Manage Up, and Take Charge of Your Workday

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Bruce Tulgan

Are you spending too much time dealing with your bosses? It might seem like that. But the reality is very likely the opposite: In nine out of 10 cases, according to 17 years of research by RainmakerThinking Inc., the problem is not that employees are spending too much t... More »

Are You Stoking Your Organization’s Middle Management Engine?

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Lisa Haneberg

I feel for the modern-day middle manager and have great respect for those who take on this tough role. Middle managers are the engines that drive strategic implementation and create the momentum for how work gets done. They are pulled in a million different directions a... More »

Making Training Strategic

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Preston Brown

Merriam-Webster defines the term strategy as a careful plan or method; a clever stratagem; the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal. To make training more strategic within government agencies, it must b... More »

Integrated Learning in New York State Government

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Nancy Nee

From the moment students start elementary school all the way through college, they are taught concepts mainly through verbal instruction that teachers expect will later be applied in the real world. However, in school, teachers ... More »