Michigan Companies Can Ignite Growth with the Michigan Going PRO Talent Fund Grant
Are you ready to supercharge your workforce development efforts? If you are, and you haven’t explored grant opportunities available in the state of Michigan, you are missing an incredible opportunity. The Michigan Going PRO Talent Fund grant program has awarded over $280,000,000 to 7,000+ companies in the last decade making this program your key to…
Leading by Example: Values at the Core of Employee Performance and Development
At SDI, we partner with organizations to drive productivity and business results by assessing, developing and optimizing the performance of their people. To be successful with our clients, we first need to lead by example and develop and cultivate the talent of our own people. We often ask ourselves the following question: How do we…
Got data? So what.
We are living in a world where we use data to drive many of our important business decisions. There is more data available to us now than we know what to do with and we are constantly looking for a way to gather and use it. The IDC estimates that businesses will have spent over…
New Year’s Resolution for 2018: Engaging Learning that Actually Aligns with Company Goals
As 2017 comes to a close, you are probably putting together your plans for learning development for the coming year. Chances are, you are balancing your organization’s aspiration for bigger and better results and feeling the need to engage with employees in a more impactful way. Something needs to change. If training content is created for…
Let’s Gamify This Training!
Our SDIx Creative Director Jim Barnes recently posted a blog about elements that make gamification so effective, which got me thinking about experiences I’ve had incorporating gamification into overall learning program strategies. In short, adding gaming elements CAN be highly effective if the proper thinking is done up front. Let me share an anecdote to help…
Why You Should Make a New Year’s Resolution for your Corporate Learning Program
As the year comes to an end, chances are you’re reflecting on what worked for your organization and what didn’t. With all of the recent industry chatter focusing on tactical things like virtual reality and microlearning, it’s easy to lose sight of what fundamentally makes for a successful corporate learning program – getting results. As you…
Create Connections to Build Engagement
Jack Welch once said, “There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow.” In my opinion, there are two reasons why Jack Welch, one of the world’s most respected and celebrated CEOs, lists employee engagement as his first…