Strategies After Employee Training

Strategies After Employee TrainingStrategies After Employee TrainingSuccessfultraining andemployee development efforts provide a real-time connection between the classroom and the workplace. Without this connection, most of what employees learn and experience in training sessions never shows up at work. Many suggestions for helping employeestransfertraining to the workplace focus on actions and best practices that should take place before and during the employee training session to promote the transfer of learning to the job. Transfer Activities Equally important to training transfer are the activities that start during and occur following the employee training session. Youneed to create an on-the-job environment that fosters the ability of employees to apply what they have learned in training to their jobs. These nine guidelines will help employees transfer knowledge learned in training sessions to their jobs. Nine Guidelines Work with the supervisor to make certain the indi vidual who attended training has a weg to practice the new skills. As an example, if a group attends training in how to run an effective meeting, each part must schedule and run a meeting within a week of the training. This is not to encourage more meetings, but with frequent practice, the individuals need the opportunity to apply their learning quickly following the employee training session.The training provider, the trainee, and the supervisor all need to understand that a learning curve is involved in every attempt to apply training on the job. The person who attended the employee training needs time for the new ideas, skills, or thoughts to sink in or become assimilated and connected to what they already know and believe. Tie the employee development goals closely into an organization-wide performance management and development process. This enables the employee to participate in establishing the goals. The system helps create accountability for follow-up and learning. This poi nt cannot stress this tie-in enough. Employee training that is provided as part of a bigger picture, as important to a staff persons development and progress, is the most useful training at work.The trainee should work with her supervisor to plan additional needed training or coaching based on her experience of applying the learning on the job. Both peer and supervisory 360-degree feedback, formally or informally, can help the individual assess progress and needed assistance. Testing is not a favorite workplace word, but testing the application of training following the training sessions, at stated intervals, can assist with transfer. In one client company, staff members are developing a testing process that will certify employees as trained in a particular work process. Periodic reassessment is planned, along with job rotation, to ensure that all people perform each of the work processes regularly.As part of most employee training sessions, participants receive training manuals, tr aining resources and job aids, and a bibliography of additional sources of information. The person who attended the training needs to make use of all of these materials to reinforce their learning. Facilitate access, if possible.A trend in organizations and training that is exciting is that people attending employee training sessions are receiving books in addition to the training materials. Whole work units are purchasing the same book and reading it together and holding discussion meetings, frequently called employee book clubs.In a health care center, tapes from a national conference were viewed during work time by all members of the organization. An old-fashioned popcorn machine provided a positive incentive for people to feel good about attending the employee training sessions. One of the most effective methods for reinforcing learning is to establish a norm within a workplace that every person who attends employee training or a conference is expected to train others, share the training materials and the learning experience, upon their return. It is one way to ensure that individuals who attend employee training spend a significant amount of time understanding and applying the material. One of the best measures of learning is the ability to teach others.Provide supervisory staff with job aids or follow-up lessons and brief readings to reinforce and support the training concepts with employees on the job. Training staff can provide these as part of the training materials and can co-facilitate until the supervisor is comfortable doing employee training. The goal is to encourage supervisors and coworkers to train each other. Following the employee training, people who attended can form an informal network for support and encouragement. Assigning a training partner at the session is also useful. Reviewing expectations of the network and the training partner at the session is also valuable.The training presenter can facilitate this process of follow-up for emp loyee training. In these days of electronic communication, people can share a forum, an email mailing list, or a weekly online chat, as well as meeting in person. Implement more of these ideas to follow up on employee training to ensure the likelihood that trainees transfer classroom training to the workplace. The business of building productive, exciting workplaces in which people continue to grow and develop is a service to both the employees and the organizations. It sounds like a win-win time investment.

