How to Maintain a Learning Organization in a Pandemic
Time for a Time Out The pandemic has caused a lot of stress, worry, and uncertainty that is now being magnified by the delta strain. There have also been furloughs…
Time for a Time Out The pandemic has caused a lot of stress, worry, and uncertainty that is now being magnified by the delta strain. There have also been furloughs…
The New Hire Experience Imagine that you’re a new hire. You come to your first day without knowing where to go or who to see- and you’re left alone for…
“I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.” Debbie Ford New Reality, New Values The Barrett Values Center…
Five years ago, Wakefield Research conducted an online survey of more than 500 middle managers in a variety of companies with more than 500 employees to determine challenges and opportunities…
“Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills.’ They might be skills, but they’re not soft.” Seth Godin A lot has been written about the stress, anxiety and uncertainty plaguing employees as…
In a recent webinar titled Learning How to Learn, Kelly Palmer stated that it is necessary to go through the learning loop to build skills. She described the learning loop…
Vicky was a rising star. After a few short years in the operations department, she had the best skills on the team. When the manager of her section retired, it…
Education scholar John Dewey came up with the concept of collateral learning, where we learn from how we learn as well as from what we are being taught. Collateral learning…
New managers are too often set up to fail. They are typically high performing employees who excel in their technical knowledge. They are suddenly plunged into a new managerial role…
Employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Why? There are so many reasons. They don’t feel appreciated. They don’t feel respected. They don’t see how they fit in the organization.…