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The Cure for “The Curse of Knowledge”

The Curse of Knowledge occurs when experts know their content so well that they forget what it’s like to be new to it.

Meeting Users Where They Are

By considering and quickly embracing three ideas—that employees are mobile, employees are social, and employees like bite-sized pieces of information—your organization can do a better job of meeting your users where they are.

5 Tips for Virtual Career Fairs

Virtual recruiting environments can reduce costs and eliminate the need to travel, speed up hiring, and improve your access to the global talent pool—so you can find people with the right skills, whenever and wherever you need them.

13 Tips for Choosing a Coach

Companies often are unsure what to do and what to think about hiring a coach as the act of coaching in general requires so much to consider. Here are some factors to keep in mind before making a decision.

Florida Blue’s Sales Talent Management Program

Florida Blue’s Sales Talent Management Program immerses students in a variety of knowledge, behavior, and skills-based courses and activities aimed at increasing retention of knowledge, driving desired sales competencies and behaviors, and enhancing skills essential to any sales role at the company.

Developing Leaders: Creating an Effective Strategy for the Future

Ultimately, leaders need to be upfront and honest, possess true business skills, be able to build relationships, have a strong presence, be honest, and be receptive to feedback. To do this effectively, organizations must be ready to develop and execute responses to several key questions.

The Importance of Active Listening

Whether you are meeting with your boss, your subordinates, your peers, a potential client, or an adversary, tuning in to what is really being said is essential. Since everyone listens based on their own values, it is easy to make incorrect assumptions if you don’t validate.

Strategies for Soul-Satisfying Success

“The Joy of Strategy; A Business Plan for Life” presents eight practical steps that mix soul and strategy to help readers find their purpose, set goals, and create a personal strategic plan to discover and realize their life’s ambitions.

The Love/Hate Relationship with Training Presentations

To ensure your audience is not making a beeline for the door or catching a quick nap during your presentation, here are some tips to make your slides both entertain and resonate.

The Shape of Talent

For many years, the corporate world has relied on two proxies to measure individual talent. The first is credentials, which provide a convenient estimate of the facts a person has mastered or the knowledge an individual possesses. The second is a person’s technical skills, which usually are assessed by previous work experience. But could there be more?

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