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A Performance Consulting Approach to Helping Small Business Owners

August 04, 2008 - by Jeff McElyea

In my work I meet many small business owners (SBOs) who are very skilled at their crafts but who lack a broad understanding of how to build and operate a business. Consequently, their companies are profitable enough to remain open, but do not generate a livable income. ... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development

Competencies , Human Performance Improvement

The Art of People-Whispering

August 04, 2008 - by Laura A. Davis

I dont know about you, but I sometimes long for the relative simplicity of the 1970s and 1980s. As a consumer, life seemed more straightforward. I had a checking account, a money market account, and a few stocks. As a recent college graduate, I worked for Chase Manhatta... More »

Career Development

Competencies , Informal Learning , Intermediate-level Content

Uncommon-Practice Leadership

August 04, 2008 - by Nan S. Russell

Calling an apple an orange doesnt make it one, nor does labeling someone a leader magically transform her into one. In fact, true leadership doesnt come with a title or position, nor is it assignable by level of authority. Leadership doesnt emerge at the conclusion of a... More »

Learning & Development

Career Development , Coaching and Mentoring , Competencies

How to Make a Mind Map

August 01, 2008 - by Clive Lewis, Richard Evans

Mind Mapping is a note-taking system that uses images, color, words, and number arranged in a connected, radiant, and hierarchical structure. The term Mind Map was created by British author and psychologist Tony Bruzan. Originally devised as a way of helping people lear... More »

Learning Technologies , Learning & Development

Designing Learning , Training and Development - General

Make Games Fun—and Effective

August 01, 2008 - by Cheryl Johnson

As we move closer to the time when virtual reality, intelligent tutoring, 3D gaming, and just plain games inundate the training space, it would serve us well to examine exactly why games are beneficial. More importantly, we need to understand why games work. More »

Learning Technologies , Learning & Development

Simulations and Serious Games , E-Learning , Social Learning , Designing Learning

A Performance Consulting Approach to Helping Small Business Owners

The Art of People-Whispering

Uncommon-Practice Leadership

How to Make a Mind Map

Make Games Fun—and Effective

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