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Business Dynamics

The Best Leadership Development Programs Rely on Systems Thinking

A system is a collection of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent parts that form a complex and unified whole that has a specific purpose....

Business Dynamics

For Better Professional Development Training Programs, Understand Credit Card Debt

Continuing the ongoing thread on systems thinking, I thought it would be relevant to focus on two extremely common challenges that are frequently...

Business Dynamics

To Be Effective, Leadership Development Consultants Must Be Systems Thinkers

As you know if you’ve read any of my recent posts, systems thinking balances critical thinking and creative thinking by providing context and...

Human Dynamics

Leadership Development Consulting Firms Should Stop Interviewing and Start Engaging

I spoke to a friend recently who told me that he was interviewed by 25 people over a six month period in order to get a senior level position at a...

ALI, Assessments, & Analytics

Learning and Development Training Needs a Good Dose of Healthy Skepticism

Given my recent focus on the value of balancing creative and critical thinking in corporate leadership training, I thought it would be interesting to...

ALI, Assessments, & Analytics

Simulation Training Isn't a Right vs. Left Brain Thing

My last two posts have focused on critical and creative thinking separately. But how do the two work together to improve performance, create better...

ALI, Assessments, & Analytics

Advice for Leadership Development Consultants From...Matisse?

Over the past several years, the Regis leadership development consulting firm has spent a lot of time helping leaders of global organizations become...

ALI, Assessments, & Analytics

Innovation’s Role in Learning and Development Training

In my last post, I touched on the important role of critical thinking, particularly in the context of maximizing the effectiveness and output of...

ALI, Assessments, & Analytics

For More Effective Leadership Training, Summon Your Inner Child

In previous posts, I’ve described Core Abilities that shape effective leadership training, including critical thinking. Two of the most prominent...

Business Dynamics

What's the Coolest Learning and Talent Development Innovation You've Seen Recently?

It was the beginning of the third futurecasting event sponsored by our new organization Talent Development 2025. Stavros, our facilitator, was...

ALI, Assessments, & Analytics

Do Training and Professional Development Programs Focus Enough on Critical Thinking?

According to a 1997 report from Idaho, thousands of American deaths have been attributed to the chemical compound dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO), mainly...

ALI, Assessments, & Analytics

Business Simulations for More Purposeful Thinking

About ten years ago, my colleagues and I realized that our challenge as learning and development consultants was to develop a technology that would...