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CRZY APOCALYPSE — 4.1 WORKPLACE ELEMENTS TO HELP YOU SURVIVE.

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Ultimately, such destructive individuals are most capable of harming the most fragile commodity in any company: the creativity of a person, persons, and inflicting fatal wounds on the organization. The executive is clearly frustrated – saying he does not have the time to provide an example. Worse, they’re coming for your mind.

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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IS A SIMPLE PROCESS ONCE THE RHETORIC IS REMOVED

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Nevertheless, the more I learn how companies capture and leverage their intellectual property, the more disheartened I become. Naturally, this demands a company commitment since these activities and will need creation, invention, and management. Step two, retaining knowledge for the future and providing easy access closes the loop.

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10.2 Strategic Ways to Ensure Learning Begets Performance Improvement

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While we can all agree a yardstick is required, we often have a hard time decoding points A and B, a decision provided by the business identifying current and preferable conditions. When an employee has a panoramic view of the company and recognizes how their participation is vital, the door to learning opens. Think reality TV.

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Baking the Cookies: Hiring Learning Consultants to be Successful

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Except – the immediate manager modifies the assignment/methodology/direction, and/or the support promised – everything from equipment to people resources is neither available nor provided. I have yet to see – at any company – and I mean the Fortune 100/500 a document outlining the intake procedures for consultants. Cordial, yes.

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PLAY ME or TRADE ME

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Why do many companies engage consultants for their expertise and then challenge either what we offer or ignore it in favor of some hybrid solution? The player cannot improve his skills by playing every day, nor can he provide a resume of accomplishments trying to make the roster of the next team. So, a double loss.

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WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

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Lecturing from the platform while walking engineers through the content and then transitioning to the software application training was a model this company had used before. The Instructor’s Manual would provide all the labs, screens, teaching scripts and software application directions.

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LEADERS ARE TOO FAR UPSTREAM TO EFFECT CHANGE—TALENT MANAGEMENT MUST BE FOCUSED DOWNSTREAM ON MANAGERS

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When companies speak of talent management they still, in most cases, make distinctions among the types of employees who earn or receive the types of learning that prepares them for one role or the other. The Talent Management Function. There’s no question leadership is vital to any enterprise.