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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. But even experts can fall prey into the familiar safety net of “teach to the objective” approaches. gifting, virtual goods, virtual reality) to gamification (i.e.: badges, leaderboards).

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

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

And the corporate executive playing games to improve his or her strategy-making skills is still rare. We think that games have an important place in cultivating good strategists, and that now more than ever games can give executives an edge over their competition. Games allow structured analysis of an executive’s behavior.

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

The FreshBiz game creates a business simulation where players create “Smartnerships,” play Action Cards, learn to leverage their strengths, and use other principles that help them embody a “For-Benefit” approach to business, where success is when everyone wins. Simcha Gluck is the chief trainer and co-founder of FreshBiz Global.

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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.