Every year, studies explore the challenges and needs of CEOs around the world. And while changing economic conditions and accelerating technology have shifted leaders focus in recent years, studies show that CEOs still focus on the same objectivessales and profit. Even ... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Advanced Level Content , Competencies , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Training and Development - General

Whether you are consulting internally or externally, with a large not-for-profit or a small startup, in manufacturing or sales, there are many commonalities. There are also differences in dynamics and experiences based upon the role in which you function as a consultant... More »

Career Development

Beginner Level Content , Career Development , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Jobs , Training and Development - General

The days of informal learning being a shadowy entity unto itself are gone. Learning on-the-fly is now part of any well-balanced learning intake. As the incoming tide of informal learning advances on the tiny beach blanket of formal learning and seems likely to engulf it... More »

Career Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

Career Planning , Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning , Intermediate-level Content , Social Learning , Training and Development - General

My passionate belief has been, and is today, that leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do. Yet it is what leaders donot what leaders arethat others see and judge. So what can a leader do? Define a clear vision that has its foundation in the organizations valu... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

Beginner Level Content , Coaching and Mentoring , Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Training and Development - General

The late Peter Drucker once commented, I never predict. I simply look out the window and see what is visible but not yet seen. In the spirit of Peters remark, Lisa Shannonassociate publisher at Pfeiffer, a Wiley Imprintand I sat down in the Wiley offices in San Francisc... More »

Learning & Development

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning , Managing the Learning Function , Mobile Learning , Social Learning , Training and Development - General