Are leaders born or made? In 2006, Warren Bennis said, "The most dangerous myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership, that people have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense. Leaders are made rather than born." Daniel Go... More »

Learning & Development

Coaching and Mentoring , Curriculum Alignment , Delivering Training , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Training and Development - General

Today's methods of conducting business impede employee productivity. Many organizations operate with incredibly high expectations for creating quality deliverables in an unreasonably short period of time. Employees are expected, or even required, to work long hours with... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Workforce Development

Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Training and Development - General

Thirty years ago, a high-potential manager in a training class at General Electric's corporate university listened as my father, Ned Herrmann, then head of GE's management education, discussed research he was developing on how the brain affects day-to-day operations. St... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Training and Development - General , Trends

Findings from the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and the Institute for Corporate Productivity's (i4cp) study, The Value of Evaluation, highlight that progress is being made in measurement practices, as the pursuit of excellent learning evaluation... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development

Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating