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Middle managers often feel like they are on the front lines alone, and they crave feedback and advice from their managers and company leaders.

The Managers Preparing to Accomplish Change Today (MPACT) at PBJC is a selective program designed to develop and elevate the skills of already high-performing managers in the Alabama-based human resources agency’s Merit System.

To learn, we need support, opportunity, resources, and aptitude. Moreover, we need to be willing to stick with learning through some setbacks and failures until we achieve a breakthrough in our ability.

Your employees (of all ages) must have the hard skills to do the job, but soft skills such as professionalism, critical thinking, and followership make all the difference—whether at the lowest end of the technical skill spectrum or the highest.

Increasingly functioning as trusted advisors, L&D leaders and professionals have moved out of the training silo and are engaging throughout their organizations.

Learning to take accountability for your actions is the first step in changing your reality and meeting your goals. Here are a couple of tips to help you forgo your “perfectness” and come back down to Earth.

When an organization mandates and operates with a corporate language strategy, global leaders are able to communicate with a diverse range of employees and business partners, increasing the sharing of firsthand information, which leads to better decision-making.

Regular “competitive pitch workshops,” one team up against another, can be a good way of replicating the live pitch experience.

Build organizational strategies and challenges into your online curriculum and reinforce them back on the job. And surround each learner with partners who can support and encourage development.

This onboarding program aims to create an opportunity for new employees to connect to the organization, their teammates, and FORUM’s purpose.