Gina Abudi

Ensuring Behavior Change Occurs From Your Training Programs

Gina — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:30:54 +0000

Consistently clients tell me that one of the major disappointments from training programs their employees attend is that the employees come back to the job and do not apply what they have learned in the classroom. There are many reasons this might occur, including, for example:

The training program did not provide the opportunity to apply [...]

Quick Tips to Get a New Hire Acclimated and Comfortable in Their New Role

Gina — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:30:58 +0000

It’s essential to ensure that new hires can begin to feel productive and part of the company as quickly as possible. In this way, you can ensure that new hires are effective within the organization. Additionally, new hires who feel a part of the company from day one are happier, more productive employees overall. The [...]

Pre-Employment Screening Part II

Sandy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:30:55 +0000

Part I of this post discussed some of the reasons why an organization would conduct pre-screening of potential employee candidates and talked about the pros and cons of conducting the screen using in-house resources or outsourcing to a specialist. This post will continue discussion around hiring the best Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) to help you [...]

Pre-Employment Screening Part I

Sandy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:30:55 +0000

Employers are acutely aware that hiring an applicant with an undesirable background, criminal and/or civil record, or falsified credentials can carry enormous economic and legal consequences. Pre-employment screening has proven to be a cost effective way to protect the business, the owners, and employees from the disaster a “bad hire” can bring. That said, employers [...]

14 Things a Leader Must Do

Gina — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:30:56 +0000

Below are 14 things that some of the most effective leaders in organizations do today to help their organization be successful. These are not focused on managing the company’s finances, preparing for Board meetings, or planning strategy; but rather, in addition to those certainly important items (along with many [...]

Do You Work for One of Those Nice Organizations That Avoids Conflict?

Jamie — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:30:12 +0000

One of the excuses we commonly hear as a reason for not actively engaging in dialogue with employees regarding their performance is “We’re really nice at XYZ organization” or “We avoid conflict and causing people to feel badly about themselves.” Translation, “We have people who are underperforming, but we’d rather not [...]

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching Adults to Learn Effectively

Gina — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:30:43 +0000

Incorporating principles of adult learning theory in any training program is the foundation to ensuring a successful transfer of skills from the training program back to the workplace. Adult education focuses on the facilitator ensuring the participants are able to achieve sustained behavioral changes to improve in a particular area(s). For example, enabling adult participants [...]

Interview with Josefina Bonilla

Gina — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:30:30 +0000

Today we are interviewing Josefina Bonilla. Josefina is a close friend, an amazing woman, and a very successful entrepreneur! She is the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Color Magazine.

Meet Josefina!

Josefina Bonilla is the Managing Director of Color Media Group, LLC and Publisher of its flagship publication, Color Magazine. She is responsible for creating business partnerships and developing opportunities [...]

Conducting Effective Needs Assessments: Conduct a Competency-Based Assessment Part II

Gina — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:30:29 +0000

Part I of this post looked at data gathering prior to conducting needs assessments. This post will discuss conducting a competency-based assessment. You would use the data from the data gathering session(s) to develop a competency model to assess against.

To begin, let’s define a competency model. In The Art and Science of Competency Models (page [...]

Conducting Effective Needs Assessments: Data Gathering Part I

Gina — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:30:07 +0000

First, let’s define a “needs assessment.” According to Wikipedia, a “needs assessment is a process for determining and addressing needs, or “gaps” between current conditions and desired conditions, often used for improvement projects in education/training.”

A needs assessment should address the following:

Knowledge: What an individual needs to know in order to do his/her job. Skills: What [...]