Author: Training Industry Articles

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. With the cost of cybercrime projected to hit $2 trillion in fewer than three years, it’s easy to see why an entire month could be dedicated to the topic. Training professionals are the key to increasing vital skills in an organization, and cybersecurity skills are no exception.

For training organizations, e-learning tools have made it affordable to offer extra training and perks to employees that were formerly cost prohibitive. It’s no surprise that today’s employees are more capable and well-trained than ever before.

Designing game-based training programs can be difficult. It’s easy to fixate on your training objectives and forget to make your training fun. You can also spend too much time making the program enjoyable and end up with a game that doesn’t really teach anything.

Why isn’t management showing up better?

Studies show that most first-time managers are hired or promoted out of necessity – generally because they were strong individual contributors and not necessarily for any demonstrated management prowess. Because of this, many managers know only to be followers and are still dependent on someone else’s setting a direction. They are drones, in other words, with a pilot sitting in an office somewhere else in the organization.

When engaged employees care about their work and their company, they want to do the right things on the job. And when they want to do the right things and give their all, their engagement translates into huge benefits for the company.