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Following Your Own Learning Programs
Learning leaders may be doing their organizations an injustice by not spending the same effort and time educating themselves that they spend educating their workforce.
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How to Keep Gen Y Tuned In
I have a running list of Gen Y stereotypes that bother me, and this week I think the chart topper is saying millennials have short attention spans and demand instant results. There’s a notion that millennials are like gnats, and if only they would sit still and dive deep into research and projects the way…
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‘Be Abnormal’ and Other Leadership Lessons From the Pittsburgh Pirates
Bill Treasurer, author of “Leaders Open Doors” and chief encouragement officer of Giant Leap Consulting, spent two days with the Pittsburgh Pirates during spring training. Although he was hired to help them with their leadership, he came away with fi…
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Are Professional Certifications Valuable?
The professional certification market is vast, and companies invest billions in it every year. But are they really getting a good return on their investment? According to International Data Corp., by the end of 2015, the IT education and certification market is estimated to reach nearly $27 billion, so there is no shortage of certifications…
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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?
One of the major effects of the recession was a lack of investment in developing business skills for younger, midlevel workers. Today we’re faced with a serious talent gap and, with the improving economy, greater difficulty in recruiting highly skilled employees to fill those positions. As organizations realize the depth of their talent predicament, many…
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Developing the Next Generation
An employee’s ability to learn on the job while simultaneously being selected, measured and developed as a future leader can be a headache for businesses. Every company claims it plans for the future, but the reality is that the expertise and leadership that drives it usually slip away with the best intentions of having learning…
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PRESS RELEASE
Record Number of Workforce Development Leaders Attend Spring 2014 Chief Learning Officer Symposium
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Gen Y: Big Demands and High Expectations
Earlier this year Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. released its third annual Millennial Survey, and at first the findings worried me. According to the survey, 70 percent of millennials across the globe “reject” what traditionally organized business has …

















