L&D Leaders: Are You Ready for Emerging Technologies? You Should Be!
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are very real components of what training and e-learning are fast becoming, promoting a miraculous depth of knowledge and skill we previously never thought possible.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: Leadership Certification at Total Quality Logistics
In utilizing employees who have completed the Sales Leadership Program (SLP) and Leadership Development Program (LDP) certifications, freight brokerage firm Total Quality Logistics (TQL) has seen a 52 percent increase in new satellite office openings in 2015, and an estimated 2016 increase of 75 percent.
Virtual Collaboration and Peripheral Vision
We can experience ambient awareness when using social media tools such as Facebook or Twitter. Each individual update that comes our way might be relatively insignificant, but over time these fragments of information gel into meaningful patterns, i.e., they provide us with digital peripheral vision of people, actions, and events.
The Greatest Challenge Trainers and Leaders Face: Shifting Gears
As you drive, you use gears to move ahead, slowly at first, then more rapidly and easily. As you succeed, you use gears, too. Like good drivers, you must learn to recognize which gear is needed, and when and how to shift up and down.
Embrace New Leadership Programs to Survive in Disruptive Markets
In the old world, good planning and analysis and conservative decision-making yielded good results. In the new world, there is limited information, little time to analyze, and conservative decision-making means you will be out of business seemingly in an instant.
The Absurdity and Truth of “The Office”
An episode of TV show “The Office” illuminates the importance of apps or portals in the workforce that allow for the right amount of personalization each employee requires in order to do his or her job to the best of his or her ability.
How Entrepreneurially Ready Are You?
The Small Business Administration (SBA) defines “entrepreneur” as “a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of profit.” A short quiz can help you assess your entrepreneurial readiness—i.e., how well you embody these three simple qualities
Everybody Is a Leader
Not everybody can become Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, or Martin Luther King Jr., but let us learn to lead and influence others as best as we can. When all of us lead in a small way, it will make a major difference to society.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: Area Director Tailored Consultations at Choice Hotels International
Choice Hotels International’s business intelligence group worked for three months to develop frequency algorithms that could be used to create customized consultation templates for its area director organization, which provides operational coaching and consultations to hotels.
Teaching Good Work Habits
Today’s young employees tend to see these basic work habits as matters of personal choice or style and often do not see the concrete business reasons for the requirements or preferences of their managers. On the other hand, sometimes managers have strong preferences or requirements for which there is no true business reason.