The increasing war for talent, skills gaps, ever-evolving employee expectations, and an increasingly competitive business landscape, has caused employers to rethink other mechanisms to retain their top talent. There is the need for a mindset shift on engagement to include…
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Understanding the Relationship Between Student Engagement & Instructional Strategies within an English Business College for Non-Native English Speakers. By GIFTY PARKER
Student engagement for adults is an increasingly important focus of study, for instructors, administrators, and adult learning institutions more broadly. Leach (2016) opined student engagement to be “important to further and higher education institutions: it is understood to be a proxy for quality teaching and governments attach a proportion of funding to student retention and completion” (p. 24). An adult learning academy like GBC, where I teach as a business instructor for foreign students, is seeking diverse ways of ensuring adult students are engaged in the classrooms, from selecting the right instructional tools, confirming expertise of teaching, and also fostering the emotional well-being of both teachers and students
What best defines the HR mindset for you?
The HR mindset for me is one that encompasses change and promotes growth. From the introduction of HR, the demands and requirement of businesses have changed and will continue to change, subsequently evolving a fast need for new ideas and thinking.
As HR professionals, this means more focus on adding worth to the profession, from the entry-level practitioners to senior executives, as we each in our own unique way, reinvent HR—beginning with a change in thinking.
We need a shift from a fixed mindset to one of growth—to take proactive measures to broaden our skills and perspectives, while creating learning opportunities and institutions that can promote a learning culture. Lastly, HR professionals should embrace every opportunity to bring about transformation in their way of thinking, and provide a more meaningful and continuous contribution to HR. GIFTY PARKER
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Corporate Training Programs
Corporate Training Programs are useful tool for managers, senior management teams, their subordinates, and covers a wide range of topics. We are there with our clients from setting Training Needs Assessment. To designing a toolkit (presentations, seminars, workshops, regular assessment, exams, and so on), to delivery and evaluating training programs (Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses).Read more...
Connecting Mindfulness with Emotional Intelligence in Adult Population. By GIFTY PARKER
Identifies and explores some of the emerging research topics that assist in connecting Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Mindfulness in the adult population. In so doing, I will map the connection between EQ and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in the field of education. The identified research articles will provide evidence on the role of EQ and mindfulness promised in managing workplace demands… Read more Read more