It doesn't take charisma to create a highly motivating work environment. In fact, charisma is not all it is cracked up to be. It's overrated, an excellent motivator doesn't need it, and sometimes it causes more harm than good. Managers can be excellent motivators even i... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development

Career Development , Coaching and Mentoring , Leadership Development

Note: This article excerpted from Building Business Acumen for Trainers: Skills to Empower the Learning Function and is used with Permission by the Publisher, Copyright2006 John Wiley & Sons. Listening is an essential skill for selling T&D in an organization. Li... More »

Learning & Development , Sales Enablement

Beginner Level Content , Engagement

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi Implementing results-based evaluation strategies requires support from an infrastructure of diverse stakeholders with complex interactions and reporting relationships. Si... More »

Learning & Development

Business Impact , Measuring and Evaluating

In the last issue of this newsletter, we provided an overview of personality assessments. We defined what a personality assessment is and how it is used in practical ways during selection and career-development discussions. A personality assessment provides important in... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development

Assessment , Intermediate-level Content

William Horton's E-Learning by Design is meant to be read cover-to-cover. It outlines the e-learning design process "according to Horton" in Chapter 1, and then proceeds to fill in the details throughout the rest of the book. How to use the book Horton's website lists m... More »

Learning & Development

Advanced Level Content , Designing Learning , E-Learning