Work From Home as a Teacher With Connections Academy

Work From Home as a Teacher With Connections AcademyWork From Home as a Teacher With Connections AcademyBased in Baltimore, MD, this company develops online curricula and implements them in what it calls its online academies for K-12 students. The companys clients, which in general are state governments and school districts, contract with Connections Academy in order to offer free, public online education to a segment of its students. The company then develops curricula specific to the states or districts needs. Connections Academy also offers its own private K-12 online school, available to those in other states. Starting a Teaching Career at Connections Academy Because the companyclients base spans many states, all of whichoffer different curricula and services to their students, Connections Academy hires a wide range of education professionals in both teaching and non-teaching positions. Its home-based teaching jobs for certified elementary and secondary teachers often target applicants in certain statesthat havespecialized skills, like sign language, or in particular subject matter. Non-teaching positions include counselors, administrators, principals and speech pathologists. Again, most of these are for particular states and require certification and/or licensing. Also, there is work for instructional designers, editors, writers and others who work on the back-end of its course production process. Some of these, like assessment and curriculum writers, are home-based jobsfor independent contractors, not employees. While many of the jobs the company offers are home-based, most of its positions are in an office, so read the postings carefully. Some of the home-based positions require residency in a specific state.Most of the teaching positions are full-time with benefits, but there are part-time substitute teaching jobs. Qualifications and Application Requirements vary for each position, but residency and certification in a specific state are usually required. The states in which Connections Academy has schools, and in turn potentially offers home-based jobs ArizonaCaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaIndianaIdahoIowaKansasLouisianaMichiganMinnesotaNevadaOhioOklahomaOregonSouth CarolinaTexasUtahWyomingIts corporate offices in Maryland Connections may hire home-based jobs in other states, and this list is subject to change. To apply go to the Connections Academy website and search the postings by your location. You can sign up to have potential jobs emailed to you and to view a virtual information session for prospective teachers.

