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Leveraging the internal tales of leadership to reinforce positive culture and right behaviors.

How focusing on respect can change the very atmosphere of where you work.

Traditional learning and development often relies upon transfer of learning measures, and leaders in L&D constantly are extrapolating all available metrics to determine levels of business impact or ROI.

Most of us have either sat around a campfire ourselves and sang the words or we’ve joined along with our own or other people’s children in a sing-along of “If You’re Happy and You Know It…” followed by the random actions chosen by each singer depicting what makes him or her happy.

Employees today have changed. They have different priorities, and what makes them happy today is not what we once focused on as employee motivators. To get the most out of our employees today, we have to be in tune with those things they value and they truly want.

Do you remember those divisions at universities and colleges called “lifelong learning centers”? Their name was an attempt to remind all of us who had graduated and gone on to work that learning should never stop.

It makes every business sense to find practical and creative ways to tap into the inner spark in yourself and your team. Here’s how to light the way.

By Roy Saunderson,Chief Learning Officer, Rideau’s Recognition Management Institute Please remember I am a Baby Boomer. I am only partially immersed in technology, which sometimes my children have to help me wade through. I remember getting my first iPhone more than a year ago, and I kept looking through the packing box for the instruction manual. There was just a small piece of paper simply telling me how to turn it on and plug it in to charge it up. That was about it. And so the learning began.

By Roy Saunderson, Chief Learning Officer, Rideau’s Recognition Management Institute It’s true: People aren’t always motivated to learn. Our challenge each day is to make learning and our instructional materials and content as meaningful as possible for many people in the workplace. Yes, a tall order, but one that has rewarding benefits when we are successful.

By Roy Saunderson, Chief Learning Officer, Rideau’s Recognition Management Institute There is a classic cliché definition that meetings are where minutes are kept and hours are lost. However, someone I know recently challenged that perspective by suggesting the idea that every meeting should be a revelatory experience.