• How Do People Learn Best?

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    Top MBA programs don’t load their students down with books of rules and abstract theories that may or may not have any bearing on the real world. Instead, their central tool is the case study method: real-life examples with all the complicated push and pull of the actual business world. Case study ...

    How Do People Learn Best?

  • Inside the Learning Brain

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    Sophisticated brain-imaging tools allow researchers to study the brain and revolutionize the understanding of how we learn. As a result, today we know more about learning than ever before, which provides great opportunities for training and development professionals to harness new insights and apply ...

    Inside the Learning Brain

  • Practicing Mindful Leadership

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    During the past decade, the number of leaders indicating that job stress is a major stress in their lives has doubled. The U.S. Department of Health attributes 70 percent of work-related physical and mental complaints to stress. And health insurance claims related to stress are estimated to cost org ...

    Practicing Mindful Leadership

  • Moving Employees from ‘Have To’ to ‘Want To’

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    It’s not uncommon for executives to believe that they have a positive work culture, yet in reality, most still have problems typical of a negative reinforcement management style. The misinformed executive typically arrives at this conclusion because company performance is good, they are profitable ...

    Moving Employees from ‘Have To’ to ‘Want To’

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Measuring Learning’s Impact: Stop Making Excuses and Just Get Started

By David Vance

Stop making excuses for not measuring the impact of learning and just get started. This was the consensus among the panelists at a recent Skillsoft Perspectives Conference in Orlando, Fla. The panelists were Laurie Bassi of McBassi & Associates, Jay Jamrog of i4cp, Kendall Kerekes of KnowledgeAdvisors, Patti Phillips of ROI Institute and ... Read more

Infuse Instructional Design with Practical Project Management Principles

By Allan Harris

I was fooling myself. I truly believed my training and development projects were successful. However, "successful" meant something different for me than it did for my sponsors. I missed a few deadlines or went over budget, but as long as I met my learning objectives I didn't concern myself. It wasn't working. Later, I discovered project ... Read more

Wal-Mart Drafts Leaders for Military-Style Training

By Garry Kranz

Attending Wal-Mart Leadership Academy rekindled Tracey Lloyd's memories of boot camp. Although hardly dangerous, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s training program for top leaders has a military air that gets participants "thinking two ranks above their level," says Lloyd, a retired Army captain and Bronze Star recipient who joined the Bentonville, ... Read more

5 Ways to Spot an Emotionally Intelligent Leader

By Harvey Deutschendorf

Research has shown us that more than 90 perecent of top leadership performers have a high amount of emotional intelligence or EI. The higher up the ladder that leaders are, the more people they impact and their EI becomes increasingly important. The person at the top sets the atmosphere that permeates the organization, including the emotional ... Read more

Putting Out Fires: Picking Up Someone Else’s E-Learning Project

By Joe Ganci and Jennifer DeVries

As eLearning professionals, we have found that modifying someone else’s work is one of the hardest things clients ask us to do. If you’ve had to modify other people’s work a few times, you know what we mean. This is the first in a series of four articles in which we offer some tips about picking up other people’s eLearning ... Read more

3 eSteps to Lasting Behavioral Change

By Mukta Raut

These are demanding times for eLearning courses. Any eLearning course designed for in-house corporate training programs must meet several difficult constraints on a training efficacy checklist. The course must:  Meet an ROI threshold; make valuable use of learners’ time; disseminate information on subjects ranging from hard facts about policies ... Read more

With Social Media, The More The Better

By Cliff Stevenson

One of the more common misconceptions when speaking about innovation is to pigeonhole it as solely new products or breakthrough innovation — that “aha” moment. However, a cursory glance at the history of invention shows that most of the products people use today are the results of creative individuals building upon work that had already been ... Read more