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Performance coaching is the oldest form of on-the-job training (OJT) and a vital component of any talent development strategy. Organizations sometimes neglect to adequately coach employees...

Don’t you love using checklists to accomplish things? They help guarantee the essential elements are included. Even with things we do on a regular basis, they come in handy. A checklist to...

Grammar goofs, punctuation problems, and spelling slipups undercut individual professionalism and company credibility. In the battle for reader attention, business documents that are...

As we near the close of the fourth quarter, training providers are in high gear to make year-end sales. Leadership training is probably the largest market of off-the-shelf content available...

The L&D community should be the experts of how people learn and, therefore, positioned to make a major contribution to the business in the current state of transition of today’s...

What do you think of when you hear the word networking? The term intimidates many people, including me, because it centers around going to events (either in person or, these days, virtually...

The story is familiar to so many of us. One day we’re at our desk designing a course, building a leadership program, or preparing to facilitate a workshop on organizational culture. The...

I recently had to make a difficult decision. My proposal to deliver a presentation at the annual conference of the largest HR organization had been approved last year, and I was waiting to...

Ive long admired both the quality and sheer volume of thought leadership produced by bestselling author, consultant, and coach Dorie Clark. It was a thrill to interview her about her book,...

For employersregulated and unregulated, large and small, public and privatemismanaged e-collaboration tools are a liability. Test Your E-Collaboration Risk AwarenessTake this five-point...

These same characteristics can be, but are often not, applied to leadership development. It is a process that progresses and unfolds over time.Yet, learning professionals are often asked to...

Why Cartography?Cartography is the creation of maps and charts. If you want to go from point A to point B, a map is a valuable resource that shows you the lay of the land, the alternative...

Many learning and development professionals were taught to follow the training plan for consistency, especially when different facilitators were delivering the same training. Lets look at...

In prior articles, we reintroduced the eight principles of Learnertainment. Evoke emotion. Principle Two: Perspectives deepen meaning.

I stood in the middle of a wide stage in an empty conference center. Like many of you, Ive spent the last 18 months making eye contact through a webcam and toggling tech boxes to check in...

The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the globalization of organizations and the political trends toward nationalism. Based on the number of new requests I’ve received for cultural agility training,...

The rapid-fire adoption of social media has increased electronic risks, including workplace lawsuits, regulatory audits, security breaches, and bruised brands. No longer restricted to...

There are estimates of more than 11 days a year lost per worker from stress alone. More than 129,000 deaths in the US every year are attributed to stress.

The mainstream hiring process is unfriendly toward neurodivergent individuals, particularly those who have autism . The fact that special opportunities such as veterans’ programs,...

The old model of knowledge dumping on learners has proven time after time to produce little success. Seeing employees be more productive through on-the-job, contextual training versus when...