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Jeff Wald is the founder of Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers (acquired by ADP). Jeff has founded several other technology companies, including Spinback, a social sharing platform (eventually purchased by salesforce.com). Jeff began his career in finance, serving as Managing Director at activist hedge fund Barington Capital Group, a Vice President at venture capital firm GlenRock and various roles in the M&A Group at JP Morgan.Jeff is an active angel investor and startup advisor, as well as serving on numerous public and private Boards of Directors. He also formerly served as an officer in the Auxiliary Unit of the New York Police Department. Jeff is the author of The Birthday Rules and The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff frequently speaks at conferences and in media on startups and labor issues.

Jeff Ward

The future is now, but that doesn’t make it any easier to predict.

The Future of Work Is Being Defined

Follow these tips to gain back productive time, ward off spammers, and avoid email drama in your workplace.

Prevailing Over Email Dilemmas

Partnership: Great Goal, Insufficient Word

July 2021 - The Buzz

Organizations that value unique solutions must make space for it. One of the most successful businessmen, Jeff Bezos, CEO of retail giant Amazon, attributes his company’s success to a prioritization of wandering.

Don't Be Afraid to Let Employees Wander

To facilitate intrapreneurship, federal leaders need to allow teams and individuals to clarify their own mission and to determine how to drive the results that matter to the organization.

Intrapreneurship at an Old Government Warehouse

 For any career, learning the basics of success is analogous to an infant discovering the world—a newborn facing the challenge of making sense of sights and sounds. Slow but Sure Most of what babies hear is gibberish until they can incorporate what they hear into the structure of language. Until babies slowly begin to form words, what they utter is nonsense to others. Words such as "mama" (single syllables repeated) are babies’ first words. Later, babies tries more complex polysyllabic words.Babies eat strained peaches, pears, plums, and other mush. As they develop teeth, babies can eat more solid and complex foods. Babies play with simple toys (often brightly colored, washable, child-safe, and durable) that they can hit, bang, or simply touch.In essence, babies steadily draw on basic skills. They start walking by first leaning on the side of a couch or whatever else is available. In time, babies take a step, and finally walk across the living room without help. Even then, babies fall many times, but they get up and usually begin again optimistically.  Follow the BasicsSimilarly, tackling new information, integrating technology into your work routine, or assimilating other change is smoother when you employ basics. So, what are the basics of any career? Follow directions.Take one step at a time.Assess where you are every couple of steps.Determine that you're on the right path.Measure your progress.Practice.Develop a new routine. Specifically in the field of talent development, the basics follow The ATD Competency Model, which defines the knowledge and skills needed for success “across the entire training and development industry.” In all, there are 10 components to the model. In no particular order, they include: change managementperformance improvementinstructional designtraining deliverylearning technologiesevaluation evaluating learning impactmanaging learning programsintegrated talent managementknowledge managementcoaching.A Grand QuestIt behooves each of us, every day, to become a little better in a least one of the components. In doing so, as time passes, we could awake one fine morning to realize that our overall level of competency has risen to the point where we are among the best of industry professionals.Please share your L&D "fundamentals" in the Comments below.

Fundamentals Count

Team communication Its in the cards

Jeff has coached negotiation teams within organizations and has delivered high impact presentations from forty-five minutes to three days in length. His audience size has ranged from five executives around a boardroom table to one thousand people in an auditorium. In addition to his role as an educator and an entertainer, Jeff has also played a significant role in selling and designing negotiation training programs for SNI.Jeff has delivered customized programs for clients across many diverse sectors: Financial Services (Barclays, PricewaterhouseCoopers, J.P.Morgan Chase); Pharmaceutical (Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-aventis, Bristol Myers Squibb); Insurance (GeneralReinsurance, Nationwide); Telecommunications (Verizon, Comcast); Medical Devices (Toshiba Medical Systems, Siemens Medical); Sports (Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens, Madison Square Garden); Media (ESPN, Hearst Corporation) and a host of others. Jeff also works closely with the Anthony Robbins Platinum Partnership, an exclusive membership-only group personally coached by Tony Robbins. Jeff Cochran is a master facilitator and partner of Shapiro Negotiations Institute.

Jeff Cochran

Jeff Smith is the founder and CEO of the SupportingLines Institute. He is on a mission to help leaders and teams perform so that people have a better human experience at work. Building on 20 years of diverse leadership experience as a COO, CFO and global head of sales, Jeff created the SupportingLines framework to accelerate leadership development and cultivate high-performance cultures. His mantra, ‘supporting lines, not reporting lines,’ isn’t just a catchphrase. It embodies a comprehensive high-performance framework that delivers tangible results.Jeff is a member of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (ACEC). ACEC’s mission is to elevate recognition of corporate executive coaching as a critical profession and for corporate executive coaches to be seen as transformation catalysts for the 21st century, creating organizations of the future.He also is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Certified Dharma Yoga Instructor (which earned him the nickname “Chief Yoga Officer”) and past recipient of Business in Vancouver’s prestigious Forty Under 40 award. When he’s not at work he is passionate about family time, practicing & teaching yoga, hockey coaching and personal development.

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