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  • April 17, 2019

    Learning Is Worth The Investment, And The Numbers Back It Up

    As a society, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars measuring the return on our financial assets Yet, at the same time, we still haven’t found convincing ways of measuring the return on our investments in developing people And I get it: If my bank account pays me 1% a year, I can measure it to the penny...

  • December 27, 2018

    Five Ways Workplaces Will Change For The Better In 2019

    We’re probably all feeling the tension between the changes affecting our work lives right now and the ones still on the horizon but likely coming soon We’re already seeing some of these trends gain steam, while others are just materializing and have yet to fully form Without further ado, I’ll throw my hat...

  • November 14, 2018

    Make The Coffee: Small Gestures Go A Long Way At Work

    Small gestures—like holding the elevator door, saying good morning as you pass another in the hall, congratulating a coworker on his or her promotion—make a big difference So much of our career success depends on building positive, productive relationships with colleagues The foundation for such...

  • August 17, 2018

    Updating Your Résumé Might Mean Updating Yourself

    It seems like a total no-brainer: you should update your résumé and online profiles when you are job hunting But there’s more to consider besides just adding your latest position and maybe dropping old or irrelevant ones Your résumé can do more heavy-lifting if you use it to showcase your skill set and...

  • May 16, 2018

    Time For A New Employer-Employee Contract

    Now that Congress has passed tax reform legislation, companies are enjoying a lower tax rate and hanging on to more of their profits There’s a strong case to be made that this is the time to reverse the decline in worker investment, specifically when it comes to upskilling and reskilling The pace of today’s...

  • November 7, 2016

    What HR Can Learn from the Chicago Cubs’ World Series Title

    We hosted our Udemy for Business People Innovators event in Chicago last Wednesday, and it was exciting to bring together top People executives to share how HR is evolving in their organizations I can’t help but think the fact that the Cubs won their first World Series title in 108 years on the same night we...

  • August 23, 2016

    How to Hire & Train Marketing All-Stars

    How inbound recruiting and consumerized learning can turn good marketers into marketing all-stars Finding and training well-rounded marketing candidates is a challenge for organizations of all sizes Like other disciplines, marketing is a key business function that’s changing rapidly, thanks to big data,...