-The Most Significant Wage Gaps Are Between Men and Women CEOs According to Ezra, a provider of digital coaching, women still make up a low proportion of CEOs in 2021 (6%), despite some high-profile success stories. In the UK FTSE 100, there are only six female CEOs compared to 94 men in 2021, the same number as between 2017 and 2019. In 2020, there were just 5 female chief executives, though the number has at least climbed from 3 in 2013. Surprisingly, the situation in the United States is similar. The U.S. S&P 500 shows 6% of CEOs are female, amounting to 29 out of 471. Clearly ..read more

By Carsten Heer, International Federation of Robotics Annual installations of industrial robots more than tripled within ten years (2010-2019) reaching 381 thousand units in factories around the world. The International Federation of Robotics shows top 5 trends shaping industries around the globe. “The mission to combine traditional production with ´go digital strategies´ puts robots in a pole position,” says Dr Susanne Bieller, General Secretary of the IFR. Trend 1: Robots learn new tricks: Artificial intelligence software in combination with vision and other sensing systems, allow ..read more

–The e-Learning for Kids Foundation’s Digital Lessons Can Help During This Unprecedented Health Crisis The e-Learning for Kids Foundation (EFK, (https://www.e-learningforkids.org/), a non-profit organization launched in the USA in 2004 and in the Netherlands in 2007, provides free, highly engaging and game-based quality curriculums to children ages 5-12 around the world. This includes the entire primary International Baccaleaurte (IB) Kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculums of Mathworld and Scienceworld, respectively consisting of 336 and 221 eLessons, where children learn Math and Science in the ..read more

Agilent Technologies wins the 2020 Learning! 100 Award for learning culture. At Agilent Technologies, we create instruments that power some of the world’s most cutting-edge research. Governments use our tools to keep food and water supplies safe, while medical scientists use our instruments to fight cancer with more precise diagnoses and targeted treatments. Because we live in a digital era where things change quickly, we know the manufacturing tools of the past are no longer those that will propel us into the future. Instead we need every employee to be a strong digital thinker who helps us d ..read more

The 2020 Learning! 100 Award for Excellence in Collaboration is awarded to Watco Companies. Watco Companies, LLC has been a learning company since the first day of operation and has continued to learn and grow over the last 36.5 years. The founder had little experience in operating locomotives and providing industrial switching solutions, and the first eight team members who joined Watco had some experience, but nobody knew it all. However, they knew they wanted Watco to be built on Customer Service and had to entrust team members to learn and develop every day to serve the needs of their cust ..read more

-Elearning for Kids Offers 213 Courses Online for Free. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education of over 90% of the world’s children and students. It has exacerbated already existing inequalities and magnified the global learning crisis. The future of an entire generation is at risk. (The Education Commission, 2020). But while education is clearly a victim ofthe pandemic, it is also the solution to the longer-term recovery. In response, The e-Learning For Kids Foundation (EFK), a non-profit organization launched in the USA in 2004 and in the Netherlands in 2007, is thrilled to launch ..read more

The COVID-19 crisis has made talent management an enterprise-wide issue where it was previously focused on succession. “Organizations are having to pivot who works where, doing what and when – and traditional talent management processes and structures have proved insufficiently agile or transformational at the time they have been needed most,” cites David Perring, director of research at Fosway Research Group. Perring continues, ‘With the new world of work unfolding around us at pace, the old foundations of talent management fail to add up. It is time for organizations to rethink and move bey ..read more

USERS CHOOSE 45 SOLUTIONS AS BEST-IN-CLASS BY CATHERINE UPTON The 16th Annual Best of Elearning! Awards (BOE) honors 45 best-in-class brands across 19 categories. Learning and talent professionals from the private and public sector cast hundreds of nominations for these honorees. Thank you to the hundreds of users who nominated and voted for this year’s Best of Elearning! Eighty-five percent of professionals have personally recommended a learning solution to a colleague over the past 12 months and this awards program formalizes this personal recommendation process. Award recognition is impor ..read more

-Critical Steps for Success By Joe DiDonato The days of annual sales kick-off events hosted in exotic locations are few and far between thanks to COVID-19. Sequestered at home behind a computer screen is the last place most sales executives wish to be. But today’s new reality has evolved into virtual experiences; the Virtual Sales Kick-Off (SKO). There have been many studies conducted on the value of creating large scale events remotely. The most obvious are the savings in travel and time away from the office. Adding to those issues in this COVID-19 era, according to a survey by the Sales Mana ..read more

By Dr. Christopher Washington and Dr. Karen Miner-Romanoff The COVID-19 Pandemic was a disruptive event at such a scale as to necessitate a Great Global Lockdown, mobilizing entire nations to practice social distancing in order to slow the spread of the virus. The shutdown forced a rethinking of nearly every learning and workplace ecosystem on the planet. According to UNICEF—134 countries implemented nationwide closures of schools and workplaces. School closures alone impacted approximately 1.725 billion learners, leading many organizations and institutions worldwide to scramble to offer e-lea ..read more