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Strategies to Create a Positive Working Environment

HR Digest

Offering flexible seating options and designated collaboration spaces to encourage teamwork and creativity. Remote Workplaces For employees who work from home, organizations can support their well-being by providing a stipend for home office equipment and resources on ergonomic safety.

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Innovating Higher-Education

Mills Scofield

UVa’s Darden School of Business and University of Washington are finding unexpected value and learning by using Coursolve. Nabeel is pursuing a Master’s in Learning and Technology at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education and is also co-founder of Coursolve.org.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. Operations are sound, professional and productive.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Learning fast and slow. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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What Kind of Thinker Are You?

Harvard Business Review

Technology is making some of that effort easier. The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations.

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6 Ways to Turn Managers into Coaches Again

Harvard Business Review

An easy way to incorporate more of this type of learning is to use your regular staff meeting as a collaborative problem solving session. This builds cohesion among your team, and inspires them to think creatively about how to solve pressing organizational challenges. Tap into the potential coach within everyone. Seek formal training.

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The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners

Harvard Business Review

In a time where the half-life of any skill is about five years , leaders bear a responsibility to renew their perspective in order to secure the relevance of their organizations. To help leaders do that, we’ve developed a process we call Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM), a lifelong learning strategy.