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Onboarding should not be about how much information you can cram into someone’s head as quickly as possible. Instead, the goal should be to give employees what they need to do the job. Get a deep dive into how to measure the real impact of an onboarding programme.

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The real impact of a well-designed onboarding programme

Getting the onboarding process right is more important than ever before given all that has happened recently. It starts with a shift in how we think about onboarding.

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Is onboarding broken?

Jordan Cohen, a Business Analyst with the Capability Group, played for the Black Sticks men’s hockey team at the recent Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Here’s his reflections on an incredible experience.

The highs and lows of international hockey

Recently Drew McGuire from Capability Group hosted a webinar to discuss existing and new approaches to onboarding in a hybrid world. It was a fascinating conversation packed with insights and practical tips to improve your organisation’s onboarding process

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Onboarding in a hybrid world

I’ve dreamed of playing for New Zealand ever since I was little. I didn’t really care what sport it was. I just wanted to make it to the top.

From Business Analyst to the Black Sticks

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Don't Poke The Bear: 8 Tips For Dealing With Difficult Customers

Singapore organisations have a fight on their hands to attract and hold on to the region’s best and brightest.

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Winning the war for talent | Singapore

Even before Covid-19, Australian companies were concerned about their ability to retain and replace key staff. Since the start of the pandemic, the ‘war for talent’ has escalated with huge demand for skilled workers in certain sectors and a shortage of suitably qualified candidates.

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Winning the war for talent | Australia

"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it," is a quote attributed to Peter Drucker, the man who invented modern business management. For far too long, measuring the impact of learning has been an exception to this rule.

How to measure the impact of learning and development

The starting point with any L&D programme is to correctly diagnose and understand the pain points in your business you want to positively impact. That allows you to design a learner journey to address those particular challenges.

How to design learning experiences that have a positive business impact

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The technology providing a window into L&D impact

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New demands on L&D put data in the spotlight

As the pandemic disruption of the workforce slowly evolves around the world it has become clear that the hybrid model is here to stay.

A human-centred approach to leadership for a hybrid model of working

The next 3 years: A snapshot of challenges

As much of Australia and New Zealand is in the midst of further lockdowns we find ourselves again forced into a remote working environment. One that we are more familiar with and more equipped for than in our first experience in March 2020.

The biggest remote working experiment 2.0

A 2021 US future workforce survey of more than 200 HR leaders(conducted by Lyra Health, Boston University and Future Workplace) identifies the following top 5 strategic priorities for 2021.

The changing pandemic-induced priority shifts for leaders

The learning landscape has changed drastically. The implementation of new technologies and ideologies surrounding learning has swept through corporates and academia alike, with the demand for more accessible (and useful) learning experiences surpassing the ability to provide them for many.

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The changing landscape of learning

A training platform based on the latest science on what constitutes effective learning is set to help boost both the skills and confidence of management and key workers in the aged care sectors in Australia and New Zealand.

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Learning technology provider uses neuroscience to boost training

Aged care operators face a number of challenges amid rising demand for their services in the next decade. The providers that will lead during this time of substantial change will be those who can attract employees, train them on the job and retain workers long-term by offering clear paths to career development and job security.

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Aged care training and development in the spotlight as sector overhauls

Join our #ReimagineLearningImpact series from June 2nd to answer this question and many more. The series will support you to harness the power of technology and data to make better decisions in designing and developing learning experiences for your entire organisation. Global thought leaders will provide you with tips, tactics and stories that you will be able to incorporate into your learning strategies for the remainder of 2021 and beyond. We are looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Reimagine Learning Impact

The challenge for frontline employees starting a new role is significant as they are expected to quickly be able to perform in customer-facing roles. According to Aberdeen Group, new employees are 69% more likely to stay longer than three years if they experience well-structured onboarding.

How Lowe’s starts employees off right with frontline-first onboarding

The pandemic has accelerated digital disruption in the retail banking industry to a level not previously seen. Here are 4 key takeaways from Axonify’s recent Axonicom Fireside Webinar.

Rhiannon Nakhle

4 key takeaways from the AxoniCom Fireside Webinar

Why Immersive VR is so effective for soft skills development and the positive impact psychological safety has on a teams’ performance, engagement and innovation.

