Maternity leave is a core component of virtually any benefits package for both small and large companies. However, it’s also one of the most misunderstood subjects for many professionals. Our article is going to help teach you about how maternity leave works and the primary differences between it and other subjects like FMLA and short term disability coverage. How Does Maternity Leave … [Read more...]
Maternity Leave for Federal Employees: What You Need to Know
Typically, states are required to establish their own laws on managing employees. This allows state lawmakers to craft rules and guidelines that adhere to conditions in specific areas. Uniquely, employees of the federal government are not required to adhere to state-established laws. Instead, federal employees are guided by laws established by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). When it … [Read more...]
5 Strategies for Effective Communication in the Workplace
Proper communication in the workplace is one of the most important things to work on for any business. Fortunately, there are several strategies for effective communication that you can implement today. Our article is going to cover five of the best strategies currently available to make sure your workers are communicating as efficiently as possible. 1. Familiarize Yourself With The Different … [Read more...]
How to Implement the Right Emergency Action Plan: 8 Tips
It's a wise thing to prepare for emergencies. After all, that's why people buy insurance. However, the type of insurance mentioned here is the self-reliant kind. No insurance company can help you when there are no light in your town or the grocery store shelves are empty. Preparing for this type of emergency is something you must do for yourself. If you have a business, than you also definitely … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Determine If There’s a Bully Boss in Your Company
When most people think of the word bully, they picture their grade school or teenage years. Unfortunately, bullying can also carry over into adulthood. If you think there may be a bully boss in your company, it’s important to know which signs to watch out for. Read on for ways to determine if you’re dealing with a bully boss. 10 Ways to See if You Have a Bully Boss 1. They Humiliate Their … [Read more...]
Top 10 Contract Management Software for Managing Your Workforce and Clients
One of the most important factors that contribute to the success of any business is contract management. And you can't really do that efficiently without contract management software, can you? You enter many contracts as you hire employees and interact with your clients. Without proper contract management practices, it is possible that so many things can go wrong. There could be bottlenecks in the … [Read more...]
What Are the Barriers to Effective Communication?
Imagine the following situation. You work in a company, and you want to have a discussion with your CEO. You express this desire to your Manager. He or she takes it up with the Director, who goes to your CEOs secretary. Finally, after all this dangling about, you get to meet your Main Man. In the meantime, your message gets distorted because it went through three people. This is just one of the … [Read more...]
What is a flipped classroom?
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. In the traditional classroom, the teacher lectures for the majority of the class time, gives an assignment, and students usually have very limited or no time at all to work on the assignment in class where the help is - while the teacher is present. The flipped classroom is conducted in nearly the opposite fashion. In the flipped classroom, students are assigned … [Read more...]
Planning Training with a Bias Toward Scarcity
Shirley J. Caruso When planning training, the relationship between resources (people, time, and money) and budget can become rather complicated. This relationship can become even more complicated when resources are scarce. It is logical to assume that increased money resources enable investment of more people and time to the training project. Conversely, a limited budget seems to imply that less … [Read more...]
Assessing Training Effectiveness – The Legacy of Donald Kirkpatrick
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Donald Kirkpatrick (March 15, 1924 – May 9, 2014), Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), which is now known as Association for Talent Development (ATD), first published his Four-Level Training Evaluation Model in 1959, in the US Training and Development Journal. Assessing training … [Read more...]