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What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About Action Learning Projects

Let's Grow Leaders

Done well, action learning projects are one of the very best forms of leadership development. A great action learning program (ALP) has tremendous benefits: New ideas from fresh perspectives. Learning is contextual. It doesn’t feel like training. Real work gets done. Lack of Project Sponsorship.

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What Wickipedia Can’t Tell You About Action Learning Projects

Let's Grow Leaders

Done well, action learning projects are one of the very best forms of leadership development. A great action learning program (ALP) has tremendous benefits: New ideas from fresh perspectives. Learning is contextual. It doesn’t feel like training. Real work gets done. Lack of Project Sponsorship.

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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

Train Leaders in the importance of gender balance. For example, diverse “action learning” teams often produce the most creative solutions. Engage high potentials in career and development discussions. This is an all-important first step; otherwise the rest could turn into a compliance exercise.

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TeamBuilding De-Brief + Processing Tool: STAR Method

Mike Cardus

click here for the how-to book. This STAR method can also be used for processing (de-briefing) a team building and training simulation. Here is the Model – from MIT Careers Office. How can we transfer these team & personal actions that led to these results back to your team (organization, community, family, etc…)?

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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. My message is a simple one…stop pondering and pontificating make a decision and take action.

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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. It should continue with the cross-disciplinary study relevant to realistic training in the area.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

’” Or perhaps he doesn’t know how to teach others what he knows. ” The learner might sit in on a conference call to hear how the expert pitches clients or attend a meeting to observe her soliciting input from colleagues in another department. . “He thinks, ‘That’s just the way I do things.’”