Connecting teams through VR

Eighty percent of the global workforce is on the front line. Disruption may have changed the way they do their jobs, but they remain the ultimate driver of business success, and we should invest in their development.

To overcome business disruption, take a front-line-first approach

As New Zealand enters the second round of restrictions, many of us will also be cycling through familiar feelings of anxiety, and stress.

Resilient leadership

We can easily get focused on trying to be productive with the practical tasks we face, like managing cash flow, retaining and winning customers, innovating and pivoting. However, we often forget to allow focus on the 3 most critical things that can support this productivity.

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Prioritise mental wellbeing for you and your team

We hope you were able to make use of our free Lockdown Field Guide animation series over the past 6 weeks, either individually, amongst your friends and family, or across your organisations. We have received incredible feedback and each animation has received 1000’s of views so we hope they played a small positive role in maintaining wellbeing throughout lockdown.

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New normal animations

Capability Group is further bolstering its commitment to innovation in the digital and learning technology space with the appointment of Simon Carter, our new Product Design Manager - Digital Learning & VR.

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Introducing Simon Carter

In March the world is celebrating International Women’s Day and this has generated a bit of buzz in the office here at Capability Group.

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#ChooseToLead

Capability Group’s team in Singapore continues to grow as we expand our offering across the SEA region. We are hugely excited to introduce you to the latest member of our Singapore team, Belinda Ng, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development (SEA).

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Introducing Belinda Ng

Capability Group has established a Singapore-based Advisory Board to support its expansion across the SEA region. Following a robust recruitment process with support from NZTE and Board Dynamics we are really excited to announce the following two appointments.

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Capability Group Advisory Board

More than Netflix

Leading high impact teams

March 25, 2020 brought about a sudden and sobering reality for the team at Briscoe Group Limited. Like many companies around the world, they were required to close their 85 homeware and sporting goods stores across New Zealand as the nation entered a level four lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cool, calm & connected

Recently we partnered with a significant Australian retailer to help transition their frontline staff from face to face learning to learning online. This blog looks at how we were able to solve their learning challenge by successfully utilising Capability Group’s learning design principles to provide effective blended learning solutions.

Blended learning for digital transformation

In the 21st century, we are presented with a landscape that is interconnected and global. Any organisation now has the ability to be available any time, any place, to anyone. The advent of this interconnected, global marketplace provides an incredible opportunity to those companies willing to move with the times, and part of this is the ability to appreciate the importance of diversity as well as inclusion in the workplace.

Why are diversity and inclusion important?

One thing that people often complain about in the workplace is boring meetings. If you were to ask people to rank what frustrates them most about work, I predict that poorly run meetings would rank somewhere near the top.

Running Effective Meetings

Keeping your team motivated through tough times can be challenging, and with the pace of work only increasing and disruption & change becoming the norm, the task of keeping our people motivated and engaged in the workplace can seem daunting.

Management – Motivating Teams

In our VUCA world building a more diverse and inclusive workforce is a strategic imperative of most organisations across the APAC region.

Growing diversity and inclusion

The Growing Pasifika Niu Leaders programme is a programme specifically designed for Pasifika employees who have demonstrated leadership capability and potential but not necessarily in the traditional workplace sense.

Use of poetry in leadership development

Capability Group is delighted to announce a partnership with workforce upskilling platform Degreed.

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Introducing Degreed to New Zealand

In 2019, almost all of us have had experience working in a virtual team – a 2018 global study of executives from major organisations found that 89% of respondents work on a virtual team, and 27% are on at least four virtual teams.

Nicola Blockley

The importance of building trust in virtual teams

I recently re-read an awesome book called First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Kurt Coffman.

Management & leadership

We’ve been having lots of conversations here at Capability Group about who we are, why we do what we do and the impact we want to have. As a result of these conversations, we made an interesting observation. Our solutions not only transform individuals, teams, and organisational performance, they also generate a ripple effect, causing the connections and capabilities developed by individuals on our programmes or using our solutions to flow through into their families and communities.

The ripple effect

New year, new chapter

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