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Leadership Development Training Programs Aren't Natural

In my last post, I touched on the brain’s ability to adapt based on an individual’s experiences. Daniel Coyle, the author of The Talent Code,...

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Case Study - Driving Collaboration and Elevating Business Acumen

Several years ago, my colleagues and I were asked to design a business simulation based learning and development training program for a multinational...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Case Study: Embracing a Changing Industry Through Effective Leadership Training

Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to recent news knows that the US life sciences and healthcare ecosystem is undergoing massive change...

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Professional Development Training Programs Often Overlook Two Main Thinking Paradigms

As I’ve noted in previous posts, creating hundreds of professional development training programs over the past two decades has led to the conclusion...

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Using Business Performance Analytics to Identify Value Workers

Over the course of one hundred business simulations, my team and I documented patterns of thought that helped us identify individuals we call Value...