Supercompetent Speaking: Tailoring Your Presentation to Your Audience
By Laura Stack, MBA, CSP
One of the most important tenants in speaking is know thy audience. Failure to do your homework can mean failure. At a minimum, your message will be diluted and won’t have the impact it could have. You always will do a much better job when you conduct better research.
Virtual Tech Alters 21st Century Corporate Learning
By Eric Vidal, Director, Product Marketing, Event Services Business Segment, InterCall
Technology has altered the reality of today’s learners. The evidence is all around us. Employees (students), both young and old, constantly have their noses buried in large and small screens, often at the same time.
The Will to Win
By Rob Jolles
While I was growing up, I was a fan of the late Vince Lombardi. Not only was he one of the greatest coaches ever, but he also finished his career with my Washington Redskins. He is the man who is forever linked to the following words:“Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”
Attitude Will Affect Your Career Altitude
By Richard B. Secord
Leveraging 3 Primary Management Styles
By Paul B. Thornton, Professor, Business Administration, Springfield Technical Community College
Management style greatly affects employees’ motivation and capacity to learn. The most effective managers vary their styles depending on the employee’s knowledge and skills, the nature of the task, time constraints, and other factors. By so doing, they encourage and inspire employees to do their best at all times.
Practice, Creativity, Emotion, and the Brain
By Matt Norman, President, Dale Carnegie Training in the North Central U.S.
As a professional trainer, I am all too familiar with a common pattern that creates an obstacle to learning and change: Companies train employees on new skills or behaviors. Employees intellectually grasp the new concepts presented during training. They make initial efforts to incorporate the new ideas into their work, but the new practices seem awkward. It takes extra effort to use them. Eventually, they fall back into their old, comfortable habits.
Empower the Front Line to Lead
By Ray Attiyah
Transitioning leadership of the day-to-day aspects of the business to the front line is rarely as easy as simply saying it needs to occur. The goal is not to dump responsibility in the lap of the front line and then dash to an office to start thinking of improvement opportunities. Effective leaders want to transition responsibilities so the front line is always capable of undertaking them. Then leaders can start planning proactive improvements for the front line’s systems and processes.
Media Screening: Avoid Brand Damage From a Bad Hire
By Bill Tate, President, HR Plus
In today’s economy, where jobs are still scarce and the competition for open positions is fierce, how does a company know it has selected the perfect candidate for an executive position? Sure, you have completed numerous face-to-face interviews; the candidate has passed the background check, fingerprinting, and drug testing; and references have been called. But what else should you know?
Millennials’ Effect on Recruiting and Job Searching
BySusan Vitale, CMO, iCIMS
DiSC in the Work Environment
By Merrick Rosenberg and Daniel Silvert
The degree to which people like their jobs is largely a function of the corporate culture in which they work. People spend a significant percentage of their waking lives at work, so matching work environment with style can lead to greater job satisfaction and a more rewarding career. Although no setting likely will satisfy every want or need, there’s a lot to be said for understanding the types of environments that bring out our best.