Encouraging Learners to Try Something Different A good friend of mine owns a successful company here in southeast Michigan, and he told me he plans to spend part of his summer learning how to use a CNC milling machine. Why? Each year he picks something new to learn — something challenging and different from what […]
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Addressing the Leader Mindset Does your leadership development program move the needle on the leader behaviors that make a difference? With organizations increasing their leadership training spend between 25-30 percent, it makes sense to focus keenly on what kinds of leaders we want in our organization. There’s a lot to being a great leader, and […]
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Leadership Workshops Evolve From the Classroom It’s interesting how change is sometimes thrust upon us. Innovation flourishes when disruption forces us to abandon the status quo and approach leader development without the quintessential leadership workshop. It had been widely accepted that leader skills require full-contact engagement. After all, leaders interact with people constantly. So, it […]
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Four Lateral Thinking Techniques to Help You Get “Outside the Box” Have you ever encountered an unsolvable problem? One where, no matter how much you pound on it, the solution never presents itself? This reminds me of an old TV show, Unsolved Mysteries (recently rebooted by Netflix). Over some dramatic theme music, we would see […]
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How to Handle Last-Minute Changes What do you do when things don’t go as planned? Seems to be the theme of 2020, doesn’t it? The week before Father’s Day, I found out my husband was going to have the holiday off from his job as a retail manager. We were excited because some of the […]
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Tips for Feeling Connected In an Isolating Time Whether you’re looking to grow professionally, change jobs, or stay relevant in a virtual world, here are a few practical tips I’ve discovered to help make the most of networking and professional association events and feel connected during this potentially isolating time. Prior to the Event Reach […]
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Recently, I had the opportunity to volunteer at a local high school for Career Day. Talking to teens about training can be a little bit daunting! Those of us in the industry experience the relevance daily, but effectively communicating said relevance can prove challenging. Even for students bent on heading to college, the thought of […]
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A little over a decade ago, I started a book club with a group of girlfriends, and it has become one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Not only are these women now my greatest friends and often therapists, but they also have expanded my reading horizons beyond my favorite genres and authors. […]
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Much has been discussed and addressed in the past few years regarding the modern learner. Some think this term is synonymous with describing learners from the millennial generation. But the truth is this term defines all generations in the workforce today. Technologies have largely reshaped the profile of today’s worker, and learning professionals are now […]
Read MoreRecently, I was talking to some corporate L&D people about microlearning and performance support, and the conversation turned to pushing such content to employees versus having them pull it themselves. The L&D folks said that they were returning to a push approach because employees weren’t pulling content without being nudged, prodded, and reminded to do […]
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