Technology giants didnt deserve public trust in the first place

Technology giants didnt deserve public trust in the first placeTechnology giants didnt deserve public trust in the first placeAmazon may have been expecting lots of public attention when it announced where it would establish its new headquarters but like many technology companies recently, it probably didnt anticipate how negative the response would be. In Amazons chosen territories of New York and Virginia, local politicians balked at taxpayer-funded enticements promised to the company. Journalists across the political spectrum panned the deals and social media filled up with the voices of New Yorkers and Virginians pledging resistance.Similarly, revelations that Facebook exploited anti-Semitic conspiracy theories to undermine its critics legitimacy indicate that instead of changing, Facebook would rather go on the offensive. Even as Amazon and Apple saw their stock-market values briefly top US$1 trillion, technology executives were dragged before Congress, struggled to coherently take a stance on hate speech, got caught covering up sexual misconduct and saw their own employees protesting business deals.In some circles this is being seen as a loss of public trust in the technology firms that promised to remake the world socially, environmentally and politically or at least as frustration with the way these companies have changed the world. But the technology companies need to do much mora than regain the publics trust they need to prove that they deserved it in the first place which, when placed in the context of the history of technology criticism and skepticism, they didnt.Looking away from the problemsBig technology companies used to frame their projects in vaguely utopian, positive-sounding lingo that obscures politics and public policy, transcending partisanship and conveniently avoiding scrutiny. Google used to remind its workers Dont be evil. Facebook worked to make the world more open and connected. Who could object to those ideals?Scholars warn ed about the dangers of platforms like these, long before many of their founders were even born. In 1970, social critic and historian of technology Lewis Mumford predicted that the goal of what he termed computerdom would be to furnish and process an endless quantity of data, in order to expand the role and ensure the domination of the power system. That same year a seminal essay by feminist thinker Jo Freeman warned about the inherent power imbalances that remained in systems that appeared to make everyone equal.Similarly, in 1976, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum predicted that in the decades ahead people would find themselves in a state of distress as they became increasingly reliant on opaque technical systems. Countless similar warnings have been issued ever since, including important recent scholarship such as information scholar Safiya Nobles exploration of how Google searches replicate racial and gender biases and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathans declaration that th e problem with Facebook is Facebook.The technology companies are powerful and wealthy, but their days of avoiding scrutiny may be ending. The American public seems to be starting to suspect that the technology giants were unprepared, and perhaps unwilling, to assume responsibility for the tools they unleashed upon the world.In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concern remains high that Russian and other foreign governments are using any available social media platform to sow discord and discontent in societies around the globe.Facebook has still not solved the problems in data privacy and transparency that caused the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Twitter is the preferred megaphone for President Donald Trump and home to disturbing quantities of violent hate speech. The future of Amazons corporate offices is shaping up to be a multi-sided brawl among elected officials and the people they supposedly represent.Is it ignorance or naivete?Viewing the present situation w ith the history of critiques of technology in mind, its hard not to conclude that the technology companies deserve the crises they are facing. These companies ask people to entrust them with their emails, personal data, online search histories and financial information, to the point that many of these companies proudly tout that they know individuals better than they know themselves. They promote their latest systems, including smart speakers and smart cameras, seeking to ensure that users every waking moment and sleeping moments too can be monitored, feeding more data into their money-making algorithms.Yet seemingly inevitably these companies go on to demonstrate how unworthy of trust they actually are, leaking data, sharing personal information and failing to prevent hacking, as they slowly fill the world with a disturbing techno-paranoia worthy of an episode of Black Mirror.Technology firms responses to each new revelation fit a standard pattern After a scandal emerges, the com pany involved expresses alarm that anything went wrong, promises to investigate, and pledges to do better in the future. Some time days, weeks or even months later, the company reveals that the scandal welches a direct result of how the system was designed, and trots out a dismayed executive to express outrage at the destructive uses bad people found for their system, without admitting that the problem is the system itself.Zuckerberg himself told the U.S. Senate in April 2018 that the Cambridge Analytica scandal had taught him we have a responsibility to not just give people tools, but to make sure that those tools are used for good. Thats a pretty fundamental lesson to have missed out on while creating a multi-billion-dollar company.Rebuilding from whats leftUsing any technology from a knife to a computer carries risks, but as technological systems increase in size and complexity the scale of these risks tends to increase as well. A technology is only useful if people can use i t safely, in ways where the benefits outweigh the dangers, and if they can feel confident that they understand, and accept, the potential risks. A couple of years ago, Facebook, Twitter and Google may have appeared to most people as benign communication methods that brought more to society than they took away. But with every new scandal, and bungled response, more and more people are seeing that these companies pose serious dangers to society.As tempting as it may be to point to the off button, theres not an easy solution. Technology giants have made themselves part of the fabric of daily life for hundreds of millions of people. Suggesting that people just quit is simple, but fails to recognize how reliant many people have become on these platforms and how trapped they may feel in an increasingly intolerable situation.As a result, people buy books about how bad Amazon is by ordering them on Amazon. They conduct Google searches for articles about how much information Google knows a bout each individual user. They tweet about how much they hate Twitter and post on Facebook articles about Facebooks latest scandal.The technology companies may find themselves ruling over an increasingly aggravated user base, as their platforms spread the discontent farther and wider than possible in the past. Or they might choose to change themselves dramatically, breaking themselves up, turning some controls over to the democratic decisions of their users and taking responsibility for the harm their platforms and products have done to the world. So far, though, it seems the industry hasnt gone beyond offering half-baked apologies while continuing to go about business as usual. Hopefully that will change. But if the past is any guide, it probably wont.Zachary Loeb, Ph.D. Student in History and Sociology of Science, University of PennsylvaniaThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Employee Engagement Tips From Undercover Boss

