Training

Businesses in the U.S. spend in excess of $150 billion per year on employee learning, yet research indicates that 90 percent of its impact disappears within a year. Why are we all so ridiculously bad at this?

If you initially tolerate ambush communications, it can become a pattern of behavior. Unchecked, these “well-intended requests” can wear you down, change your mood and worse, affect your value of the messenger.

Employees don’t have to be corporate founders or CEOs to be innovators—by giving them independence, supporting their goals and staying open to new, risky ideas, you can unleash your employee’s inner entrepreneurs for a healthier culture and even new, profitable products or services.

Any problem your organization is aiming to solve doesn’t need to be outsourced. There may be external experts who can help you, but look to your internal talent to get your company ahead.

David Novak, founder and CEO oGoLead, founder, retired Chairman and former CEO of Yum! Brands, talked with some of the brightest and most successful CEOs he knows during his podcast to help identify the traits you need to look for in a future leader. Novak was named Chief Executive CEO of the Year in 2012.

CEOs can’t get caught up in the exhilaration of growth of their company; avoid these common pitfalls and ensure you stay on the right track.

SunTrust, an Atlanta-based financial-services giant, launched an internal platform for improving financial literacy a few years ago after Rogers learned that even bank employees experience huge stress and uncertainty about their own economic futures.

CEOs are focusing in on new creative solutions involving public-private sector partnerships and education reform initiatives to bring in the next generation of skilled talent.

Apprenticeship Carolina, a division of the SC Technical College System, is one of the fastest-growing apprenticeship programs in the U.S.

When employees are concerned about their personal problems, they're not as productive. Gas South CEO Kevin Greiner is using financial literacy classes to help eliminate the disruption.