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When it comes to bringing an organization’s strategy to life, we’ve all made costly (and often the same) mistakes—mistakes that make the difference between good and great. Mistakes happen when there is confusion, skepticism, and complacency rather than engagement, efficiency, and effectiveness among employees. Here’s how to avoid making some of those mistakes.

Today, companies are using social learning to improve knowledge transfer within departments and across teams and are using a variety of tools to create a social learning environment. But lack of user participation often presents a challenge. Here are six tips to consider when choosing a platform to host a social learning system and ensure maximum user buy-in.

With a carefully designed training program, a company can evaluate the job at hand and make immediate corrections to an employee’s actions to improve skills proficiency. To be effective, training should be a well-planned systematic, holistic experience. A systematized training approach should have four steps: assessment, design, delivery, and evaluation.

As if public speaking weren’t already challenging enough, occasionally you’ll find yourself presenting to an especially tough or senior-level audience. With such audiences, your prime directive should be: Don’t Waste Time. Here are eight other tips for dealing with a tough audience.

All too often we use the same old job description, interview questions, training, supervision, etc., that we used on the previous candidate with the expectation that the next candidate will “succeed.” Why take this risk? Why not go beyond the “old” way of doing things and make some small changes to improve long-term results?

Although computer-based e-learning has been established as an efficient and cost-effective way to train a large group of employees spread across the globe, bad training can end up costing more than good training when you calculate the time, resources, and opportunity cost wasted on training that does not provide the desired ROI. Here are seven best practices, to help your organization provide high-quality technology training.

“Inclusion” is about how people experience the workplace. An inclusive leader creates an environment in which as many in the organization as possible, regardless of their “diversity profile,” are engaged. Recruiting diverse talent is hard enough. But creating inclusiveness may be even more of a challenge. One solution is to start with the group that offers the greatest “bang for the buck” and practice inclusion on that group.

Over the course of the last few years, a series of innovations have fundamentally altered the way businesses function. As technology moves from the back end to become increasingly a part of each employee’s everyday tool set, these changes have created a gap in skills that many organizations now are struggling to fill—a gap that blends the needs of IT with sales, marketing, and other departments, and may be best bridged through training rather than hiring.

No matter what topic they teach, all learning and development professionals face the same challenge: audience engagement. To transfer new knowledge and skills to training session participants, instructors must first secure and hold their audiences’ attention. Here are five tips to elevate audience engagement.

Don’t let your meetings turn into a weekly data dump. Surely, with all the new methods of communication (e-mail, company portals, etc.), you can find a way to disseminate data effectively. Instead, use your meeting time to share ideas and listen to your people. And, every meeting should have some element of training.

New PDI Ninth House researchshows that one of the most critical aspects of a senior executive’s job is the ability to build talent, yet that same research shows that a leader’s ability to do so decreases as leaders move up in an organization. Here are four main ways organizations can ensure talent development remains a priority even at top leadership levels.

While time zone problems seem clear, being aware of the differences in time and reaching compromises to reconcile those differences will help make your training more effective.