Austin McNair — September 5, 2018 — September 5, 2018 889520 / Pixabay It’s not enough today to simply have a business plan. To succeed in a highly competitive, crowded marketplace (and what marketplace isn’t crowded and competitive these days?) it’s critical to have a business development plan. Historically, business development has been a subset … Continue reading Why You Need a Business Development Plan
Darleen DeRosa — September 2, 2018 Follow @onpoint_llc — September 2, 2018 A Professional Development Plan (PDP) is a valuable document that establishes both your career development goals and a strategy for meeting them. Whether you’re starting out in your professional career or reassessing your future development, a PDP serves as a useful roadmap that … Continue reading How to Write a Powerful Professional Development Plan
Debbie Harris — August 20, 2018 Follow @DebbieLeeHarris— August 20, 2018 Workforce development and Facebook can be a good match. As the economy continues to rebound, particularly in certain fields and in certain places, workforce development can be a challenge. Here in the Las Vegas area, construction is booming again and labor is hard to … Continue reading 5 Tips to Using Facebook for Workforce Development
Rick Lepsinger — August 14, 2018 Follow @onpoint_llc — August 14, 2018 ar130405 / Pixabay Organizations invest a great deal of time, effort, and money into their leadership development programs. It stands to reason, then, that they would like to know whether or not these programs are actually functioning as intended. Ongoing evaluation and reassessment … Continue reading How to Tell if Your Leadership Development Programs Are Working
Rick Lepsinger — July 30, 2018 Follow @onpoint_llc — July 30, 2018 Frantichek / Pixabay Effective training and development programs can greatly benefit an organization, leading to higher levels of employee engagement and reduced turnover rates. Although these programs have historically been among the first items to be cut in difficult times, training budgets have … Continue reading Boost Leadership Development With Corporate Training Programs
Darleen DeRosa — July 10, 2018 Follow @onpoint_llc — July 10, 2018 FirmBee / Pixabay One of the most enduring myths about leadership is the notion that leaders are born rather than made. This kind of thinking tends to mistake certain personality traits for essential leadership qualities and falls into the trap of believing that … Continue reading Leadership Development Made Easy Through E-Learning
Angela Hausman, PhD — May 21, 2018 Follow @MarketingLetter — May 21, 2018 Big businesses, with notable exceptions like Intel, have become risk-averse when it comes to new product development. Instead of funneling profits into future products, they seem happy to milk existing products, offering anemic improvements rather than radical new products. Where are the … Continue reading New Product Development: Foundations in Business and Design
Paul Keijzer — May 4, 2018 Follow @Paul_Keijzer — May 4, 2018 TeroVesalainen / Pixabay Classrooms, seminars, or workshops, whatever you call them, they all have one thing in common – these learning techniques are all centuries old. Yet they’re still around and are still widely and commonly used. Sure, there may have been ‘enhancements’ … Continue reading 3 Ways Gamification Can Transform Learning & Development
Contributor Dave Davies takes the guesswork out of determining what type of content will resonate with an audience by creating Excel formulas to help determine what a searcher may be looking for. Dave Davies on May 2, 2018 Google’s goal is to satisfy a searcher’s intent. When a user finds what they’re looking for … Continue reading Searcher intent: The secret ingredient behind successful content development
Rick Lepsinger — April 21, 2018 Follow @onpoint_llc — April 21, 2018 The modern workplace is vastly different from what it once was. Today, organizations of all sizes and industries face increasingly globalized markets, remotely-located employees/teams, and the need for cross-disciplinary teams. To meet the demands of customers, it is imperative to have agile leaders … Continue reading The 6 Things You Need To Make Leadership Development Effective
