I have to confess – I love daytime TV. Of course, since I work I have to carefully manage my TiVo to catch the best of my fave shows. This week while checking out Oprah’s new season schedule, I came across a big focus on workplace bullying.

I am thrilled to share some great news today. We have won a Top Training Product award from Human Resource Executive Magazine for Halogen eLearning Manager! As the industry’s first performance-based learning management system, Halogen eLearning Manager delivers an innovative approach to training and development, by fully integrating learning with performance appraisals and other key talent management functions.

As an organization, we are focused on delivering products that are ‘right to market’ by addressing real-life [...]

I came across this seemingly random survey last week, showing how pervasive workplace bullying is in Australia. According to the study of more than 800 employees, 25 per cent revealed they had experienced bullying. Silence, isolation, verbal insults and sarcasm were the most common cases, with public humiliation ranking in second place. Bullying from managers or supervisors represented about 50 per cent of cases, while 25 per cent of respondents reported being targeted [...]

We just wrapped up an awesome session with Kris Dunn, who you probably know from The HR Capitalist and Fistful of Talent. He joined us at the annual user conference as a keynote speaker on Social Media and HR. This session provided great insight into why HR pros should care about social media, including the top 10 reasons why they should invest time in social media tools – here’s the high level version:

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David Hofstetter from the New England Organ Bank and our own Sean Conrad just wrapped up a session on performance based learning at our annual user conference. They shared some great insights and best practices on the power of linking employee performance and learning management.

Sean discussed the theory, while David discussed what his organization has been able to achieve with performance-based learning. Both raised a number of insightful and interesting points that I wanted to [...]