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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

According to the 2014 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement survey of the Society for Human Resource Management, 40 percent of employees rated job-specific training as “very important” to their satisfaction, and 36 percent rated professional development the same way. Review the employee handbook. People leave managers, not jobs.

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How Much Do Your Employees Know About Their Benefits?

Associations Now

A new survey found many employees don’t read their employee handbooks. Here’s a look at how to better communicate benefits information. How do you tell your staff about their employee benefits? If it’s via a handbook, chances are a lot of your employees may not be getting all the information.

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Learning is the Work

Beth Kanter

. — Jason Adam Young (@jasonadamyoung) March 27, 2014. She’s written a book about this, “ The Social Learning Handbook.” After Jane’s keynote, Harold lead a master class with practical exercises on how to “learn the new” or manage/design and use a professional learning network.