Training Improves Collective Efficacy and Performance

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Carol Decker

As HR personnel continue to identify what impact training has on the success of organizations, the term efficacy plays a role. Weve understood the term to refer to ones confidence level to perform. When determining such levels, we are often faced with only individual le... More »

Teaching Not-for-Profits to Fish with HPI

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Patricia Radakovich

Human performance improvement (HPI) is a field that is generally applied in business. Most of the time, practitioners are external consultants, but there are some internal positions as well. Rarely do you see an HPI practitioner work for a not-for-profit, however, becau... More »

The Naked Consultant

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Patrick Lencioni

In the late 1990s, I helped start a management consulting firm called The Table Group. which provides a variety of services to a wide range of clients in just about every respectable industry imaginable. From the beginning we adopted a simple informal approach to servin... More »