Resilience is a very hot subject at the present time, whether we talk about it at a personal or organizational level. For most, the term refers simply to the ability to stay afloat in rather adverse c...
Over a decade ago, Professor Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School set out to study the learning organization and what could be done so companies would learn better from their experiences. In her o...
Leadership was challenging even before the year 2020 surprised us all and turned the world upside down. Since March, businesses and individuals have struggled to make the best of an otherwise bad situ...
Stories are almost as old as humanity itself, and their role in history has always been elemental. Recently they have been artfully exploited by everyone from big Hollywood studios, multi-national adv...
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. — Robert McKee Humans need stories to understand a...
Coaching is a powerful leadership tool and an asset to any organization. The key is to manage to incorporate it into the corporate culture rather than using it as a purely conceptual thing that looks ...
There are a few over-used terms that find their way into any organizational development plan – one of them is coaching. Everyone has a general idea about what it entails (the noun itself is rather sel...
Employee development is crucial for any organization as it is a sure way of moving forward, getting better results, and maintaining a good market share. Corporate training has come a long way from its...
The need to train today’s corporate workforce did not diminish but grew with the sudden switch to home offices instead of traditional workspaces. People no longer have the opportunity to meet in perso...
Nobody knows exactly how long the advised (or mandatory) work from home orders will last but it’s pretty clear for everyone they are here now. The traffic on Zoom has grown exponentially this year, wi...
Have you learned anything new today? The odds are that if you are reading this, you have internet access, so you must have come across at least one piece of new information, a video, or a short post b...
I recently had a conversation with some of my fellow learning specialists on how to carry training further as the current work from home situation seems to be prolonging for an indefinite time. Severa...
When we talk about trends, we usually think about fashion, travel destinations, or healthy life choices. The latter seems to really have become popular, some advocating dietary restrictions (such as s...
Transformation is something that learning specialists and instructional designers have had to deal with for the better part of the last two decades. The face of corporate training has changed so many ...
When it comes to e-learning, gamification is presented as probably the most significant thing that has happened in the field in a long time. Games are fun, engaging, and can hold the users’ attention ...
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) have become a very valued commodity today. With so much going on and so many niches becoming widely known and adopted as the norm, it’s important to have somebody who rea...
