The Eco Dess Project Has Studied One Highway’s Impact on Health in Ecuador; Now It’s Tackling Zika and Dengue.
The remote workforce is growing.
Numbers from Gallup show that 43 percent of employees work remotely at least some of the time, and according to Globalworkplaceanalytics.com, the number of employees who work remotely has grown by 140 percent since 2005, nearly 10 times the rate of the rest of the workforce. That number does not include freelance and contract workers, who are sometimes treated as team members and often don’t work in the office.
While remote workers are a welcome addition to a …
Gamification in training has aged well.
In the few years gamified e-learning has been around, it has grown from a buzzword into a mainstay of online training.
The fact that it’s been around for a few years hasn’t dampened the corporate training market’s enthusiasm for adding points, badges, and leaderboards to learning. If anything, L&D leaders are more interested in gamifying training. A new report from Technavio projects the global gamified training market will grow at a rate of 9.99 percen…
The robots are here, but are we ready to work with them? There are a lot of barriers to AI adoption in the workplace. Here are some ways we can welcome (and work well with) our new AI overlords.
You’re right in the middle of a big project at work, something you need to get done today, but — oh no — you can feel yourself getting hungry. You can’t work like this. You need to eat. So what do you do: get a snack, or go out for a long lunch with co-workers?
Of course you get the snack. If you went out for the long lunch, your project wouldn’t get done. Also, the interruption would interfere with the flow of the work you were doing. After you return from lunch, you’d have to get back into …
If you’re a sales manager – there’s a red hot chance you’ve had this problem:
You’ve got a great team of hard-working sales reps and a pipeline full of leads…
But you’re also not hitting your sales targets.
Despite the fact that your reps are always reaching out to numerous leads, they’re not getting the results you need.
Your loyal, passionate and hard-working sales team spends a lot of time interacting with difficult customers, and they send email after email, only to be met with objection,…
By: A.J. O’Connell
It’s the kind of farming you see in science fiction: plants grown, not in a field, but in a series of tubes rising high into the air in an enclosed space. But vertical farming is very much real. And it’s happening here on Earth, masterminded by University of Arizona professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering Joel Cuello.
Cuello, director of the Global Initiative for Strategic Agriculture in Dry Land, has patented a modular farming system that will allow people to …
Back in 2011, I was offered an opportunity by the community college where I was an adjunct to design and teach the institution’s very first digital journalism course.
I’d been teaching there for a few years, advising the student newspaper, and teaching the associated class using a pre-existing syllabus. When the course was offered to me, I jumped at it. I was eager to build something new, and as a newspaper reporter who’d learned to use technology on the job at work, I wanted to develop a cou…
Do you feel like your sales team is endlessly spinning its wheels?
Your reps are always busy, and they have lots and lots of leads, but despite the fact that they’re constantly selling – somehow you’re not hitting your sales targets.
A low conversion rate and exhausted reps isn’t a great combination.
Clearly, something has gone wrong.
Part of the problem: your team may have too many leads.
While you may think having a heap of leads is a good thing, sales can be counter intuitive. Quantity is …
Recently, workplace learning expert Donald Taylor released the results of his annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey. In that survey, Taylor asked 885 people from 60 countries one single question: “What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2017?”
The top answer, beating out social learning, micro-learning, and augmented reality, was personalized and adaptive delivery of learning.
Taylor’s survey was specifically about 2017, but adaptive learning has been hot for a few years. Time wrote about the adapt…