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Historically, businesses have viewed employee wellness as a way to lower health-care costs. But the rewards of wellness go far beyond reducing the price of employee benefits. If people feel good, they perform better. And if they perform at a higher level, so will your company. Here’s the evidence that shows the direct links between good health and improved company performance.

Although women have made much progress in reaching the leadership levels of business, the progress is disappointing—and stalled. Why aren’t more women making it to (and staying at) the top? The answer may be in becoming more aware of why women leave and of what they bring to the table.

Digital natives have a different set of habits, standards, expectations, and social norms that stem from being raised in a culture deeply immersed in technology, writes Brynn Evans in Chapter 1 of “Dancing With Digital Natives.” While their differences may not always clash with non-natives, their work practice is unique and demands patience and compromise from non-natives to understand it and make the most of it.

How do you prepare a “senior person” to participate in a simulation with other members of their team or organization? How do you handle a participant who chooses to dominate the simulation or debrief process? Find out the answers to these and other questions training professionals face when training via simulations.

With “Sharing Hidden Know-How” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, April 2011), Katrina Pugh introduces a radical new way to unlock the knowledge captive in organizations. She introduces the “Knowledge Jam,” a facilitated conversation between “Originators” (experienced individuals, teams, networks) and “Brokers” (representatives of the learners, such as instructional designers). Learn how a facilitated conversation makes know-how come out into the open and translate into practice.

When you’re giving a presentation, youare your most important visual. Therefore, your body language has power: You can use it to bring life to your material and to indicate how you want your listeners to react to what you’re telling them. That being the case, you need to remain constantly aware of the image you portray, from the moment you stand up, until after your presentation is complete.

The better a training department can capture, retain, and disseminate its acquired cultural intelligence throughout the organization, the greater the strategic value it will bring.

Much has been written about generational differences in the workplace, but what about generational attitudes about management? The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)'s Emerging Leaders Research Survey tackled this topic, obtaining 3,417 responses from a sample composed of 57 percent women and 43 percent men.

Communications expert Peter Fogel says his program, "Peter 'The Humorator' Fogel's Guide to Effective Public Speaking," can make anyone an effective public speaker. This former stand-up comedian and current motivational speaker asserts from his own experience that in general people's greatest fear is public speaking...