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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. With the abundance of training and content development providers available, the search can be daunting. So, how do you find the right learning partner?

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

Traditional marketing planning (TMP) activities have been a mainstay for the past four decades, but the theories behind them have limited relevance for new ventures facing extreme uncertainty. To be successful, new ventures must eschew these theories and instead rely on effectual marketing planning.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century. And companies performed the training, not schools. Take, for example, the impact of online technology. But a lot has changed.

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Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems

Harvard Business Review

Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Competing more effectively in existing markets is a completely different problem. What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? There’s a seemingly endless list of options to consider.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

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