“The recruitment of talent is more competitive than ever. Employer branding and being able to understand and connect with prospective employees requires a marketing and communications mindset as well as all of the knowledge and expertise that the talent and development side of the house brings.” This is the among the perspectives shared by Melissa Taylor, Global Learning and Development …
Episode #8: How a CLO Helped Change a Learning Culture through Smart Communications
How do you get employees excited about learning? This was a question that Abhijit Bhaduri was grappling with back in 2009 when he was the Chief Learning Officer at Wipro, the information technology services company headquartered in Bengaluru, India. This was quite a challenge, particularly given the size of Wipro (160,000 employees at the time across 54 countries). It was important for Abhijit …
Episode #1: Home Depot Director of Learning Brandon Carson on the Link between Employee Engagement and Training
Employee engagement is an issue facing most all organizations, according to a Gallup survey. What is learning and development’s role in addressing this issue? Brandon Carson, Director of Learning at Home Depot and author of Learning in the Age of Immediacy, shared his opinion about this on episode 1 of the Learning and Development Stories podcast. “We know that employees are more likely to …
Podcast Episode #58: Shel Holtz on Employee Advocacy Programs
Imagine the impact that can be generated when you have individuals who can share the brands content, respond appropriately to complaints and routinely advocate for the organization to their respective networks? On episode 58 of FIR of Higher Education, we delve into the topic of employee advocacy with Shel Holtz, an organizational communications expert and the founder of the FIR Podcast …