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How Companies Can Help Universities Train Tech Workers

Harvard Business Review

Companies across the economy require new tech workers who have the training in state-of-the art technologies so they can hit the ground running. A model that has been applied at universities such as Arizona State, the University of California San Diego, and Oregon State, and Purdue can help address this need.

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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

This is what a large body of research into the effectiveness of creativity training has set out to answer. After all, we have previously seen that most corporate creativity training is not actually designed to deliver results. So is it possible for people to improve their creativity, even if it has fallen over time?

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How the Food Industry Is Using Cross-Training to Boost Service

Harvard Business Review

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. When employees are cross-trained to perform a variety of both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks, they can adjust their work depending on demand and business needs.

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The Failure of Innovation Training

Innov8rs

The macroeconomic climate is battering companies around and leading to budget cuts across the board. Companies are focusing on the core business and cutting funding to anything viewed as risky or not of immediate value. Having the best AI writing assistant on the market is useless if you work for an ice cream company.

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5 Reasons Leaders Invest in Language Training

It can create international trade, build partnerships, and grow company revenue, but language barriers often stand in the way of such progress. Luckily, there is one very simple and effective solution: language training. Improved training and development for new hires. An increase in employee engagement.

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How Data Collaboration Platforms Can Help Companies Build Better AI

Harvard Business Review

There are three immediate challenges for companies that want to train fine-tuned AI models: 1) they require extensive, high-quality data — a scarce resource for many enterprises, 2) third-party AI models can include problematic biases, and 3) training fine-tuned models with users’ personal data may result in privacy violations.

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How To Drive and Sustain Innovation With Learning and Development Training

IdeaScale

Innovation and training? Having a well-strategized innovation strategy is the key to maintaining your company’s competitive advantage. According to the 2019 L&D report from findcourses.com, companies with growing revenue are 3x more likely to predict an increase in their L&D budget. They go hand-in-hand.

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The L&D Strategy Roundtable

Speaker: Cara North - Learning & Development Consultant, Speaker, & Researcher | Maggie Quigley - Senior Account Executive for US Market Userlane

Some of the factors that contribute to the high cost of employee training include organization size, stakeholder involvement, and fund availability. As L&D professionals, how can we reduce these expenditures while maximizing our training and ROI? Tips and strategies for increasing engagement and making training more digestible.

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9 Warning Signs Your Employees Need Language Training

Most global companies are diverse in perspectives, backgrounds, and yes, language. Learn the 9 warning signs your employees need language training today! Language barriers can compound existing communication problems, often resulting in business losses.

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Designing For Engagement: Revive Your L&D Strategy with Gamification, VR, and More

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, ELB Learning & Luke Talbot - Chief Product Officer, Userlane

With the emergence of AI-enabled coaching and teaching platforms, companies are being inundated with new training modalities that promise a bright future for eLearning. But how do you choose and implement the right technology for your company? What an exciting time for L&D professionals! Video coaching programs.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.