Recently added articles from T + D:
Responsibility Equals Credibility
Feb 01, 2009; ... This current economic crisis is the direct result of irresponsible banking-or the lack of corporate social responsibility-by financial institutions in the United States and around the globe. Just think where we'd be now if some of those companies hadn't gotten greedy and compromised good banking ...
ASTD.ORG
Feb 01, 2009; ... TOP PODCASTS 1| Organizational Culture (March 2008) Workplace learning and performance professionals understand that culture can easily limit much of what we need to do. But, because culture is hard to pin down in practical terms, let alone to effectively change for the better, ...
A New Focus on Performance
Feb 01, 2009; ... The current economic situation is unprecedented. And while some organizations focus on survival, many are figuring out how to thrive regardless of the economic cycle. Most successful business leaders realize that talent is the most important competitive advantage in our knowledge economy and a ...
Culture Cloud
Feb 01, 2009; ... Organizations struggle to define and capitalize on corporate culture. By Michael Laff It's no small irony that for something considered as vital as corporate culture, few people within an organization can agree on a definition. The term "corporate culture" sounds hopelessly ...
You Snooze, You Learn
Feb 01, 2009; ... When an employee is faced with an important decision, she is sometimes advised to "sleep on it" to be able to weigh her options more carefully and clearly the next day. As it turns out, sleep is a useful ally to the brain when one is trying to learn new skills. A University of ...
High Potential Fallout
Feb 01, 2009; ... Whether the company calls it building bench strength, identifying high potentials, or something else, talent management is quickly discarded when short-term priorities take center stage. Now as many organizations are just trying to stay afloat, developing high-potential performers is a ...
Game Incentive
Feb 01, 2009; ... Imagine driving to work on a Monday morning, lost in a rush hour traffic daze. Suddenly, your mind is roused from its fog as you recall that your game account is 100 tokens richer from the sales goal you met the previous Friday. The first item on your daily agenda: win enough game points ...
Money Matters, But Training Doesn't?
Feb 01, 2009; ... Companies plan to bail out on training for finance and accounting in the midst of the economic bailout. During these troubled economic times, one might predict that organizations would want their accounting and finance employees to brush up on their knowledge and stay sharp. However, ...
LIVE and DIRECT
Feb 01, 2009; ... Videoconferencing tools put trainers on the road to distance learning solutions. Have you ever taken a different route than planned, only to discover the drive was far more rewarding? On a trip halfway across America, we took one route to reach the West Coast and found it boring ...
It's [Not] the Technology, Stupid
Feb 01, 2009; ... While new technologies in your blended learning approach can be a great asset, it pays to be mindful of common pitfalls. By Nanette Miner and Jennifer Hofmann If your organization is already using classroom, synchronous, and asynchronous content to some degree, it might seem a snap to ...
Triple Bottom Line
Feb 01, 2009; ... Creating Corporate Social Responsibility That Makes Sense On a Saturday afternoon, workers at the California plant of Interface Carpet don jumpsuits, head to a local landfill, dive into the refuse, and retrieve garbage. Employees aren't searching for lost currency, just discarded ...
Reading the World
Feb 01, 2009; ... Acquiring Cultural Synergetic Intelligence in Today's Global Economy Despite the opportunities a flattened world has given us when it comes to technology, global executives have taken on new roles that require new ways of thinking. Unforeseen challenges of aligning virtual teams, leading ...
Coaching Teams for Emotional Intelligence in Your Diverse Workplace
Feb 01, 2009; ... Teams as well as individuals need to develop emotional intelligence skills that help enhance teamwork, improve group dynamics, and ultimately, increase performance. Stimulate this development by using these activities with your team. Affirmative introspection - taking a look ...
TANGIBLE RETURN ON INVESTMENT: INTEGRATING LEARNING TO REACH DESIRED RESULTS
Feb 01, 2009; ... One organization's experience illustrates how learning initiative design influences outcomes, while making the case for continuing professional development even in a tough economy. Bachrach & Associates Inc. (BAI), a professional development firm for financial professionals, recently ...
LEAVING NOTHING TO CHANCE
Feb 01, 2009; ... A WELL-DEFINED TALENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGY ASSURES THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE IN THE RIGHT JOBS WHEN AND WHERE THE BUSINESS NEEDS THEM. By Lois Webster A company's health has always depended on the ability of its employees to work in concert to achieve company goals. In the past, whether ...
DAVID COOPERRIDER
Feb 01, 2009; ... Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University Chairman and Founder, Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit Cleveland, Ohio David Cooperrider is best known for his theory and practice of appreciative inquiry as it ...
Using Risk to Your Advantage
Feb 01, 2009; ... Big risks can mean reaping big rewards. But they also demand letting go of the fear of losing. THE RESULT IS PREDICTABLE. HOST PEOPLE SEEK OUT LOW-RISK, LOWREWARD OPPORTUNITIES. AND WHEN THEY THINK THEY HAVE FOUND THE HOLY GRAIL- A LOW-RISK OPPORTUNITY WITH HIGH REWARDS, EVERYONE RUSHES ...
CATS: The Nine Lives of Innovation
Feb 01, 2009; ... A NEW BREED CATS: The Nine Lives of Innovation By Stephen C. Lundin (McGraw-Hill, 192 pp., $19.95) Reviewed by Nancy Seebert At the mere mention of the book Fish, there are likely to be only a few individuals in HR, training, or organization development who are unfamiliar with ...
Mistaken Metrics
Feb 01, 2009; ... It is better for an organization to have no outcomes than to measure the wrong outcomes. The following story was described by Joe Willmore, a Northern Virginia-based performance consultant. CLIENT* An appliance company call center PROBLEM* The organization ...
In Search of Leadership: How the Great Leaders Answer the Question "Why Lead?"
Feb 01, 2009; ... In Search of Leadership: How the Great Leaders Answer the Question "Why Lead?" By Phil Harkins and Phil Swift (McGraw-Hill, 300 pp., $24.95) This book is a collection of stories that explore leadership through an impressive variety of lenses. With subjects ranging from world leaders to ...