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August 7, 2019How Investing In Yourself Today Will Set You Up For Career Success Tomorrow
There’s plenty of talk these days about how critical it is for workers to continuously maintain and update their skills for career success. Byline by Udemy President Darren Shimkus. Read the full article here.
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July 31, 2019Udemy Survey: 84 Percent of Millennials Are Working Their Dream Job
New survey data from online learning platform Udemy shows 84 percent of millennials say they have their dream job. Cara Brennan Allamano, SVP of human resources at Udemy, breaks down the results. Broadcast interview linked. Read the full article here.
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July 23, 2019
5 Key Learning Management System (LMS) Trends in 2019
With the growth of learning organizations, the rising demand for experience-focused, employee-centric processes and the mounting need for intelligent employer branding, it is only natural that the Learning Management System (LMS) as we know it is changing. In a world that is hyper-connected and trend-sensitive, what are the trends that will affect the LMS space […]
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July 16, 2019
How training bolsters relationships and builds EQ
Employers have long seen the need for training employees in hard skills. In recent years, soft skills like leadership and communication have crept into learning and development initiatives, too. Some employers have looked to L&D to increase employees’ emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ) — a trend that can give staff members a better sense […]
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June 25, 2019
What Everyone Should Know About Managing Gen Z
Carrie Viohl, the co-owner of The Square, a restaurant in Moultrie, Georgia, manages a team of Gen Zers (those born between 1997 and 2012, the oldest of whom are just entering the workforce). But she wasn’t optimistic about hiring them at first. “Restaurant life is hard. It’s demanding work. We went through hundreds of employees […]
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A clear winner in Slack’s war against email? There isn’t one
Slack dubbed email the cockroach of the internet because it’s impossible to kill. Still, the company is aiming to squash it. The collaboration software company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange last week, closing Monday with an $18 billion market cap. Ahead of the direct listing, CEO Stewart Butterfield told CNBC when […]
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June 11, 2019
Top 5 things to keep employees happy
Foosball and free drinks used to be the conventional wisdom for keeping employees happy, but the fact is, employees are not all that shallow—you need to provide some happiness for the soul as well. A truly happy employee is more productive, and being surrounded by happy employees makes you more productive, too. Here are five […]
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June 5, 2019
Feedback isn’t the problem, but the way that we deliver it is broken
The March/April issue of Harvard Business Review featured an article titled “The Feedback Fallacy” on its cover. In it, the co-authors contend that feedback in the workplace is essentially useless, even potentially damaging, because it’s based on flawed assumptions, hidden biases, and unrecognized ignorance. As a learning & development professional and the creator and teacher […]
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May 31, 2019
84% of Millennials believe they’re currently working their dream job
Over a third (37%) of employees ranked “good work-life balance” as most important to giving work meaning according to an online-course destination Udemy released in their 2019 Workplace Happiness Report. The results of the report, a survey of 1,000 U.S. office workers, were broken down by generation, and, as usual, Millennials stood out. Only 25% […]
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May 16, 2019
Work-life balance beats out mission as source of meaningful work
More than one third of 1,000 U.S. workers ranked work-life balance as the biggest contributor to finding meaning in their work, a report from online learning platform Udemy found. “Contributing to the greater good” trailed other factors in the report, accounting for only 14% of respondents. Although balance mattered most, mission also mattered to respondents: […]
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May 15, 2019
Udemy Identifies the Drivers of Employee Happiness in its First Workplace Happiness Report
Udemy released the company’s “2019 Workplace Happiness Report,” which found that feeling fulfilled at work is about achieving work-life balance and having a better quality of life. “The social contract between employer and employee has been upended, and the smartest companies have moved from a hierarchical, transactional relationship with employees to a collaborative partnership of […]
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May 14, 2019
3 things employees need to be happy at work
To feel fulfilled at work, employees must prioritize a healthy work-life balance and good quality of life, according to an Udemy report released on Tuesday. The report determined the factors that matter most to employees when trying to find happiness in their jobs. The report, conducted by Toluna Group on behalf of Udemy, surveyed more […]
