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Corporate Culture: A Foundation for Success

By Clara Lippert Glenn, CEO/President, The Oxford Princeton Programme Creating a corporate culture is a unique and important undertaking that will have a significant impact on your company’s overall success. It is one aspect of business that many overlook. However, cultivating a professional atmosphere where your employees know what to expect and what is expected of them is crucial to employee retention and production, as well as your company’s overall success. It is an investment in time and energy that is well worth making.

Leadership and the Art of Struggle

By Steven Snyder

Empower Your Inner Manager

By Ian R. Mackintosh Many books on the market teach specific management training skills. This book is not intended to teach you how to gain or develop those skills. And be aware that some of those skills can be taught, some can be gained experientially, and some are simply innate. Regardless of the state of your skill set, this book will show you how to assess your skills and formulate an effective plan for your career development.

Learn to Fear Your Strengths to Become a Better Leader

By Robert E. Kaplan and Robert B. Kaiser

How We Think and the Workplace

By Katie Day Everyone has a natural, default communication style that regulates their view of the world and everyone in it. This affects how we deal with learning new tasks, our team player ability, our individual leadership styles, what we find stressful or stress free, how we receive and give messages, how we filter the information we hear and decide what to pass on to other people.

ConAgra Foods Activates Sales GMs

Edited by Margery Weinstein

Hiring for the Best Fit

By Curtis L. Odom, Ed.D., Principal and Managing Partner, Prescient Training Strategists, LLC Recruiters are on the front lines of the workforce, trying to bring talent into organizations; there are many qualified people out there from a credential standpoint. Fit is where the true challenge lies. Will this person fit our organization? There are many meanings to that. Does the person look and feel to others like he or she belongs here?

Filling the Energy Workforce Skills Gap

By Phil Polefrone, Senior Vice President, Workforce Solutions, GSE Systems, Inc.

Training Announces Winners of Its 2013 Emerging Training Leaders Awards

Minneapolis (March 28, 2013) –Training magazine named the winners of its 2013 Emerging Training Leaders awards, recognizing 25 training professionals who have been in the industry for two to 10 years and have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, business savvy, and training instincts.

Relationships and the Evolution of Corporate Learning

By the Brandon Hall Group Research Team With Valentine’s Day behind us and spring upon us, it’s a good time to talk about relationships. Well, maybe not those kinds of relationships, but rather the relationships that exist within your company’s learning ecosystem.

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