Competencies are basic skills employees need to perform their job duties and tasks. All are broad areas that can be improved through training, job experience and development. Training and development ...

Language teacher education has become fragmented; too often, its efforts focus on ancillary areas such as applied linguistics, methodology, or language acquisition while overlooking the core-teaching ...

There is a widespread attitude among lawyers at many firms that training and development functions take too much time and are "not part of my job description." But it is important to participate in ...