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Corporate Managers Seek Improvement
According to a 2009 McKinsey Survey, nearly 70 percent of senior executives are only “somewhat satisfied” or “not at all satisfied” with the performance of their companies’ frontline managers. “More worrisome still,” the report contends, “the vast majority of frontline managers (81 percent) say they are not satisfied with their own performance.”
One of the main reasons for the lack of satisfaction is that companies’ training programs are not designed to help frontline managers, despite the potential impact their jobs can have. Only 10 percent of respondents say their companies’ frontline manager training is effective in preparing managers to lead. At this minority of companies, training emphasizes leadership and interpersonal skills.
While frontline employees are provided with extensive training, managers are not — even though for many, their present jobs may represent their first experiences leading others.
The McKinsey survey offers the theory that “perhaps frontline managers receive less training because of the way their jobs are designed at most companies: managers are expected to ensure that their direct reports do the things that the managers themselves excelled at to begin with.”
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Learning! 100 Awards Launched to Honor Best in Class Learning Organizations Elearning! Media Group and Aberdeen Group Partner to Create Learning! 100 Award Program
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E-learning Goes Everywhere Enterprise Learning's New Frontiers: Mobile Learning, Virtual Worlds, 3-D Simulations, Serious Games »
Collaboration and Social Networking in Today’s Enterprises A Research Study Of The Enterprise Learning Audience »
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Latest News
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Seeking New Learning Realities Most companies have instructional systems design (ISD) programs that are, at best, moderately... »
Deals
Taleo to Acquire Learn.com Taleo, a leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, announced it has signed a... »
Training 80,000 People Managing the logistics to train more than 80,000 members of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees... »
Healthfirst Joins Users Healthfirst, a fast-growing health plan with more than 480,000 members based in New York City, has... »
People on the Move
HCI's New Advisory Board Members HCI’s new Advisory Board members are: DR. PETER CAPPELLI, The Wharton School; ROB CROSS, University... »
Saba appoints Lundy VP and Russel to Board of Directors Saba has appointed Jim Lundy to the newly created position of vice president andgeneral manager of... »
Kaplan EduNeering Promotes Risko and Schemick Kaplan EduNeering promoted Allison Risko senior vice president, ProfessionalServices. Andy Schemick... »
Resources
What Return on Investment Does E-learning Provide? Organizations make investments in e-learning solutions with the expectation that the solutions will... »
Training's Role in Talent Full article text and slides for article featured in February '09 edition of Elearning!... »
Case Studies
Creating a Corporate University for Employees and Customers The Numbers Are Staggering: 30,000 Man-Hours of Instruction, 9,000 Course Completions.
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Creating a Large E-learning Curriculum Located in Carrollton, Texas, RealPage is a leader and pioneer in multi-family property management... »
E-Learning Inside and Out Orbitz Worldwide is a forerunner in using e-learning to impact two audiences that can help grow its... »
New Products
Open-Source Project for Enterprise Social Networking WEB 2.0: Lockheed Martin is now offering the Eureka Streams open-source project for enterprise... »
TOOLS: Faster and Simpler New Adobe eLearning Suite 2 software contains the latest tools, enhanced extensions, bigger... »
TOOLS: Help? Compliance Genie KMC On Demand’s Compliance Genie is a simple and effective tool to help insurers and claim... »
Voices
Enlisting the Unconscious Mind Four Ways To Make Sure A Learner's Whole Brain Fully Embraces The Learning Process
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Ahead of the Curve? New Research From San Diego State Shows That Social Networking As An E-Learning Tool Has A Way To Go »
Trendlines
Change in Recruiting Program Spending, by Method, 2010 Percentage of U.S. Human Resources and Recruiting Professionals »
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Training Trends Web Conferencing 2010: North America Its Importance Goes Beyond Reducing Travel Budgets, Survey Says »
Tips
How to Deliver Rich Media Access to All Employees Video on demand (VoD) is on a tear. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Forecast (2009-2014),... »
Mobile Learning: Learning in an Always-Connected World People are more connected than ever, communicating and receiving information increasingly in... »
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