3 Crucial Behaviors for Leading Innovation
The crux of the challenge is simply that leaders may be taking the same approach to innovation that they take to other existing organizational operations. But what works well in an operational context can cripple or doom an innovation initiative.
Learn and Lead
The workforce is a volatile place and if you can’t take the time to glean the knowledge needed to stay relevant, that workforce will find someone else to do it.
Being Proactive Pays: 5 Things Salespeople Should Do to Make Their Number
Many sellers and managers figure they need two to three times their quota in their pipelines to feel good about what the future holds. The challenge is that if a high percentage of opportunities are at the top of a seller’s funnel, a false sense that “all is well” can result.
Adopt Soft Leadership to Resolve Conflicts Amicably
Soft leadership emphasizes persuasion, negotiation, discussion, and dialogue to resolve conflicts with people orientation without compromising task orientation.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: Team Up at United Shore
Leaders “Team Up” with other leaders in different parts of the company to learn about that area of the organization and to identify opportunities for improvement within the area they’re shadowing.
The Remedy for Disengaged Employees? A Connected Workplace
The key to successfully implementing a digital workplace platform is to make it an essential component of every employee’s day-to-day tasks, at both a productivity and social level. They’ll come for the essentials, and they will stay for the collaboration abilities, cultural content, and the community.
Millennials to Boomers: Let’s Call It a Communication Gap
The goal in cross-generational communication training is not to study Millennials like aliens from another planet, but rather to improve interpersonal skills among diverse age groups to everyone’s benefit.
2 Keys to a Successful Learning Strategy
Creating a blended learning environment with multiple opportunities for learners to engage in a wide array of formats and modalities is the critical piece to connecting the learning strategy to business outcomes.
A Training Revolution
What e-learning has been missing is what is known as a 3-D game engine. It works by building a 3-D model of some scene, adding characters with articulated joints with motion-capture movement controlled by some intelligence, then providing a means of moving through the scene.
Train Your Salespeople
Great sales management has to put a great training and coaching program in place, because there are very few salespeople who are born sellers who don’t require any direction.