Leadership Development
Leadership development encourages the planning, creation and management of training programs and skills building needed to become a successful leader — from top executives to managers.
Study: Short Term New Hire Performance More Valuable Than Retention
New professional and managerial level employees face a make-or-break “race for impact†as businesses demand more from staff during the tough economic climate, according to a global study from recruitment services firm Futurestep.
Lectora Introduces New ReviewLink 1.0 Collaborative e-Learning Review Tool
This e-Learning review tool seeks to enable e-Learning teams to quickly share and review Lectora courses for online training with team members in any location and at any time.
The State of Measurement: Progress Continues
Learning organizations that can demonstrate the impact of learning initiatives can expect to have greater influence when needed.
A Seat at the Wells Fargo Table
If learning isn’t at the table when key initiatives are planned, odds are not good that the organization will get the resources and time necessary to successfully enable the projects.
Corporate Learning Execs to Gather at U of Penn for Leadership Conference
Titled "Breakthrough Ideas on 21st Century Learning," the event seeks to bring together faculty and thought leaders to apply academic theory and practices to the creation of innovation in corporate cultures.
Study: Self-Promoters Six Times More Likely to Derail
Recent “Pulse on Leaders†studies have identified several leadership behaviors that increase the potential for the risk of being demoted, fired or performing below the level of expected achievement.
How to Create a Culture of Coaching
Coaching can be a powerful workforce development tool. Maximize its value by promoting an organizational culture where it’s embedded in every activity of leaders at all levels.
We Need a Revolution
It’s time to make learning central to organizational management. For this to work the culture within the tribe needs to focus on core values as the determiner for action.
Follow the Evidence
None of higher education’s growth in the last 30 years has been in traditional institutions or traditional students. Consider an alternative to the accelerated approach to higher education.
MSU Certificate Program to Build Leadership Skills Online
Classes feature instructor-led videos that can be watched online or downloaded to mobile devices, as well as opportunities for real-time interaction with instructors and classmates in chat rooms and discussion boards.
Genetec Launches Training Partnership Program, Set to Expand Training Services Worldwide
The program aims to provide select organizations with the tools and resources necessary to deliver technical certification training for video surveillance and access control to customers.
How to Develop Mental Toughness in Leaders
Business leaders, much like athletes, need to be psychologically ready to play. Mentoring and coaching can help them cultivate this trait.
Casting a Critical Eye on Coaching
There are proven benefits to coaching as a leadership development tool if engagements are structured, transparent and their effectiveness measured.
Survey: Firms Concerned If Senior Execs Have Skills to Generate Growth
In a survey by the Korn/Ferry Institute, 52 percent of executive respondents say their companies need to acquire at least a modicum of new talent or invest in more talent development efforts for their executives.
Survey: Lack of New Ideas, Red Tape Greatest Barriers to Innovation
Further, roughly 24 percent of respondents cited excessive bureaucracy as the top creativity killer, while 20 percent blamed being bogged down with daily tasks or putting out fires, the survey said.