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Becoming a Better Achiever

You don’t have to accept your past performance as a measure of your future performance. But before you step forward to take the leap toward achievement, recognize that you can learn to become a better achiever.

Virtual vs. Classroom Training

Best practices for designing virtual training that performs equally as well as traditional classroom training.

Training Top 125 Best Practice: Onboarding at Cartus

Over the years of integrating nearly 400 global employees from a merger, Cartus established tried-and-true practices the organization now uses to onboard any group to its organizational processes.

Mitigating Cyber Risks Brought on by Hiring Recent College Grads

HR and IT must work together during the onboarding process to help prevent the loss or exposure of sensitive company data by providing cybersecurity training to recent hires.

You Can’t “Bestow” Empowerment

Empowerment is not something that can be bestowed upon others in a gesture of managerial noblesse oblige. Rather, empowerment is a feeling of safety while exercising judgment on the job.

How to Identify Leadership Limitations Through a Gap Analysis

A Center for Creative Leadership leadership gap analysis of 2,339 managers found the six key skill sets that are among the weakest for current leaders—inspiring commitment, leading employees, strategic planning, change management, employee development, and self-awareness—are the most important skills leaders will need for future organizational success.

Your Purpose Matters

Purpose inspires, provides a clear focus for the day, and gives the courage to transcend life’s greatest challenges.

Training Top 125 Best Practice: Proof of Proficiencies at Best Buy

A Proof of Proficiency is a document that is used by a store leader in validating an employee’s ability to speak knowledgeably to customers and demonstrate a recommendation that leads to a customer purchase.

Digital Ecosystems: Good News for Training

According to Accenture, companies need to develop “more agile ways of working across ecosystems composed of looser, partner-based collaboration.”

A Leader’s Guide to Everyday Productivity

To not get trapped in an endless cycle of activities that aren’t aligned to desired results, leaders have to know themselves and how they can bring the most value to their organization.

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