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Leadership training can have huge dividends, when it’s done right. Here are seven best practices for building a leadership development program that works.
“Team leaders who not only consider themselves ‘managers’
but ‘people developers’ can help inspire and motivate employees to grow.”
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By building a learning culture, L&D leaders can equip their organizations to adapt to a business world that is transforming before our eyes.
“Being transformation-ready doesn’t mean adopting the latest technology.
Instead, it’s about developing a learning culture that positions the entire organization to adapt to the inevitable unknowns the future will bring.”
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Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, is a programmer. When he got the idea to begin posting free online classes, he was able to get the basic infrastructure in place […]
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It would be nice if we lived in a world where we could just do a good job and bosses would pay everyone what they’re really worth, and close the […]
March is Women’s History Month, and Big Think+ is commemorating it with a collection of videos highlighting both women’s history, and the complicated choices facing women who are making history […]
Cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand says that our attitudes toward rules have a lot to do with who we are and with the type of environment we find most comfortable. She’s […]
As Chief Learning Officer at Degreed and former Chief Learning Officer at LinkedIn, Kelly Palmer has thought a lot about architecting effective learning environments for employees seeking to grow their […]
An autistic woman, Judy Singer, coined the term ‘neurodiversity’ in her 1988 thesis as a label for the unique contribution made to the world by people whose brains are wired […]
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In Shane Snow’s Big Think+ video, “Harness Your Team’s Mental Toolkit,” he begins by asserting that “two heads are better than one” is a lie. Also — and as long […]
This month’s release from Big Think+ is all about diversity and inclusion. These two intertwined objectives are on our minds a lot lately for their importance in the company cultures […]
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The first response to big, bad news is likely to be widespread panic — it’s human nature. Yet, says risk communication expert David Ropeik, you can actually strengthen a team’s […]
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Executive coach Alisa Cohn, in her Big Think+ video, “Understand Ownership and Accountability: What It Means to Be In Charge When Things Go Wrong,” uses her experience with a company […]