Learning & Development: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Jun 2020
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How to Foster Workforce Skilling, Reskilling & Upskilling
Learning & Development

How to Foster Workforce Skilling, Reskilling & Upskilling

Businesses in current times operative in a very volatile environment. Changing the technology landscape, competition from new industry segments, regulatory changes & political events impact businesses in more than one way. These changes place their own unique demands not only on leadership but also on the entire workforce. These changes are not only impacting the way […]

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Reset L&D strategy in times of the crisis
Coronavirus

Reset L&D strategy in times of the crisis

What’s the one common thing between successful businesses of all shapes and sizes, across geographies and industries? A continuous learning culture, amongst other things. And driving this culture is a bunch of committed individuals (L&D or HR) and robust systems that work day-in and day-out to ensure that employees have instant access to learning – […]

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New Rules of eLearning Strategy at the Workplace
Learning & Development

New Rules of eLearning Strategy at the Workplace

One thing is pretty clear by now. The world will never be the same again after 2020. It will now be recalibrated in the new temporal zones BC (Before COVID-19) and AC (After COVID-19). And this includes the corporate and business environments, especially since a large part of how we work and function will depend […]

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Indian Education
Learning & Development

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Indian Education

AI has the promise of leading the education sector in India. We have a young population with over 600 million in the learning age. Unfortunately, our education infrastructure is far from adequate in doing justice to this huge population. Consequently, we stand at the juncture where our education renders only about 46% of our graduates […]

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Culture of Learning in Today’s World
Learning & Development

Culture of Learning in Today’s World

According to Edgar Schein, culture shapes the behaviors of people in an organization. Learning is both a skill and behaviour and for that to happen in a consistent and effective manner, it is essential that organizations build a culture of learning. Learning in Today’s World With multiple online learning platforms offering learning for no or […]

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Leaders and Reverse Shadow: What would it look like?
Leadership

Leaders and Reverse Shadow: What would it look like?

The last decade has transformed work and more importantly, lives at work. Macroeconomic shifts and localization trends have joined forces with technological disruption thus redrawing boundaries and notions of corporate work life. What seemed the norm yesterday has now got cast aside as dated. Given this ever-changing milieu of patterns, behaviors and fluid evolution, making […]

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Value of Soft Skills in the Workplace
Culture & Behaviour

Value of Soft Skills in the Workplace

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command” – Steven Pressfield The challenge for any Human Resource Management or Learning and Development Team is how to maintain a fine balance between the hard and soft skills of their employees […]

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In Conversation with Nishchae Suri on L&D Technology
Business

In Conversation with Nishchae Suri on L&D Technology

In an exclusive Conversation, we have Mr. Nishchae Suri, President – Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa at EdCast. He is a senior industry leader, prior to EdCast, Nishchae was a senior Partner with KPMG in India and Head of the KPMG Academy. He has over two decades of rich experience in areas of HR […]

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Learning Technologies & Future of L&D
Learning & Development

Learning Technologies & Future of L&D

The rapid development of Technology is not only disrupting the existing business models and is also posing a new question, “where is the competition going to come from”? In an era where knowledge is easily and almost equally accessible to all, the one who converts the knowledge to bring about the competitive advantage and disrupts […]

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Can A Culture Of Coaching Help Businesses To Get Ahead In Changing Times?
Learning & Development

Can A Culture Of Coaching Help Businesses To Get Ahead In Changing Times?

Re-inventing organizations that can flourish in 2020s is the critical business need today! While leadership teams and business academia across the globe are aggressively discussing way forward, current business trends make it apparent that re-inventing is not going to be a trivial task. There can be no one approach that fits all but, a WEF […]

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Unlocking the Potential of Digital Learning
Learning & Development

Unlocking the Potential of Digital Learning

Digital Learning industry is booming, and will grow to USD 325 Bn by 2025 globally according to Forbes. Closer home, it shows a 25% growth rate in India and is projected to be a USD 1.96 Bn industry by 2021. LinkedIn’s 2019 Workplace Learning report says that 59% of companies will increase spends on online […]

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