It’s clearer now, perhaps more than ever, that traditional organizational training is ineffective. The traditional training approach is – write a book, start a training company, build learning that believes the model is the answer, and then require participants to...
Successful learning in the workplace requires learning solutions that not only include all the right ingredients but also use them effectively. This article delves into what it takes to cook up a good learning strategy. Good cooking is like good learning in that both...
When it comes to ensuring that a group makes the best decision, the conventional wisdom is to have someone play the role of “devil’s advocate.” The devil’s advocate role within the group decision-making process requires a team member to express a contrarian opinion in...
What does resilience mean to you? In this post, I share what resilience means to me and how I coach clients to cultivate resilience to meet challenges when the unexpected happens. I just finished reading Option B, a book that Sheryl Sandberg wrote with...
Everyone likes a good change model, especially me. I’ve been guilty of buying into the fallacy that change models perpetuate: it will all be okay. That’s what change models do: they address our emotional need for certainty or security. The models tell us (and we...
