Should I Stay or Should I Go?
When a manager commits to developing people, that manager is creating an environment people can thrive in. It is that type of environment that makes people commit to a manager and an organization.
“I Don’t Get No Respect!”
How focusing on respect can change the very atmosphere of where you work.
2014 Emerging Training Leader Winners
Training magazine Announces the 25 Winners of Its 2014 Emerging Training Leaders Awards
Fasten Your Seatbelt
What a plane emergency has in common with learning retention and application.
2014 Emerging Training Leaders
These 25 training professionals demonstrated stellar growth in leadership skills and business acumen
The Bulletin Board Rule
What happens to seemingly intelligent people when it comes to writing e-mails or engaging in any kind of electronic communications? They say and do things they would tell their employees, colleagues, friends, and loved ones never to do. And they get caught. And the consequences can be (and have been) devastating.
What Happens When You Add Big Data to L&D?
Traditional learning and development often relies upon transfer of learning measures, and leaders in L&D constantly are extrapolating all available metrics to determine levels of business impact or ROI.
Storm Warnings
If you are reading this in North America, chances are you’ve been buffeted by some unusually forceful weather in recent weeks and months. Flooding rains, raging blizzards, gusting winds, and frigid temperatures—extreme weather seems to have become the norm this winter.
Join the E-Learning Revolution
I'm an optimist by nature. I might worry, but deep inside I expect things to work out. If not immediately, then a little later. But if anything were to change my nature, it might be the sorry progress of e-learning. It seems we are increasingly tolerant of making poor use of the learner's time and potential.
Can Big Data Deliver Added Value?
Technologies such as the printing press and the steam engine were catalysts in creating step changes in the societal, political, and economic landscapes of their respective eras. Today, we find ourselves in the midst of a particularly prolonged period of instability as worldwide adoption of disruptive innovations such as the Web browser, social media, and the smart phone have converged to create a global digital nervous system that is profoundly redefining how we connect, communicate, coordinate, collaborate, and take collective action.