Organizations are stepping up their investment in training. According to new figures from Bersin & Associates, budgets for learning development rose to $800 per learner in 2011, a 9.5 percent increase on 2010, as businesses in the United States looked to fill their skills gap. Full Article »

North Shore-LIJ Health System is the nation’s second largest non-profit secular healthcare system employing 42,000 professionals. Maura O'Brien, Director, and Rachel Rosenblum, Organizational Development Specialist, of the Center for Learning and Innovation join HRIQ to discuss their strategies for driving personal development and why this is an integral component of the Center for Learning and Innovation’s (the health system’s corporate university) success. Full Video »

How do you encourage employee development in a company where team members may not even sit in the same office space? Allison Anderson, Learning Innovation and Technology Program Manager at Intel Corporation, shares how Intel embraced learning. Full Podcast »

How we view and handle workplace diversity may not be rocket science, but it does have scientific support through the study of the human brain and neuroplasticity which impacts how we view others. Full Column »

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do," observed Henry Ford. Or, to put it another way, actions speak louder than words. In the world of enterprise, an employee’s personal legacy is the sum of their contributions, large and small, adding up to a tangible marker of value. The right social recognition program provides a platform to celebrate, share, and infuse the corporate intranet with these success stories. It delivers a record of an employee’s greatest hits to date. Why is this important? As this paper will show, encouraging personal legacy through social recognition has a powerful ripple effect, one that propels enterprise success. Full Whitepaper »