The Kept-On Workforce of 2009: Building Options or Bummed Out?

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Beverly Kaye

"Waiting for the other shoe to drop" is often the refrain after the dust of downsizing settles. Those employees who have managed to retain their jobs often find that they feel worse about their work lives than those who were forced out. Just as laid-off workers are stru... More »

Help Wanted: “T-Shaped” Skills to Meet 21st Century Needs

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Paul Harris

A handful of students within the business and engineering schools at San Jose State University in California are headed for careers in service-related industries with an expanded set of marketable skills. A specially devised curriculum shared by the two schools includes... More »

Learning Gets Social

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Tony Bingham

The learning profession has a history of dancing around the subject of informal learning. You might think, "We've been talking about it forever and have even dabbled in it. Our worlds aren't crumbling. I am really busy and don't have the time or the energy to get involv... More »

Harvesting Tomorrow’s Leaders: Lessons From the Front Line

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Bonnie Hagemann

Headlines, such as "The Global Economic Crisis," "Inside the Financial Meltdown," "Housing Market Heads for Bottom," and "No End in Sight for Layoffs," have dominated the news and our psyche lately. For many organizations, survival strategies and tactics are the order o... More »

Wanted: Leaders With ESP for Tough Times

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Beverly Kaye

Throw out the crystal ball, the Vulcan mind meld, and any other kind of image the term "ESP" conjures up. Lately, we've all been talking and reading about one type of ESP that politicians and the federal government have thrown to the public and private sectors as a life... More »