Tag Archives: Employee development

How to teach employees skills they don’t know they lack

By: Ulrick Juul Christensen September 29, 2017 Source: https://www.hbr.org After spending billions of dollars a year on corporate learning, U.S. companies probably assume that their employees have the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their jobs. The employees themselves probably think they’re prepared, too, having gone through these exercises. But according to data from industries including academia, health […]
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Seven tips to clinch that promotion at work

By: Avery Blank June 09, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org   Are you up for a promotion, and it’s a crowded field? In situations where there are many people vying for that one opportunity, the human instinct is to see it as a competition, the survival of the fittest. It’s not. It is not about competition. Don’t […]
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Seven tips to clinch that promotion at work

By: Avery Blank June 09, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org Are you up for a promotion, and it’s a crowded field? In situations where there are many people vying for that one opportunity, the human instinct is to see it as a competition, the survival of the fittest. It’s not. It is not about competition. Don’t try […]
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5 secrets to coaching your employees to greatness (Entrepreneur)

By Renee Robertson Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247573 June 27, 2015 No matter what role we find ourselves in — entrepreneur, executive, sales and marketing professional, to name just a few — we are in constant motion, reacting to the day’s events, feeling the pressure to perform and always thinking about results. These are not all bad behaviors to have, […]
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6 myths about empowering employees (Harvard Business Review)

By David Marquet Source: https://hbr.org   May 27, 2015 When Dr. Stephen R. Covey visited the nuclear powered submarine I commanded, the USS Santa Fe, he told me it was the “most empowering workplace he’d ever seen.” It was a bit ironic for me, because I’m sour on the word empowerment and I’m sour on empowerment […]
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Who Treats Their Workers Best? / Human Capital report

Switzerland is first, Yemen last and Northern Europe the top region in a new evaluation of how nations foster their work forces. GIBS Information Centre / GIBSIC‘s insight: Global job problems  –   The project stemmed from conversations about the global jobs problem — particularly youth unemployment and regional skills gaps — and how countries […]
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