Five Neural Leadership Practices That CEOs Can Borrow From Learning and Development Training
It’s an exciting time for brain science, which has become a source of buzz in CEO circles. As CEOs grapple with tight competition, workforce issues,...
Game Design - The Bold New Frontier of Learning and Development
As a long time video gamer and talent development professional, I’ve always been perplexed by the differences between the games I play on my PC,...
The Best Leadership Training Programs All Share a Common Goal: Improved Decision Making, Problem Solving and Collaboration
In this excerpt from his book, The Thinking Effect, Michael Vaughan, corporate leadership training expert and CEO, The Regis Company, discusses why...
Demise of the Gameophobes, Rise of Simulation Training?
A few years ago I challenged the audience at TEDx Gramercy to bring games into their lives as a way to transform the way they learn, and to avoid...
Putting the Smile Back in Learning and Development Program Measurement
As learning and development consultants, we all desire more from our measurement data, but continue to be underwhelmed by the results. Why is that?...
Can Training and Professional Development Drive Bottom Line Results?
A great deal of training and professional development does not even purport to affect bottom-line results. Many corporate education efforts have been...
Training and Professional Development in a Post-Meltdown World
The 2008 global economic meltdown was a watershed event that has transformed the corporate landscape and from which no country, company or corporate...
When It Comes To Leadership and Management Training, Your Brain Can Only Take So Much
Don't go out and buy a new day planner or learn a five-step decision-making process -- they won't work. If they did, we would all be much more...
Effective Leadership Training Means Rethinking Assessment
Dr. Paul Camp, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, who for more than thirty years has been studying the ways we learn, describes the...
Taking the Road Less Traveled: Applying Socrates’ Insight to Professional Development Training Programs
Socrates was sitting outside the gates of Athens when a man came up to him and said, “I am thinking about moving into Athens. Can you please tell me...
Play, Learn, Repeat - How Business Simulations 'Predict'
In the film Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise must save the world from total annihilation yet again. He is completely overmatched by his enemies, an alien...
Learn How to Think Not What to Think for Effective Training and Professional Development
Starting at an early age, the accepted standard both of teaching and learning focuses on what to think. In some cases, this approach proves...