Informal learning platform strikes a chord at Guitar Center

  Although Guitar Center automated employee training years ago, the system didn't support informal learning. Learn how the retailer achieved harmony with Saba.  Continue Reading

• Buyers should reframe their conception of learning management systems

  Those who say learning management systems can't support informal learning aren't effectively using new capabilities, according to one expert.  Continue Reading

• Learning management software helps companies grow talent

  Not only can learning software instill skills and increase employee retention, one HR manager intends to use it for succession planning.  Continue Reading