Employee Engagement Tips From Undercover BossEmployee Engagement Tips From Undercover BossEmployee Engagement Tips From Undercover Boss HolzmanThe success of the television series Undercover Bosswould have been welcome any time, but the show came along at a uniquely fortuitous moment for our production company, senderaum Lambert. It welches our first show in the United States and while the benefits of a hit TV series need no explanation, there welches a less obvious and, for me, entirely unexpected result that would ultimately shape our company it would also become a valuable management lesson in cultivating employee motivation and employee engagement.Filming a CEOs Undercover Spot ChecksIt started on the pilot. It was a great coup for us to land Waste Management (WM) and their anfhrer, Larry ODonnell. WMs vast and varied operations stretch across the country and encompass hundreds of collection operations, transfer stations, landfill sites, waste-to-energy and recycling plants, alon g with a fleet of over 21,000 vehicles.As Chief Operating Officer, Larry had oversight of all of this along with the more than 45,000 Waste Management gruppe members who make their company run. Larry had been in his position for a few years at this point and had so much confidence in his operations and such an earnest desire to learn how he could improve them that he was willing to allow our camera crew to tag along as he went undercover within his company to spot check systems and their staff.Our team, on the other hand, was brand new. Some of us had worked together before but many of us had not. Our first day filming with Larry was also our first day filming together. We were just getting to know each other and our roles and relationships were only just beginning to be defined.As we struggled to stay on top of everything, traveling to a new city every day,shipping gear, moving staff, waking early, working late I couldnt help but compare my struggles in managing a 20-person oper ation with Larry ODonnells aplomb in dropping in unexpectedly (and in disguise, no less) on some of his 45,000 employees.It would not be the belastung time I marveled at the executive talent we were lucky enough to observe closely while filming this series. Of course, their undercover missions were not always easy ones, but suffice it to say, it takes a great deal of skill to manage the enormous companies featured on Undercover Boss. We were receiving weekly tutorials in the art of management from some of the very best bosses in America.The Power of Team EffortOne lesson in particular has been especially resonant for me. I think this lesson lies at the heart of the shows appeal the importance of appreciating and acknowledging the contributions of every member of a team. It may seem simple, and I suppose it is, but it boils down to remembering to say thank you.As we worked on our new book, Undercover Boss Inside the TV Phenomenon That Is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere, we e ncountered the benefits and importance of this elementary idea over and over again.At the end of each episode of Undercover Boss, our bosses reveal their true identities in one-on-one meetings with the frontline employees theyve worked beside. In most cases, the boss has been impressed or moved by the employees. Often, they take the opportunity at these meetings to thank and appreciate those employees for their work. And as weve witnessed each week, these moments can be very emotional.Watching these moments first hand, I couldnt help but be moved to reflect on our staff and the contributions each person makes to this show. We obviously appreciate that each of us has a role to perform and that our success is largely the sum of those contributions, but its one thing to know it and another to say it and do it.Seeing how moved the employees are when their boss thanks them and watching as bosses see for themselves the incredibly hard-working and talented people who contribute to their t eams success prompted me to take a fresh eye to our staff and to my style of management.As we produced our first show and began to assemble our team in the United States, we placed a strong emphasis on appreciating all of our team members. The idea that we are only as good as our people was fixed at the forefront of our minds. And we knew that the best way we could attract and retain them was by acknowledging and appreciating their unique contributions. Undercover Boss taught us that.Strive to Promote Employee AccountabilityOver the past two years, Studio Lambert has grown quickly. Today, in addition to Undercover Boss, we have added four other series and even more pilots. Our shows reflect a range of styles and sensibilities, but they share a few common threads. They are the work of an engaged group of talented and passionate filmmakers who do much more than just come to work each day. From the lowest entry-level production assistant to the executive producers in charge of each sh ow, Studio Lambert employs some of the best people that can be found in any position in our business. Each of them is the reason for our success.This note is addressed to our people, to each of our team members, freelancers, vendors, executives and associates who contribute their talents and efforts to our shows every day. We cant possibly say it often enough Thank You. I would recommend this tactic for any business large or small thats striving for success.Author BioEli Holzman is Executive Producer of the hit reality TV show Undercover Boss and author of the newly released book, Undercover Boss Inside the TV Phenomenon That Is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere, published by Jossey-Bass.

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