August’s Top Reads
More than 11,000 business books are published every year—an overwhelming choice for busy professionals. Therefore, in partnership with getAbstract, Training brings you August’s top three business books recommended to our readers.
Research Study: Social Learning Gains Momentum
One-quarter of organizations of survey respondents are engaging in truly “social” media for learning. They are leveraging things such as blogs, discussions, and other tools to make it easier to connect and share.
5 Tactics to Enlist Support to Advance Your Job Search
Often, executive positions slip through candidates’ fingers because they weren’t prepared to answer a question on the spot or they forgot who they met at a networking event. With these tools and resources, you’ll be able to avoid such faux pas, advance your search faster, and improve your chances of landing an executive position.
BP’s Petrophysics Accelerated Development Program
Petrophysics ADP was designed to develop and renew competencies critical to the description of oil and gas resources on all BP assets. The program was designed to enable petrophysicists to become true performers within two years.
Merging Executives into the Matrix
In times of consolidation within industries, many experienced leaders need career support and new strategies.
Re-Energizing Career Management
Were you to be invited by your line manager to jointly explore how the organization matches up against your personal ambitions and how you see your career developing, what would be your reaction? And as a line manager, how would you feel about initiating such a dialogue?
Now’s the Time for Environmental Training
The ability of environmental training to deliver benefits rests on the development of a vibrant partnership between the learning and development, environmental, and business sectors.
Removing Obstacles to Achieving Corporate Goals
So the first of the reasons we fail to achieve our corporate goals is that we often attempt to implement them without following the best practices of change management. If a business is to grow and develop, it must consciously evaluate its failed goals against these current best practices.
Give Your Employees Tools to Ditch the Pitch
Pitches don’t hold customers’ attention. They are not persuasive. We have to stop making sales pitches and presentations. Instead, we must create persuasive conversations.
VAAA’s Project Management Fellows Program
The VA Acquisition Academy PM Fellows Program is a selective professional development initiative that leverages a learner-driven model on a blended platform to create holistic learning for aspiring mission-critical project managers (PMs). To date, 21 percent of Fellows received promotions in the first year of participation in the program.
