Linking Performance Improvement to Business Strategies

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Clare Novak

Knowing the company’s goals is the first step to building your case for performance improvement programs. More »

Get Over It

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Peter Garber

Organizations must ensure that all of their systems and practices support the same overall objective. Without this alignment, one part of the organization’s efforts may nullify the efforts of another part of the organization. When change is introduced, this alignm... More »

Engineers and Soft Skills

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Kyle Freedman

It is hard to teach soft skills to engineers and other technical professionals. More »

Book Review: A Diverse Way of Approaching Diversity Training

Paul Signorelli

Todd Pittinsky, in Us + Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference, offers a different view of how to deliver effective learning opportunities on the theme of diversity. The fact that he proposes an “us plus them” approach rather than what he cites as th... More »

New Research Supports Manager-As-Coach

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Sewon Kim

Emerging research that supports the impact of managerial coaching behavior hints that the support for and popularity of workplace coaching is much more than a “flavor of the month” approach to managing and management development. In fact, newly conducted res... More »