Thu.Feb 20, 2025

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How to Ask Your Employer to Pay for Your Online Course

Harvard Business School Online

Continuing your education can help you grow your career or transition to a new field, but cost can be a limiting factor. The good news: Many organizations offer tuition reimbursement. Here's how to find out if your company is one of them and how to approach your manager.

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Making Silence Comfortable | Get "Heart to Heart" with Julie Johnson MCC

The Coaching Tools Company

Originally Posted on The Coaching Tools Company as Making Silence Comfortable | Get "Heart to Heart" with Julie Johnson MCC Silence is one of the most fascinatingand often overlookedaspects of communication. As coaches, weve all seen how silence can create space for deep reflection, yet it can also feel quite uncomfortable at times. Thats why we're excited to share this insightful piece from "Heart to Heart with Julie", Julie Johnson MCC, who explores how different cultures perceive sile

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How to Design a Reward System for Employees (Step-by-Step Guide)

Vantage Circle

Let’s be honest, keeping employees motivated isn’t just about free coffee and the occasional pizza party. While free snacks and casual Fridays are nice, they’re not enough to drive long-term employee engagement or loyalty. Here’s a stat that might surprise you: 85% of employees say they feel more motivated to do their best work when they’re recognized for their efforts.

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Do You Want to Argue, or Do You Want to Solve Problems?

Think Reliablility

Too often, discussions meant to solve problems turn into endless debates. The culprit? A fixation on the word "prevent." The word prevent sounds responsible and proactive, but it often leads to an all-or-nothing mindset. If a solution cant guarantee total prevention, people dismiss it outrightstalling progress instead of making meaningful improvements.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act

Speaker: Speakers:

On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.

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7 Common One-Page Business Plan Mistakes to Avoid

Upmetrics

Ready to craft your own one-page business plan? Make sure you avoid making these 7 critical mistakes and get the most from your plan. Also, explore how to create a polished plan that wins investors.

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Presentation to the ILO Africa Skills Hub

Adventures in Career Development

Today I had the opportunity to present with Dr Pedro Moreno da Fonseca of the International Labour Organisation to the ILO’s Africa Skills Hub. We discussed the value of thinking about career, career development and career guidance to the achievement of a range of policy aims for African countries. We presented the career development framework that we developed for the ILO last year and talked about the range of ways that it could be used in policy and practice.