By Rich Mesch Way back in April of 2010, I wrote this post about talking learning to business, where I basically posited that business doesn’t value learning, it values performance. I recently saw a wonderful presentation by ROI guru Jack Phillips at the Training 2011 conference that provided data to support that assumption. The bad news? [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Talent Management’
What CEOs Want (and it’s not what you think)
Posted in Performance Improvement, ROI, tagged Organizational Learning, Performance Improvement, Talent Management on April 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Bridging the Performance Gap: Training is Just Part of the Solution
Posted in Performance Improvement, Talent Management, tagged Organizational Learning, Performance Improvement, Talent Management on July 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »
by Reni Gorman I have been designing and delivering learning interventions for nearly 20 years (dare I say), and I always tell my clients that the learning intervention is just the start of creating change in behavior. There are many other components and models but I boil it down to the most necessary: 1. Goal [...]
How to be a Great Mentor: Lessons from Real Life
Posted in Coaching, Leadership, Performance Improvement, Talent Management, tagged Leadership, Learning Theory, Mentoring, Performance Improvement, Talent Management on June 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
by Sherry Engel I’ve struggled the last month or so to write a blog entry, trying to find that topic that “hits home”. I want to blog about things that are truly important and meaningful to me. This weekend, through my own personal journey of growth in my faith, I discovered a great correlation [...]
How to Train an Executive: Quick, Relevant Content and Meaningful Conversations with Peers and SMEs
Posted in Leadership, Performance Improvement, tagged Leadership, Learning Theory, Performance Improvement, Talent Management on May 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
by Reni Gorman and Rich Mesch 55 and Older Execs Don’t Like Training Reni: I read an article on The Economist titled: Executive education and the over-55s: Never too old to learn. The focus was about the trend that older executives are shunning corporate training. The reason? To put it bluntly: They are sick [...]
Attributes of Effective Coaching: Coaching Appreciatively
Posted in Coaching, Leadership, Performance Improvement, Series, tagged Coaching, Leadership, Performance Improvement, Talent Management on April 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
by Dawn Francis, Ed.D. Coaching is one of my favorite topics to research and discuss. That might surprise you since I’ve written the majority of my blog entries on transformative learning; however, there’s a distinct synergy between the two. Think of coaching as an enabler of the transformative learning process. Coaching can be a catalyst [...]
My Style or Yours? The Hows and Whys of Human Interaction
Posted in Performance Improvement, Series, Talent Management, tagged Organizational Change, Performance Improvement, StrengthsFinder, Talent Management on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Sherry Engel Each year, at the beginning of my son’s basketball season, the coach gives a speech to all the parents. He says, “I promise if I have to discipline your child, I will always be fair. But that doesn’t mean that I will treat each child the same.” Now, at first glance, this [...]
