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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

Almost half (49%) said that it was difficult to ensure a return on investment (ROI). Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer. But it is possible to do better. and sixfold in India.

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Understanding the Costs and Causes of Employee Turnover

Tom Spencer

Fitz–Enz (2009) , who coined the term ‘ROI of Human Capital’, also included costs such as: Reduced productivity – the learning curve effect posits that average production costs fall in a predictable manner with total accumulated production. Oswald et al (2015) claims that happiness leads to a 12% increase in productivity.

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The Data-Driven Case for Vacation

Harvard Business

days of vacation in 2015. In 2015 the unemployment rate was 5.3% (it was 9.7% in 1982), and yet 2015 had one of the lowest averages of time off taken in the past 30 years: 16.2 (A 24-month moving average was used to eliminate short-term fluctuations in the data.) days) in 2000, but they took only 16.2 days of vacation.

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How to Get People to Subscribe to Your Newsletter

Harvard Business

Indeed, one 2015 study revealed that email marketing had an average ROI of £38 (about $50 USD) for every dollar invested. With returns like that, the question is clear: How can we build our email lists?

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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. Consider what’s happened with travel: With the explosion of internet travel sites in the 2000s, consumers took charge of their own travel, and travel agencies hemorrhaged business. Fast forward to today.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it? A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Training magazine reported that 2015 training expenditures were approximately $70 billion dollars , a 14% increase from 2014. Now in its 7th year, DAMCO’s investment in young commercial leaders has grown because the ROI of the program has been considerable, measured both in financial terms and in the growth of new business opportunity.

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