Competencies are basic skills employees need to perform their job duties and tasks. All are broad areas that can be improved through training, job experience and development. Training and development ...

Performance evaluation has several components: orientation, training and development, feedback and annual appraisal. Managers involved in the performance evaluation process assume responsibility for ...

The role of managers in the American workplace has shifted dramatically. Gone are the days that managers watch over employees, assessing their every move and correcting every mistake. Today’s manager ...

Jen Patterson, owner of Patterson Consulting Group, is known for her ability to inspire leaders to take a people-first leadership approach. Training and development play a critical role in every ...

Training and development is often seen as a quick fix to close gaps between expected and actual performance. Used this way, training is a cost to the organization. But with a proper approach, employee ...

In the complex higher education landscape, somewhere between the department head and the dean is the crucial midlevel leader: the associate dean. Such midlevel leaders manage a myriad of ...