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Re-Thinking HR-based Training Organizations: A Break from Tradition?

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I like the concept of “re-thinking” training organizations based in HR, and I say this from personal work history primarily based in the training space over the last thirty plus years. The blended perspective I have comes from working both inside and outside of HR in training organizations.

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Is Training Falling Short? Turn Up the Pain!

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I just finished reading an amazing book, “Chase the Lion”, by Mark Batterson, where the focus is largely examining change…personal change to be exact. But the same principles he addresses are very relevant for shifting thinking in an organization.

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Training Must Swim to the Current to Survive

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Can a training organization be like a river? Believe it or not, there are some amazing similarities, and some shared characteristics require positioning, or re-positioning the organization’s value proposition to remain in the flow. The eddy, in particular, is a phenomenon that is all too prevalent in training organizations today.

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Change Leadership: When Change Management Is Not Enough

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Now consider this question: “Is IT the only organization in your enterprise involved in Change?” This is a perfect example where Change Leadership (CL) is required to expand the scope of shepherding sustainable Change in and across the organization. This all makes perfect sense, right? Of course not!

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Covert Consulting: A Survival Competency for Today’s Training Organizations

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He makes a simple request – “If we’re going to become a world-class Marketing organization, we’re going to have to fix the Marketing University catalog.”. Tom, I can help you with that, and I need to ask a few additional questions to clarify what you seek to change about your current marketing organization. Therein lays our trap.