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.
3 Steps for Training Tech-Inexperienced Employees
By showing such employees how new technology will make their work lives easier and more productive, they will learn to understand its value and adapt quicker.
The 5 Success Factors of Matrix Working
Organizations that allow matrix working to evolve over time benefit from greater employee engagement.
Establishing Expectations in the Job and Training Environment
How many years has it been since you had an expectations conversation with your boss or staff? Did the conversation revolve around the level of autonomy and decision-making authority given for the task or responsibility?