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What a kidney transplant taught me about company culture

CLO Magazine

In 2003, when I became aware of my kidney disease, I knew very little about it or the transplant process. Where creating a culture of openness, collaboration and high performance is a priority, we cannot turn a blind eye to uncivil behavior. Team culture is a silent sentinel that can alienate or reject a new hire perceived as a threat.

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Comic Books for Learning: The Case of Superman

KnowledgeOne

While the story of the origins of comic books varies from country to country, in North America, the great depression (from late 1929 until about 1939) was a perfect inspiration for the rise of a new hero culture. Why not use characters with such deep overall meaning to build Learning about history, culture and ethics, amongst other topics?

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Literacy in the New Media Age

Learning with e's

Gunther was chair of Semiotics and Education in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media within the Institute of Education of University College London. His book Literacy in the New Media Age, which was first published by Routledge in 2003, was prescient and far sighted. Kress, 2003, p. 16) Reference Kress, G.

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Vision and Values Shaping New Organizational Structures

The Performance Improvement Blog

They are raising doubts about workplace cultures that make people miserable and don’t allow them to achieve their full potential. But now we see large scale enterprises intentionally creating cultures that are aligned with what they want to accomplish rather than simply adopting the structures typical of organizations that have come before.

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Congratulations to the 2021 Learning in Practice Awards finalists

CLO Magazine

The awards were established in 2003 to recognize learning leaders who have demonstrated excellence in the design and delivery of employee development programs. Division 1: Stacey Johnson, Head of Leadership and Culture, The Kraft Heinz Co. Stacey Johnson, Head of Leadership and Culture, The Kraft Heinz Co.

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OpenSesame welcomes internationally recognized diversity and inclusion publisher Symmetra to its elearning course catalogue

OpenSesame

Founded in Australia in 2003 by Heather Price, who founded one of the first diversity consultancies in South Africa during the dismantling of apartheid, Symmetra provides cutting-edge diversity and inclusion products and services. Symmetra is a global specialist provider in inclusion and diversity training and culture change services.

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Meetings: Love Them or Leave Them

The Performance Improvement Blog

Carson Tate writes in the New York Times : The meeting culture that is dominating corporate America is unsustainable and unproductive. This is just one result of a meeting-intensive culture. How many meetings did you attend last week that didn’t even have an agenda? How many resulted in a new idea?

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