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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

Not Recognizing the Knowing-Doing Gap Let’s face it: a lot of new leader readiness programs don’t do enough to prepare leaders for the realities of the job. The “knowing-doing gap” refers to the disparity between what individuals know they should do and what they actually do in practice.

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Mind the Gap: How to Assess Sales Performance Gaps to Achieve Execution Excellence

PDG

Assuming you’ve adequately onboarded all your sales reps—instructing them on product knowledge, sales process, market dynamics and competitors, technology usage, industry regulations, and so on—they should be well-prepared for the dynamic world of life science sales. Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them.

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A Framework For Content Curation

Learnnovators

. * Truisms such as this one are typically met with suspicion from certain quarters of the L&D community, but in this case the research on the comparative efficacies of lectures, worked examples, PBL etc appears to add up. This content is new knowledge. For example, it may inform the sequence of an online course. (In

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A framework for content curation

E-Learning Provocateur

. * Truisms such as this one are typically met with suspicion from certain quarters of the L&D community, but in this case the research on the comparative efficacies of lectures, worked examples, PBL etc appears to add up. This content is new knowledge. For example, it may inform the sequence of an online course. (In

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

Most scholars would say “no” because it depends on what you’re trying to do. For example, engineering-oriented cultures differ from sales-oriented cultures. How do we translate our existing skills to create engaging voice learner experiences? Michael Lee Stallard discovered this is only partially true.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

Take Twitter for example: I get right into it - try it, think about how it’s being used, research it, look for people using it in the workplace, talk to them about how they are using it and how they ‘did it’ and finally write about so you can make some sort of informed decision based on your situation. Implementing.

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

I received these responses: Design with intentional gaps in the knowledge of the book to encourage high bandwidth communication might be fatal. After nine days of brainstorming and talking with others, I found myself focusing on organizing the Body of Knowledge. The structure of the Body of Knowledge has shifted.

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