Career Development
3 Unusual Skills for Your Project Management Toolkit
Want to run your next project smoothly, with great teamwork and a low risk of failure? Everyone tells you to work on your leadership, organization, and communication skills to get the job done right. But there are three ingredients nobody talks about that you really need to be a successful project manager: guts, compassion, and cat wrangling (being able to focus distracted people on a single aim).
Read More »
January 28, 2016
No Comments
Learning Effectiveness
Why Corporate Training Fails (and What You Can Do About It)
We’ve got some astoundingly bad news: 90% of what employees learn in corporate training is going to vanish the second they walk out of the classroom (or log out of the LMS).
Read More »
January 25, 2016
No Comments
Organizational Development
4 New Year’s Resolutions that Will Make You a More Effective Leader
[feat-img-left] In 2016, resolve to be a more effective leader by trying out these four practices: Pause more often. When it feels as though demands
Read More »
January 25, 2016
No Comments
Workplace Issues
Conflict Management for Leaders
While we may wish for our organizations to run in perfect harmony, the truth is that a diversity of voices will inevitably give rise to conflict. And that’s not always a bad thing—in fact, conflict management isn’t simply about nipping disagreements in the bud. It’s about minimizing the negative impact of conflict (lower employee engagement and morale, decreased productivity) while drawing out the positive aspects (generating new ideas, creative problem-solving, opportunities for growth).
Read More »
January 25, 2016
No Comments
Instructional Design
5 eLearning Habits to Break Now
You know successful eLearning when you see it—but when a course flops, you might find yourself wondering what went wrong. Many course failures are not due to bad designers so much as designers who have developed a number of short-cut habits along the way.
Read More »
January 25, 2016
No Comments
Instructional Design
4 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom
Social media is not just for fun anymore—it has become a powerful instrument for teaching, enhancing instructor impact in both eLearning and classroom-based environments. In fact 41% of instructors report using social media as a teaching tool.
Read More »
January 25, 2016
No Comments
Share it
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email