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Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership
Women are having a moment. If you read the right headlines, women are rising into leadership at some of the biggest companies in the world. Men are getting on the #metoo bandwagon and learning how to become allies in...
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Unlocking Employee Potential Through Coaching
If you're a manager, then you know your job entails more than just signing off on timecards and approving PTO. Part of your job is to ensure that your employees perform at their highest level. But how do you do...
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Measuring Instructional Effectiveness
Employee training is integral to the overall success of a business. Whether you are on-boarding new employees or enhancing the skills of existing ones, they need the tools to become aligned with your company culture and learn their new (or...
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Documentation: The New MVP of Sales
You're already managing several moving parts as a Sales rep, why add more to your plate? The answer is simple; because you have to stay ahead of the curve at all times. One of the most efficient ways to do...
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LeaderSHIFT: Leadership Essentials for an Extraordinary Life
Do you want an average life? Something ordinary, something unremarkable? Most people would answer those questions with a resounding “No!” And yet so many people live a life that is exactly that: average. Ordinary. John Maxwell, author, and noted leadership...
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Conducting a Training Needs Assessment
Training has evolved from simply checking completion boxes to a more comprehensive way an organization can ensure their learners have the necessary skills to complete their job and showcase their potential. A 'Training Needs Assessment' is so valuable because your...
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3 Ways to Improve Training for Diverse Learners
It's good that you already know to keep the needs of the diverse learners in mind. Once you are aware that each individual learner has a different knowledge level, learning style preference, or cultural background, you'll want to improve the...
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Developing Curriculum and Instructional Materials
When developing curricula and instructional materials, the most important guideline to keep in mind is “everything must be aligned with the learning goals.” Plan backwards.
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Understanding Course Effectiveness
Instructors of all kinds have to create and deliver courses. Whether you are a teacher or a trainer delivering information to children or adults, you will have to employ techniques to address the needs of your unique group of learners....
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Open Doors & Close the Deal
The begrudged sales call. You understand the fundamental principles behind selling, but you still dread the 'sales call'. There are several ways to manage a sales call, however, the 8 steps detailed below include the most succinct way you can...
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Training Millennials? This Learning Guide can Help!
According to the Pew Research Center, Millennials (born between 1982 and 2000) are America's largest demographic segment in the workforce. As more and more Millennials are entering the workplace, the way we train and learn new information must evolve to...
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The Art of Successfully Transferring to Virtual Training
As a global workforce we no longer have to reside in the same city, state or country as our colleagues. Being located all over the world means more flexibility, diverse communication and exposure to new cultures and traditions. However, it...
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Dealing with Other People's Emotions
Most people want to end conversations when someone cries or gets angry, but then you miss the opportunity to find solutions together. And, it’s likely you will make the person feel worse. It’s better to be compassionately silent until they...
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Solving Problems with Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a design methodology that provides a solutions-based approach to solving problems. This path will introduce you to the concept of design thinking, the stages in the design thinking process, and ways to implement design thinking at work.
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Creating A Social Media Content Strategy > From Start to Finish
In today's world, social media marketing is one of the biggest tools for creating a strong brand. To do so, you need content that draws in your audience and creates a community amongst your potential customers. However, creating engaging and...
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Adapting and Evolving your Course for Effectiveness (or Value)
So you've created a training course! Now what?? By looking at the various outcomes of the training, you can assess the validity and value of your training course on the trainees and for the company, and based on this knowledge,...
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6 Vital Skills to Catapult Your Career
Presence, productivity, thinking, communication, relationships, and career management: your ability to manage and master each one of those moves you closer and closer to advancing your career. This path is one of the most comprehensive in Pete's...
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Learning Analytics: Understanding the Metrics that Matter
Learning analytics are the practices to prove and improve the impact of learning programs on outcomes. We can use surveys, tests, and on the job performance metrics to show that training is making an impact on business goals like sales,...
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Cryptocurrency: Stay in the Know
Welcome to the exciting, roller coaster world of blockchain for good, and crypto currencies. This curated list is intended to be provocative, interesting and insightful. There is so much more to this world than just articles about the price of...
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Thriving in a Multicultural Environment
The reality of today’s global economy is changing the way employers look at their staff. While relevant experience and technical know-how remain must-haves for employers, they are also looking for employees with the ability to understand people from...
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Mindfulness at Work | How to Bring Awareness to Your Company’s Leadership
When you think of mindfulness, the first thing that comes into your head is probably meditation or practicing yoga, and this isn’t wrong, but it’s definitely not the only way to think of it, especially in the context of the...
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How to Provide Feedback to Product Design Teams so That Products Can Be Tailored To Clients' Needs
As a Sales Representative, you want what to provide products that meet your customers' needs. How do you make this happen? When you determine customer needs do not match with the product, what do you do? In this path, you...
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Improving Cross-Functional Collaboration
Cross functional collaboration happens when a group of people with different functional expertise, often from different departments, come together to work toward a common goal. While this type of teamwork can be rewarding and can result in impactful...