360Learning - The biggest challenges you're facing

Hey there,

This week, we’re covering 4 hot topics that often come up in our conversations with people development teams around sales, diversity, performance, and wellness.

And we brought in experts that can provide alternative solutions to these common challenges. 

I really hope you'll find them helpful. Read on to see if any of these speaks to you:

Challenge 1: producing sales training content

For many, creating sales training course content is a painful process.

You may look for third-party off-the-shelf content, in which case you’re paying a lot for generic content that will soon be out of date. Alternatively, you could spend many stressful hours creating the content yourselves. Neither option is that appealing or effective.

Fortunately, according to the Head of Sales Training at Google, there’s a third option that’s not painful or costly. 

- Google MasterSaaS: 6 Steps to Produce Your Sales Training Course

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Challenge 2: supporting women’s career growth in the workplace

If you’re in HR or L&D, your goal should be to empower everyone in your organization to succeed on their own terms.

Unfortunately, despite all the talk about gender equality in the workplace, there are still stubborn gaps in leadership and C-suite gender representation around the world. And the numbers haven't improved a whole lot in recent years.

This is a complex and frustrating puzzle, and one with a long history. Addressing the gender gap in executive representation takes effort, understanding, and above all else, the right resources and support. It also requires honest and inclusive conversations.

Learning specialist and author, Jodi Leffingwell, offers some concrete steps in our latest exclusive interview.

- How Can Your Company Support Gender Equality in the Workplace?

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Challenge 3: doing effective performance reviews

There are many benefits associated with conducting regular performance reviews. In fact, performance reviews or performance appraisals are one of the most underused and misunderstood management tools available.

This is especially true as often, neither the manager nor the employee seems motivated to have the review! But the truth is, that performance reviews are probably more important than you might think. They also don’t need to be difficult to do (especially once you’ve got the right performance review templates in place).

Our friends at HR Partner offers some very convincing reasons why you should take performance reviews seriously, plus a few free templates.

- Benefits of Performance Reviews (+ Free Performance Review Templates)

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Challenge 4: having an employee wellness program that actually works

"Technology and remote working changed the way employee wellness works. Depending on your company makeup, your employee wellness program was designed to live within large offices and top-down structures.

Simply put, Karen in HR is no longer capable of managing a more dispersed and diverse team.

Most People Teams haven’t evolved with their staff makeup – Marketing, Sales, and every other aspect of today’s tech company only interact with their respective team and most of the time on a remote basis. They are discrete departments, where “keeping the pulse” of your team is not possible."

LEON is offering a new way of looking at this increasingly hot topic of employee wellness. They've coined a new term: wellness intelligence.

- Save the employee. Save the world.


And that's it for this week!

Take care and you'll hear from me soon 💛,

Joei

P.S. If you have any questions or feedback, hit reply – I read every email and will get back to you personally.

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