Calling All Trainers: We Are Learners Too!
Consider me your accountability coach. I’m here to challenge your thinking . . . specifically, to challenge you to give yourself the same energy you give to your learners.
Learning & Development
5 Tips for Training the Untrainable
Your materials are prepped. You’ve practiced the content inside and out. You’re ready to deliver a best-in-class training program. No matter how prepared we may feel, our profession is guaranteed to present us with the unexpected. So how do we pivot when faced with learners who don’t see value in the program, who don’t buy in to this timely investment? How do we train the untrainable?
Preparing Talent for the Future
Many forces and mega-trends are re-shaping the way L&D and talent development creates and delivers business value. Economic instability, technological advancements like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and geopolitical changes have encouraged businesses to look beyond their traditional boundaries for opportunity and growth. Innovation…
Signs of a Learning Culture
By Stephen Gill How do you know your organization has a learning culture? What do you see people doing? How are people learning? While a learning culture is an environment that’s always in development, certain signs indicate that you are making progress. Leaders are communicating…
Are Your Future Leaders Hiding in Plain Sight?
By Laura Francis In DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2018 report, researchers describe some of the top challenges CEOs say they face right now when developing leaders. At the top of their list is developing next-generation leaders, with 64 percent of CEOs reporting this as a concern, followed…
The power of assessment – HRTV: Interview with James Raley from Cubiks
Whatever you do, wherever you operate in the world, Cubiks adds real depth to their clients talent management, assessment and development processes. With a versatile portfolio of ground-breaking solutions, global experience and local knowledge, Cubiks helps clients better understand their people, predict performance and achieve great…
3 Ways Leaders Can Create a Shared Learning Culture
By Dan Schawbel The biggest challenge for today’s professionals is to stay relevant in a world that is constantly changing. The average half-life of a learned skill is five years, and that number will continue to decline over the next several years. We can no…
It Was Worth to Sleep 5 Hours
By Mehmet Baha As soon as I arrived to the conference venue, I was welcomed by a lady in charge of VIP and speakers. She seemed happy to see me & asked me enthusiastically if I knew in which seminar room my talk would take…
HRTV: An Interview with Taner Topcu, Director of Academic Zone at RAKEZ
Taner Topcu, Director of Academic Zone at RAKEZ (the leading government authority operating in Ras Al Khaimah) explains the quality assurance decision making for a world-class investment destination. RAKEZ is a world-class Authority established to consolidate Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone (RAK FTZ) and…
From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
By Stephen Gill Companies have long thought of employee learning as something that happens in a classroom, delivered by a trainer away from the worksite, with content and activities selected by an instructional designer. Managers, as well as trainers, have come to believe that good…