We seem to live (and I cannot stress enough the word “seem”) in the Golden Age of productivity, both in our personal and professional lives. Just a quick scroll on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter and ...
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...
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 ...
A version of this post was originally published on October 19, 2020, in HR news. Covid-19 has transformed the way businesses operate today, forcing many to adopt more agile and remote working practice...
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...
The world of work has been forever changed this year due to the pandemic, pushing companies to quickly implement remote work practices. While maybe a few months back, we may have thought that this is ...
When it comes to recruiting for executive positions, ideally, it all goes down to finding the right person for the job, or that “perfect fit”. Especially when you recruit for a top position, this idea...
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...
More businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on their employees working away from the office, especially in recent months. While remote work benefits are undeniable, having a dispersed remote tea...
Customer engagement is a key element for the success of any training program and training company. Some people feel that they are stuck in a rut while doing their daily tasks at work, so uninteresting...
A version of this post was originally published on September 8, 2020, in Training Journal. Remote employee training is a hot topic right now, as a direct consequence of the global health crisis. Even ...
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...
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...
There’s a rather famous phrase that comes to mind when thinking about the current global situation: “May you live in interesting times”. It is famously misinterpreted as the translation of a Chinese c...
At its core, training is all about the transfer of knowledge from the trainer or instructional designer to the learner. While it sounds simple on the surface, the training process is anything but. Cre...
