Faculty Obligation: Preparing Students for Leadership

Robert Toronto

As faculty charged with teaching organizational behavior, leadership and organizational change, our obligation goes far beyond the academic.  In my view, we have an obligation to train graduate students in the art and practice of leadership. More »

Think Win-Win

Nandi Shareef

One of my greatest life-changing experiences was taking the Lee Ross-facilitated course, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Signature. Those three days in 2012 were literally like the first three days of my new life. During that time, I learned so much about myself, my... More »

So Many Programs, So Little Time: Tackling the Process of Finding the Right School

Jenn Oribello

In my last blog, I talked about my decision-making journey to pursue my master’s degree. This blog details how staying organized, thinking critically about what was important to me, and reaching out to faculty and students helped make the process rewarding and pro... More »

The Hare…The Turtoise…or the Hartoise

Nandi Shareef

From a practitioner’s viewpoint, the lesson in this post is for you to seek win-win situations when working with co-workers and managing up with supervisors. From a scholar’s perspective, your task is to ingest information until you’re 85 percent full ... More »

Developing an HRD Internship Program for Undergraduate Students

Tomika W. Greer

Last semester, I conducted the first internship class for the HRD undergraduate students at my university. Our undergraduate program is just under three years old, and we finally had students approaching graduation and in need of the required internship.  More »