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Venturing into Video Training

By Gary Lipkowitz, COO, GoAnimate Awkward. That’s how HR managers and participants alike may feel during a training session on harassment. Bored. That’s how a trainer may feel delivering the same procedures and summaries for the 1,000th time to the latest crew of recruits. Tired. That’s how your subject matter expert may feel after a long night at the keyboard (i.e., computer or piano bar) on the morning of your training session.

Designing Smarter Teams

By Roger Schwarz

3 Perspectives to Developing Leadership Effectiveness

By Bernard Desmidt “The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.”—Blaine Lee Looking to develop your leadership effectiveness? Here are three perspectives to consider:

What’s Your CQ?

By Barbara A. Trautlein, Ph.D.         

4 Key Strategies for Increasing Transference

By Al Switzler, Co-Founder, VitalSmarts Have you ever felt frustration or disappointment about the amount of change that resulted from your training initiative? At the end of the training, you knew the participants learned the material—they shined on the cognitive assessment, performed like professionals in the practice sessions, and received gold stars on the behavioral test. And yet, when you saw them at work in real situations; surveyed their usage of the skills; and looked at the metrics you were trying to move, there were few shiny, gold stars.

Inside Disney U

By Doug Lipp

A Theory of Learning

By Marty Neumeier The metaskill of learning is a form of metacognition, or “knowing about knowing.” It’s the self-awareness that comes from observing what you think while you’re thinking it. It tells you when and how to use a particular strategy to solve a problem or address a challenge.

Driving Development with Dynamic Learning Networks

By Stacey Harris, VP, Research, Brandon Hall Group

Why Senior Leaders Fail: And How Training Can Help

By David Brookmire, Ph.D.

Train to Be a Powerfully Positive Manager

By Dr. Kathleen Brush

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