Soft skills, data literacy, and dexterity in using and teaching the latest online learning platforms. Those are the three trends that will shape global learning and development in 2020, says The Training Industry. The 21st century has been known as the era that will demand lifelong...
The march of the workplace toward inclusivity is making leaders more sensitive about certain behavior and words that can negatively impact a colleague and/or all those around them, regardless of the intention of the one doing them. After all, nobody wants to be accused of...
Many expats are presumed to be mature enough to fend for themselves. But maturity is one thing and not having emotional support is another. And yet, not many global mobility managers, recruiters, and other HR leaders see the problem coming their way. Neglect and oversight can...
The mere mention of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation makes global mobility managers and human resource leaders anxious. They fear that these latest innovations will replace them or make them redundant. One constant argument is that their own managers and executives, who write their checks,...
“Learning should never stop --- especially not in the digital age.” That quote, or ideas similar to it, is very popular these days, at a time of disruption when the most relevant knowledge and skills of the present are threatened with obsolescence by tomorrow. But...
One man’s paradise is another’s compromised one. One can say the same thing about working abroad. ECA International, a provider of international assignment management solutions, offers location allowances to encourage professionals to take “undesirable” international assignments, undesirable being a relative word, of course. Still, global...