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If you’d like to know where American companies are spending most of their training dollars today, you’ll find out by reading the Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 Training Study. Let’s review some of the study’s findings. The Cost to Develop One Hour of Training Increased Nearly 13% between 2014 and 2015 The study found that in…
The latest issue of Nursery Management magazine, with its “Bright Future” theme, contains a smart selection of articles about the future of the plant nursery industry – which is strong, vibrant, and growing. The issue profiles a group of up-and-coming young entrepreneurs who have devoted their lives to growing and marketing plants, and who will…
You have an awful lot to teach new employees in the days and weeks after you hire them. That can make it easy to overlook the fact that some of your new hires could have a lot to teach you too, in critical areas like these: They can often provide useful real-world intelligence about potential…
Skills, Challenges, and Trends in Instructional Design, a free white paper available from The Association for Talent Development (ATD), is a must-read for everyone in the training industry. It’s the result of surveys of 1,381 training professionals that was conducted by researchers from ATD, the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), and…
Everyone who is involved in training should spend time reading the 2015-16 Towards Maturity study. This study has now been conducted for 12 years and its findings, based on surveys of 600 learning professionals and 1,600 trainees, tell us a lot about what is working well in training today and where improvements are needed….
If you are in golf course management, you know that your ultimate success depends on how well you handle all the small details that create a quality golfing experience for your patrons. Do golfers find it easy to book tee times? When they arrive, are your parking areas clean and well maintained? Are golfers greeted…
“Most executives, when asked where leadership development happens, think primarily of the classroom. However, when executives are asked what shaped them as leaders, most cite real-world, on-the-job experiences.” – From “Strategy Activation: Develop your leaders in context” by Noah Rabinowitz and Jim Aggen, Korn Ferry Even the most innovative classroom training cannot teach your company’s…
Practical leadership advice from my new book Ingaging Leadership Leaders at many companies typically use the term collaboration to describe brainstorming sessions that are held to generate ideas around a specific topic or problem. The leaders of those companies often seem to believe that effective collaboration means getting people together into the same room…
Our CEO wrote his new book Ingaging Leadership to help people improve their leadership skills and build great organizations, not to win praise. But it is still exciting to learn that readers are already achieving positive results from using the philosophy of Ingagement that Evan lays out in his book. If you don’t know…
“Managers are often ill-prepared for success in a leadership role. Many of them aren’t trained at all in how to engage, coach, or develop their teams. And if they are trained, it’s through programs that aren’t aligned with company strategy, lack the support of senior leadership, and are delivered as ‘once and done.’” –…
