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Creating Purposeful Leadership Development Training Programs

The Regis Company

As professionals in the instructional design community, we often pride ourselves on being at the forefront of learning innovation. There are many shiny objects available to corporate development training companies to infuse their programs with from a wide array of technologies (i.e.: badges, leaderboards). Seems obvious, right?

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

On the agenda, was a business simulation that was akin to an outdoor scavenger hunt. The participants were divided into small groups and each team was asked to spend a few hours strategizing and developing a plan that would lead to the best and fastest way to find items and “collect” associated winnings. This is different.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 46 – Your Leadership Off-Site is Wasting a Lot of People’s Time

Strategy Driven

We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. Dan Parisi, Executive Vice President at BTS, a leading strategy execution consulting firm focused on the development and delivery of high-impact experiential learning initiatives that drive strategic priorities.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

Books are great to foster intellectual understanding but are not interactive and do not reflect the reality of busy schedules and declining attention spans. And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.