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Familiarizing Yourself with the Role of Mentorship in Career Development

HR Digest

The role of mentorship in career development used to be a lot more prominent once upon a time but we’ve grown more individualistic with the passing years, fully committing to the “every man for himself” ideology. They bring knowledge of both the highs and lows in their career and become part of your learning experience too.

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RIP: Retired in Position

Lead Change Blog

employees are not showing up to work fully committed to delivering their best performance. All jobs have a learning curve—but as time progresses, and the skill is enhanced, the challenge of the job will lessen. You own your professional development and know that your role has a shelf life.

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Let’s Stop Pushing “Development” as a Cheap Replacement for Training

Great Leadership By Dan

This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees. What training staff was left was charged with trying to convince the remaining employees that the company 40 hour training commitment was really a 40 hour development commitment. I hate wasting money and people’s time on lousy training !

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The Art and Science of Professional Development

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Bill Bartlett : What is your position on professional development? I have been coaching and training business executives for over 20 years and I find the high performers demonstrate a common need to continuously raise the learning bar to stay ahead of the competition. Simply developing them, however, is not enough.

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Christy Pambianchi on Shaping HR Leadership

HR Digest

I’m a firm believer in the importance of lifelong learning, which is part of the reason I love my role at Intel so much. One of the core principles of our people strategy is to foster a culture that celebrates continuous development and learning. Intel’s commitment to diversity and inclusion is evident.

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5 Ways to Make Sure You Don’t Fall off the Fast-track

Great Leadership By Dan

Like it or not, development assignments are not an excuse to under perform. As a high potential, you’re expected to have a high degree of “learning agility” and will be expected quickly climb their learning curves and nail each new assignment. Take advantage of the development support offered to you. Not really.

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5 Leadership Lessons You Can Learn from a Micro-Manager

Lead by Adventure

But I was willing to work on the things that I didn’t know, and I was committed to do whatever I needed to make things work with my boss. No matter your situation there are leadership lessons that you can learn. ” These are lessons you can learn if you give it a little thought and reflect on your experiences.