Put Culture First and Forever
By Robert Reiss and Jeff Fox
There are three sustaining factors in business: winning culture, marketing, and innovation. That’s it. Three factors.
Marketing is the identification, attraction, getting and keeping of okay customers. Innovation is creating new products, new ideas, new ways, new processes, new anything.
Leaders’ Decision-Making: A Blended Approach
By Dr. Jay McNaught, Senior Manager, Leadership Development, Pfizer Animal Health, and Cliff Hebard, Principal Consultant, Hebard & Associates Corporate Learning Systems, LLC
Decision-making as a stand-alone leadership development topic seems to generate less interest—on the surface, at least—than other topics.
One cause may be the persistent beliefs that decisions are made either (a.) logically or (b.) intuitively, but not both.
On the contrary, research suggests that:
Don’t Just Say It, Convey It
By David Lapin
The foundation of robust communication rests more on the ability to hear than on the capacity to speak. Communication is ineffective if it isn’t heard, no matter how eloquent the speech. As leaders, we need to hear our people, but equally important, we need to make sure the people we lead are hearing us. This applies on a day-to-day level, but is particularly important when having a serious conversation with an individual about his or her performance.
Managing the “Me” Generation
By Jack Zenger, CEO, and Joseph Folkman, President, Zenger Folkman
Onboarding as Part of Talent Management Strategy
Big or small, every company has to onboard new employees. Some organizations manage the process better than others. A select few take onboarding to the next level and integrate their onboarding program into their talent management process. The result of this integration is that onboarding becomes a key component of a company’s talent strategy.
Using 3-D Animated Video for Workforce Training
By Joelle Scheldorf
Media designer Ruben Jauregui studies one of two widescreen computer displays on his desk. It shows an image of an industrial machine, dense with rollers, servomotors, and other mechanical components.
“It’s called an Embosser,” Jauregui explains. “It’s used for combining two paper plies together. This model took me three weeks to make. It can take less, but this one was pretty complicated.”
Better Training Through Show, Not Tell
By Frank Ryle, PMP, Senior Trainer, International Institute for Learning, Inc.
“You need to be able to show us and not tell us what we need to know.”
This was probably the biggest tip I ever received early in my career as a corporate trainer in project management.
Is Your Talent Assessment Center Letting You Down?
By Nino Lamberti, Senior Partner, The Vaya Group
The Changing Face of Training
By Paul Glover
When managers decide to train their employees, they are sometimes disappointed when their efforts fail. This happens because managers don’t always train employees on the skills that are most essential for moving the company forward.
Where Are Your New Leaders Coming From?
By Michael Leimbach, Ph.D., Vice President of Global Research and Design, Wilson Learning Worldwide, and Barb Taruscio, Senior Consultant