Listen in Order to Understand Some skills are universal in their benefits. The ability to listen in order to understand has become a lost art form for most of us, but the benefits of this simple-but-often-overlooked skill can enhance your career, your personal life, and society as a whole.
Brands Urged to Engage With Music Fans Via Social Networks New report examines the role of music in social media and how brand owners can adopt recorded and live music to reach young audiences that have stopped using traditional media.
Whole Foods Offers Employee Incentives for Healthier Living Natural and organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market is looking out for the wellbeing of its employees next year by offering them incentives to measurably improve their health.
Comic Relief To engage claims reps in learning, Farmers saw humor as the key, and turned to Second City Communications (SCC), the learning division of The Second City, to partner on developing a learning solution. The result: Customer Connection Corps (CCC), a blended learning program that produced a stronger focus on customer-centered service and sparked cultural change at Farmers.
How-To: Leverage Online Discussions Online group discussions provide your learners with just-in-time training. As you engage, you can guide their development and ensure their learning continues long after the formal classroom training is over.
Soapbox: Rock of Sages As people stay in the workforce longer and the economy continues to churn, we need to turn to tap into the wisdom of leadership sages about what is needed to live full lives in the challenging and changing world of work.
Learning Exchange: Instructional Design is a Discipline Is instructional design at your organization based on what someone has in a file? That's disturbing. As the cost of delivery far exceeds the cost of development, an investment in a methodical approach to instructional design pays for itself many times in performance outcomes.
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