Daring to Care

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Juana Llorens

If the recent debate over fixing the U.S. healthcare system has done anything, it has helped to reveal some of the complexities underlying the delivery of cost-efficient, high-quality, patient-focused care. For learning professionals at hospitals and other healthcare or... More »

Critical Self-Reflection: A Primer For Leadership Coaches

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Mike MacPherson

For the last 20 years, there has been exponential growth in the number of leadership coaches in corporations and political organizations. The job of leadership coaches is to work with leaders to help them think through leadership and organizational issues and to hold le... More »

There Is a Lot More to Training Than Training

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Ara Bouloutian

Those dedicated to the training function work energetically to help people develop and improve skills for the purpose of optimizing performance. However, no matter how hard anyone works at training, very often, the expectation of viewing significant behavior change and ... More »

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 »

Shifting the Shape of Mentoring

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Laura Francis

Mentoring for the masses. The free exchange of knowledge. Open learning connections. These concepts thrive as realities at Rockwell Collins, a communication and aviation electronics solutions company. "We want mentoring to be available to everyone in our organization," ... More »