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Even Standard IT Can Boost Creativity At Work

The Horizons Tracker

When it comes to innovation, it’s tempting to think that the latest and greatest technologies are required to facilitate the creative process. What’s more, if these employees are recognized for their efforts and encouraged to develop their skills then their innovative output rises yet further. ” Common tech. .

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Mentoring Benefits Mentors As Well As Mentees

The Horizons Tracker

There is also scant recognition of the skills and knowledge flowing from the mentee to the mentor. Part of the problem is that people assume that learning only flows upward, but the research shows that when mentors believe that knowledge can flow both ways, they are often more engaged and effective mentors. .

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Fusing Artificial Intelligence and Learning & Development

Experience to Lead

As AI rapidly grows more sophisticated, building new skills and competencies through L&D will become even more important for human workers and organizations alike. This is a problem that has yet to be solved in the AI industry, and will need to be monitored by L&D workers if they choose to create with this technology.

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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. Hiring your way out of this skills gap isn’t a sustainable approach, so organizations need to get better at upskilling the workforce.

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For the L of It: Living and Leading Above the Line

The Practical Leader

Speed Traps: Lead Smarter, Not Faster I once sat through an author’s frantic, high-energy presentation on knowledge management. He deluged us with a flood of statistics showing how the world’s knowledge was growing at mind-blowing rates. Mastering or Mastered by Your Technology? That’s unavoidable.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures.

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey…. Gayathri Moosad picks 20 Essential Leadership Skills for us to consider. and ponder The Pride Paradox.