Learning & Training

According to TheLadders.com, adaptability, active listening, emotional intelligence, and teamwork are among the top soft skills employers will be looking for in job seekers in 2021. Senior Career Specialist at job service provider FlexJobs, Brie Reynolds, recommends three ways to cultivate soft skills: Identify existing soft skills and build upon them for improvement Enroll in...

Call centers have evolved by a huge degree from the 1960s when the agents used to be housewives functioning as telemarketers. Today, agents require proper call center training to learn how to serve various functions in sales, servicing, marketing, support and what not! More than half of the customers consider the service a business provides...

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From child sexual abuse to coercive sex among college-goers, cases of sexual harassment in Connecticut are more widespread than one would like to think. In this blog, I’ll be focussing on an offense that is no less degrading to victims. I am talking about sexual harassment at the workplace. No respectable company would want to...

Safety is still a major concern for workers, especially in the construction and manufacturing industries. According to the National Safety Council, a worker gets injured on the job every seven seconds. That adds up to 540 work injuries an hour. In 2020, there were 4,113 preventable injury-related deaths among workers, and the cost ran into...

With acts of violence increasing in society each day, workplaces cannot remain immune to them. Today it is common to witness incidents of verbal abuse, intimidations, and physical assaults in the workplace. Confirming this are some shocking statistics from the National Safety Council: Assault is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. workplace....

Maine has always been at the forefront of sexual harassment prevention. In 1991, it became the first state in the U.S. to require sexual harassment training in the workplace. As an employer, you would never want harassment cases to mar your company’s reputation or let your employees face the consequences. Prevention is always better and...

More than 86% of women and 53% of men in California report having experienced sexual harassment in one form or another. Many times, those in positions of power turn out to be perpetrators of workplace sexual harassment. Even if this is not the case, they need to understand the roles they can play in preventing...

Employee training and development is a significant activity in corporate settings. From employees’ perspective, it’s a means to acquire new job-related knowledge and skills, deliver better performance, improve productivity, and advance their careers. Similarly, looking from employers’ standpoint, it’s a proven way to retain and manage talent, improve business ROI, and achieve growth and profitability...

Online learning is helpful to every business sector, but it is particularly remarkable for the corporate world. This is because most companies today employ online learning solutions for employee training.  According to a survey conducted by Bersin & Associates, 60% of 2,000 managers they interviewed prefer to use online training because they find it beneficial...