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Minimizing Health Complications at Miami Children’s Hospital

Miami Children’s Hospital trained more than 800 nurses on how to properly care for Peripheral Intravenous (PIV) patients—PIV therapy is the less invasive treatment of choice when drug therapy for antibiotics is required—to help avoid serious health complications.

Quick, Targeted Idea Training with Significant Strategic Impact

Short targeted training sessions called “idea activators” aim to get people to look at aspects of their work from new perspectives that highlight problems and opportunities they otherwise would not see.

Got 2020 Vision?

Does your company have a 2020 goal, a clear vision for what you’d like to achieve over the next five years? If so, is it just an idea or do people feel accountable for making it happen?

Coaching, Leader Engagement Are Key to Improved Performance Management

Even though there is a lot of talk about fresh performance management practices, Brandon Hall Group’s recent study reveals that few organizations have made any significant enhancements to the traditional “rank-and-stack” approach.

The Power of Pretty

Your appearance plays a part in your career. While we can’t Photoshop real life, we can take what we were born with and play up our aesthetic strengths.

McCarthy’s Healthy Best Practice

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.’s “Build For Life” Wellness approach is built on proactive tenets such as training for both awareness and behavior change, and a mix of both positive and negative reinforcement. Results include a 50 percent reduced health-care spending trend.

Flexibility Is Key to the Future of Higher Education

A direct assessment program awards degrees based on demonstrated learning, rather than seat time in the classroom like the credit hour. As a result, this more flexible approach has the potential to significantly reduce the time and cost of earning a degree.

Management Ethics: Choices You May Need to Make

What do you do when you have entered a position under a director but only respect the title the director has achieved and not the individual and his or her ethics/behaviors?

Virtually There: Developing the Competencies of Virtual Classroom Designers

Virtual instructional designers will need to participate as learners in the environment and be trained on how to use the technology to its best instructional advantage.

Problem Solving on a Single Sheet of Paper

The beauty of a one-page problem-solving document is that while an author is using it to explore and learn on their own, the coach can steer them through the process, challenge their assumptions, and open up unseen options.

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