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

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a central role in the European Union. To ensure these essential entities continue to flourish, they require special economic and social policy considerations, namely, access to education and continuing vocational training. More »

Global Human Resources Development , Learning Technologies

Economy , E-Learning , Europe , Global Workforce Development , Latin America

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