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Diversity Training That Changes People

Lead Change Blog

Ralph Brandt, organizational development consultant and managing partner at RDR Group, initiated a landmark study to find out whether diversity training really changes people. To see if there was any scientifically measurable difference in those trained to be inclusive and committed to practicing it. Learn more and register here.

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Find the Best Talent for the Job. Training Workshop

Mike Cardus

The University at Buffalo School of Social Work Continuing Education Department and I are offering a 1 day – 6 hour Training workshop: Find the Best Talent for the Job : Implementing a Competency-based Hiring Process. and international employers are using competency-based systems to recruit, interview and select employees.

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Dunking Trainees in the Training Tank Often Makes Things Worse

The Practical Leader

Recently a training director asked for a customer service training workshop. As we discussed what she was looking for, it became clear she wanted “customer courtesy” or “smile 101” training. Dunking participants in the training tank might change some behavior. But it doesn’t last.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Remarkably, after only two off-site workshops, our teams started to function better. a start-up that was acquired by Intel in 2009.

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3 steps to take, to take full advantage of training/learning sessions

First Friday Book Synopsis

So, yesterday, I had lunch with a man who leads leadership training sessions, especially for municipal governments. Today, I attended a morning workshop led by Tom Niesen of Acuity Systems: Consultant Workshop – The… Read More 3 steps to take, to take full advantage of training/learning sessions.

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Supervisory Leadership Development Workshop

Mike Cardus

INTERESTED IN PURCHASING THIS TRAINING? Ask yourself; How much am I spending on bringing new people in and training them?; Systems-Drive-Behavior. Developing and understanding systemic roles and procedures for effective supervisory-leadership. INTERESTED IN PURCHASING THIS TRAINING? Why it’s important. What is it.

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Is resilience and bounding back faster what we need now?

Mike Cardus

Over socially-distanced coffee, a friend commented on how they’ve facilitated four ‘resilience and bouncing back faster’ workshops. . All of our of us as individuals, we depend on many other systems for our resilience.’ ’ Resilience is the capacity of a community system.

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