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Boosting Productivity Through Apprenticeship
There are approximately 17 million people working in American manufacturing today. Ten percent of them are highly skilled metalworkers who perform stamping and machining operations, including machine building, service and repair, dye making and forming me
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Skills for Tomorrow’s Leaders
The enterprise education industry has hundreds, perhaps thousands of answers to all manner of learning and development questions. E-learning and online learning provide point-of-contact information in a cost-effective and easy-to-update format. Classroom
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Change Management: Resilience Training
Smart businesses know what changes they need to make, as well as how to achieve them. A systematic and disciplined process to address resistance builds workforce resilience, allowing changes to occur seamlessly.
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Beyond the Performance Review
In my town, there’s a lawn service that comes by three or four times a year to examine the grass for diseases, apply a little fertilizer and some other treatments to keep things going, and after about 10 minutes, head off to the next lawn. This also is how performance evaluations are generally done in…
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How to Talk to the ‘Big Dogs’
There’s a way to talk to the senior executives in the boardroom that gets results—and there’s a way to get asked to leave. The CEO and members of the board aren’t likely to clue the inexperienced in on the proper way to handle them in a conference, but th
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Delphi: Driving Performance With Teams
Although it’s only six years old, Delphi, a provider of mobile electronics and transportation components and systems technology, has nearly a century of history behind it. The organization was part of automobile manufacturer General Motors until it was spun off into a separate business in 1999 with the slogan “Driving automotive technology where it’s never…
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Bob Mann: Harmonizing Learning at UBS
UBS harmonizes its multiple lines of business through strategic objectives of client focus, entrepreneurial leadership and organic growth. Bob Mann, global head of learning and development, makes sure the workforce stays in tune.
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Leader as Learner—Frame, Sense, Reflect, Drive Action
It is easy to recognize leadership in military situations: A skilled commander is able—with the help of others—to define the mission, size up the situation, identify the best of the alternative actions and engage forces effectively. The same is true for a seasoned physician leading a surgical team in a life-or-death procedure. It also is…












