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Leading the way
Ideas and insights from Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning
© 2024 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.
What Learners Want: 3 Tips for Successful L&D Programs
/in Uncategorized /As learning and development (L&D) professionals, when we go about designing and implementing successful L&D programs for the organization, we have to take into account the perspectives of a number of different constituencies. When doing our design thinking, we need to consider the perspective of our organization’s senior executives and what results they hope to achieve with their investments in learning. Additionally, we want to factor in current thinking and best practices from experts in our field. And we must also (and always) think about our programs through the lens of the learners: What is it that learners want out […]
Conduct Better Interviews: 3 Tips
/in Uncategorized /The interview process is a critical first step in an employee’s journey with your organization. It’s an opportunity to discover how well a candidate’s skills line up with your open position, as well as gauge how their unique experiences and values might add value to your culture and organizational goals. It’s also your chance to make a good impression. In a hyper-competitive market for talent, the interview may be a make-or-break experience when it comes to a candidate deciding to accept your offer. Most professionals will be involved in interviewing job candidates at some point in their careers, and they […]
Smarter Hiring Decisions Start with Skills
/in Uncategorized /To build a successful team and make smarter hiring decisions, you obviously need to attract skilled candidates for open positions. It may be tempting to assemble a laundry list of qualifications, such as degrees and years of experience, to find the right applicants. But as the competition for talent continues at a blistering pace, including too many requirements could needlessly shrink your talent pool and prevent you from finding strong candidates for the position. Automated hiring platforms screen out more than 27 million “hidden” workers—applicants with unconventional backgrounds, such as caregivers, veterans, and immigrants—in the US alone. Harvard […]
How to Attract and Keep Top Talent
/in Uncategorized /For managers involved in attracting, developing, and keeping talent, the headlines can be daunting. On Forbes, we read that A War for Talent Is Starting. CFO.com tells us Most Companies [Are] Struggling to Hire Workers. A piece published by SHRM asks, Why Are So Many Employees Quitting? Harvard Business Review offers an answer in an article entitled The Real Secret to Retaining Talent. Hiring’s difficult. So is keeping the employees you have. There’s no denying that the competition for talent is fierce. A tight labor market made tighter The headlines may be daunting, but they’re also recognizable […]
How Mahindra is Helping our People ‘Rise’
/in Uncategorized /“Learning helps me prioritize my work, and most importantly it made me start thinking about the objective of my life.” This was one of the interesting pieces of feedback we received from a participant in our L&D program. It implied an awakening of the mind to the untapped potential for improvement, and that is the key objective of any good learning initiative. The Mahindra Group’s foundation rests on this culture of sparking people’s potential for improvement. We call it our Rise philosophy, our North Star that always guides all our actions. For over seven decades, the Mahindra Group has been […]