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The weekly source of inspiration and information for busy HR, L&D, and People Development professionals
Whether you’re tasked with rolling out new people development software, creating full training programs, or redefining the employee experience, the Bridge Blog has you covered. You’ll find informative, helpful, and enjoyable articles on topics for today’s L&D and HR teams. Happy reading!
Making the Case for Your Learning Platform in a Time of Economic Uncertainty
Want to minimize the effects of budget cuts on your LMS and overall L&D program? Let’s talk about the many returns on your learning-related investments.
How Talent Mobility Empowers Employee Development
Discover why a data-driven talent mobility strategy is key to employee development & how to empower skill & career growth that engages & retains talent.
3 Employee Engagement Ideas for Remote Workers
Wellbeing, training, and engagement surveys—they’re all factors in improving employee productivity. Discover how to retain and improve employee productivity among your remote or hybrid teams.
Next Steps With Bridge Journeys: 3 New Features That Take Your Learners Further
Discover how Bridge Journeys combines learning with performance—all thanks to an array of exciting new features!
7 Steps to External Learner Training Success
Find out how to create effective learning programs and deliver engaging training to external channel partners, customers, and contractors using an LMS.
What Are SMARTER Goals and How Do They Help Measure Employee Productivity?
Measuring employee productivity can be hard without the right metrics. Luckily, SMARTER goals can help. Here’s how they work!
How to Get Your CEO to Increase L&D Budgets
Discover how to communicate the value of learning and development in terms of business value—without reducing your people to numbers on a graph.
The Trouble With Tracking: Why Employee Accountability Processes Shouldn’t Be Invasive
Employee tracking software may look like a good way to measure productivity, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Employee productivity can’t be measured through tracking technology alone (or at all!). Read on to discover some people-first alternatives.
4 Steps to Create an Employee Development Plan
Learn how to fuel success, enable employee growth & future proof your organization with employee development plans that map out training & align goals.
Rethinking the 9 Box Talent Review
Discover how the talent review process can be made more objective, insightful, and encouraging via new approaches to talent visualization.
Productivity in a Hybrid World: Why Setting Expectations Matters
Now that hybrid working is here to stay, it’s time to make sure your people understand what’s expected of them. Read on to discover why productivity begins with clear expectations, plus three things to consider when managing remote/hybrid workers.
Bridge Named as Core Leader in the 2022 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success
Employee learning & development platform Bridge named Core Leader in the 2022 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success. Find out more.
How to Create a Successful Sales Onboarding Strategy
An effective onboarding strategy gives new sales reps the knowledge, learning & tools to be successful. Boost productivity with these best practices.
Performance Review Best Practices for People-First Organizations
Performance reviews drive organizational and employee growth when they’re built on connection, feedback, and support. Achieve success with our best practices.
6 Simple Ways to Prevent Quiet Quitting and Drive Employee Engagement
Find out what quiet quitting means for organizations and how to increase employee engagement by promoting wellbeing, flexibility, and development.
4 Ways to Create a Culture of Conversation for Your Organization
In a changing landscape for workers and managers, your organization doesn’t just need to communicate—it needs to engage in conversation. Find out how to ensure your people are being heard.
Onboarding Remote Employees: A Strategy for Success
Discover how to create meaningful onboarding experiences for remote & hybrid employees that boosts engagement, builds skills & delivers relevant training.
5 Tips and Tools To Optimize Your Compliance Training
In a landscape of constant regulatory change, employee compliance matters. Find out how to keep your people prepared, informed, and up to speed when it comes to their all-important mandatory training.