Aggressively Solve Problems

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Maxine Kamin

People who excel at their jobs solve problems. Nothing is more indicative of success in the workforce than solving problems. As Ron Willingham states in Integrity Service, In a real sense, each of us controls our success level by the problems we choose to solve. ... More »

Why Organizations Use Competencies

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William J. Rothwell

Knowledge of competencies and competency modeling is increasingly important for workplace learning professionals tasked with learning results. Most front-line learning and performance professionals and their managers have encountered competencies or competency modeling ... More »

Why Organizations Need Social Learning

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Laurent Pacalin

The world has changed people now live and work in a world where Google gives the answers, where a mobile phone is the lifeline to the Web and to your GPS location, and where Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter link people to each other in their own way. By leveraging these ... More »

Emerging Talent: Will They Be Going, Going, Gone?

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Frederick A. Miller

Who will lead us through the next 30 years? The answer may be no oneand that leadership vacuum may come sooner than we think. This is not the way massive societal change is supposed to work. Typically, people begin to grapple with change, then leaders emerge and flock t... More »

Uncommon Results: A Practice of Positive Politics

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Nan S. Russell

I once had a boss who informed me there was no such thing as company politics. At the time, I decided that depended on whether you were the person wielding power or the one influenced by it. For most people, self-serving antics, sabotaging behaviors, information hoardin... More »