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Start the New Year 2021 with Clear Goals and Expectations
Marketing

Start the New Year 2021 with Clear Goals and Expectations

The most successful individuals, teams, and organizations create a plan that gives direction, which sets a focus for the entire organization. To keep the course, those expectations and goals are revisited throughout the year on a systematic and regular basis.

Joining the Team and Designing Talbit 1.0 - Throwback to Early 2019
Marketing

Joining the Team and Designing Talbit 1.0 - Throwback to Early 2019

No design is ever set in stone — it is always changing and evolving according to users' needs and the possibilities of technology.

A Handy Framework for Improving Workplaces: the Job Demands-Resources Model
Marketing

A Handy Framework for Improving Workplaces: the Job Demands-Resources Model

The Job Demands-Resources (JDR) model has gained a lot of popularity in Organizational Psychology since it was developed. It aims to very practically explain how job satisfaction and other positive factors in the work environment could be improved, and how companies can tackle negative phenomena such as job-related stress.

Tackling wasted training efforts with “Lean Learning”
Marketing

Tackling wasted training efforts with “Lean Learning”

With the constant changes we see in technology, jobs and economy, training is obviously crucial for the success of any company. If you’re not leveraging the best tech and jumping on the new trends, you’ll be left behind. However, are we really getting the benefits out of our L&D investments?

Talbit September Update
Company News

Talbit September Update

As some of you might have noticed already, Talbit got an update recently. Here's a summary of what's new!

Employee training: what’s in it for management?

Employee training: what’s in it for management?

Training initiatives are sometimes very costly, so why bother? What are the benefits? It is difficult to justify spending a lot of money on something if we don’t know why. Let’s dig into a couple of main research findings on the topic. Why should employers offer training for their employees?

Talbit update — Release notes August 2020

Talbit update — Release notes August 2020

Hello to all our wonderful Talbiters! Hope you had a great and refreshing summer and some time to relax as well.

People of Talbit: Max Korpinen, Head of Business Operations
New Staff

People of Talbit: Max Korpinen, Head of Business Operations

Next in the People of Talbit series, where we introduce our team members, is Max, who recently joined as the Head of Business Operations.

People of Talbit: Aleksi Meldo, Founder & Head of Product and Marketing
New Staff

People of Talbit: Aleksi Meldo, Founder & Head of Product and Marketing

Next up in the People of Talbit blog series where we introduce our team members, is Aleksi, our Head of Product and Marketing.

People of Talbit: Kaisa Savola, CEO and Founder
New Staff

People of Talbit: Kaisa Savola, CEO and Founder

We’ve wanted to start a blog series where we introduce our team in a little bit more detail. So let’s do it! Now, in the coming weeks, you’ll get to know who are the people behind the Talbit product, and hopefully learn more about us. Let’s start with Kaisa Savola, our CEO and Founder!

Goal-setting: why “do your best” is bad advice

Goal-setting: why “do your best” is bad advice

Goal-setting is something we rarely consciously think about. Goals can easily be ineffective, and when they are, they are close to worthless. But when we set goals with a couple of helpful guidelines in mind, they increase our performance considerably. How, then, should we formalize the goals we want to achieve?

Talbit Path Library released — Release notes July 2020 💎

Talbit Path Library released — Release notes July 2020 💎

Hot summer of 2020 continues and we are excited to announce the release of the latest Talbit update, which includes a big new feature — the Path Library.

Talbit update - early June 2020 🚀☀️

Talbit update - early June 2020 🚀☀️

We’ve been busy at Talbit working on a number of updates and features during. We are happy to announce the first big integration with Talbit — the Talbit Slack Bot.

Importance of social hubs in remote working

Importance of social hubs in remote working

In 2020 traditional collaboration with email and instant messaging -tools is not enough anymore.

Business Development = Employee Development

Business Development = Employee Development

To succeed in your Business Development Goals, involve and develop your employees systematically. Do you have an active Business Development department? If yes, what does it do? Who is part of it? How many people are involved? A small party who gets to do all the fun?

Building better communality inside organisations during the COVID-19 -pandemic

Building better communality inside organisations during the COVID-19 -pandemic

As I’m writing this, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown continues in many countries around the world and most of us knowledge workers now have to spend our days quarantined inside our houses. The pandemic has very much affected our working life and made remote work a must for many organizations.

Why invest in employee development right now?

Why invest in employee development right now?

With the global COVID19 -pandemic affecting the economy, every company is now focused on saving and cutting costs. We believe this time is very important to also make investments if possible. These investments should focus on the most important part of your company — your employees.

Why OKR framework for Talbit?

Why OKR framework for Talbit?

Why OKR? Why did you choose it as the framework for Talbit? Questions I get asked frequently. That’s why I decided to blog about it.Concrete. Transparent. Understanding on colleagues’ skills and work. The link between me and company strategy. Elements that I intuitively thought would need to be part of Talbit — the tool to help you grow your talent bit by bit.

Time for learning and reflection.

Time for learning and reflection.

These are completely new and unusually strange times for all of us around the entire world. The global Corona-virus pandemic has closed down entire countries and forced many of us to work from home in order to avoid the spread of the disease.

Employee driven development -process

Employee driven development -process

As I still run into cases and companies that follow the traditional/annual personal development review -process, I decided to blog about one of my favorite topics: The employee driven development -process.For companies looking to start a transformation, this is your read.

Time to kill the annual performance review -process

Time to kill the annual performance review -process

“Annual performance reviews are costly and exhausting, swallowing on average 7.5hrs of manager’s time for each direct report. Only 6% of HR leaders think it’s worth the time it takes.”

Less is More — in personal growth and development planning as well.

Less is More — in personal growth and development planning as well.

Type type type type type type type….” until your fingers are numb — a comment from a Team leader prepping for his yearly performance appraisal -discussions and filling in the performance documents for each and every subordinate in his team. There were 10 of them.How many of those 10 were able to put all the typed text into full use and utilize it to its max when reaching set targets and altering behaviours to support growth and creating customer value?

Strategy is a part of talent development

Strategy is a part of talent development

“You talk about talent development and strategy in the same sentence; what does strategy have to do with it?” -is a question I get asked quite often. It has a lot to do with talent development.

What is this OKR-thing everyone’s buzzing about? And what about G&T?

What is this OKR-thing everyone’s buzzing about? And what about G&T?

You may have heard about the OKR-framework and that all the most successful companies in the world, like Google, Amazon, Twitter and Uber use it. But what does it actually mean? And how can you use the OKR-model in the development of your company talent?

What do Millennials and Gen Z expect from modern work life and companies?

What do Millennials and Gen Z expect from modern work life and companies?

Today, Millennials and Gen Z make up more than half the world’s population and together they account for most of the global workforce. These generations are very focused on finding meaning with the work they do and how it contributes to their personal development.

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