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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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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

What’s needed to overcome what I call the “leadership crisis,” is not new technology or massive staffing changes. people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered.

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7 Factors Affecting the Success of Organizational Leadership Development

Center for Creative Leadership

How can you use e-learning and technology to stretch and enhance your development efforts? Engagement stage: This includes what happens during the training program itself. How can you create space for the participant to focus on their learning and disengage from their “day job?”.

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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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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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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

This strategy uses a different set of management processes focused on speedy action, learning through failure, and a premeditated approach to market experimentation that creates instant feedback. We don't yet know whether Glassboard's technology will be a market winner.