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Channeling Change: Changing the Seemingly Unchangeable
Convincing colleagues or employees to change their ways isn't easy. Joseph Grenny, author of "Crucial Conversations" and "Crucial Confrontations" and co-founder of change consultancy VitalSmarts, gives Training magazine Senior Writer Margery Weinstein his insights on accomplishing it.
No Hiding Place for Leaders
Your weeping CEO notwithstanding, it's good for leaders to be hearty. What can you do to toughen up your executive board, and, more importantly, the company's up-and-coming leaders?
Feel Good and Do Great Work: Professional Development as a Business Strategy
Over the last two years, our Colleague and Leader Development teams have found several unique opportunities to help our learners "walk the talk" of wellness and prevention. Here are our tips for thinking about how to improve your own organization’s overall health in mind, body, and spirit.
Six Steps to Capturing Employees' Knowledge
Information Mapping, Inc.'s Information Mapping method applies cognitive adult learning theory to all types of information, making it easier for the end-user to consume and act on it. Recently, one such food and beverage giant turned to IMI for help codifying a divisional employee team's efforts to turn a global strategy into an actionable, systematic process with measurable success.
Capturing the Wisdom That Fell Through the Cracks of Gutenberg and Google
Games and simulations are beloved by your youngest workers, but savvy trainers need to implement them the right way to ensure learning has occurred.
Checklist to Design Effective Job Aids
A job aid provides concise information or an easy-to-follow set of instructions to perform a specific task or procedure. Use the checklist job aid below as a guide to create and evaluate your own job aids.
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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.
Training Today: Manager-Employee Gap Widens
A research study measuring employee development and contribution by Novations Group, Inc., uncovered a discrepancy between managers and employees on performance ratings.
Training Today: How Safe Is Your Job Applicant Data?
ID theft expert Brian Lapidus, chief operating officer of Kroll Fraud Solutions (the data security arm of global risk consulting company Kroll Inc.), offers tips for protecting applicant data.
Quality Rules When Buying Training Products
The quality of learning and development still counts when purchasing training services, according to Righttrack Consultancy.
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.


News
Could Your Company's Woes Be Tied To Gray Skies?
The way you pay your employees, and limit their promotion opportunities in the recession, no wonder they look glum, you think to yourself. Actually, as hard as your company's recession survival strategies are on them, it may be more than that. They may have Seasonal Affective Disorder, and you may have workplace legal obligations to them because of it.
Social Media Users Actually More Social
Research finds offline relations enhanced by online social media
First Year Executive Compensation Down 7.3 percent
Compensation for first year top-level executives dropped 7.3 percent this year.
"Crucial Conversations" Author Joseph Grenny Offers Executive Briefing
Is it time for a "Crucial Conversation?" How about an executive briefing? Joseph Grenny, co-founder of VitalSmarts and author of "Crucial Conversations" and "Crucial Confrontations," offered tips in an executive briefing in New York City last week about influencing the intractable.
Does Your Company Need to Invest In a Hand Wash Monitoring System?
Many of you don't trust front-line workers not to slack off. Now, with the H1N1 virus making everyone jittery, you have to trust them to be cleanly? That's too much to ask. Apparently, a technology developer out there was thinking the same thing.
Is Your Company Ready for the "People-Led" Economy?
Unbelievable, but true, the answers to your company's woes could come in the form of your workforce, rather than the high-priced consultants you've invested in over the years.
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