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Organization Culture Change: Where There's a Will, There's a Way

The Performance Improvement Blog

Contrary to popular belief, organization culture can be changed, if only leaders put their minds to it. Some executives try to sidestep culture by arguing that the culture in their organizations can’t be changed. Culture is difficult to change but not impossible. Leaders need to be willing and able to change culture.

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Are we taking into account the culture surrounding our students?

Kapp Notes

As technology evolves and changes over time, a culture will either change with the technology or disappear or, in some rare cases, the culture will shun the technology and remain isolated from the rest of the world. When groups fail to change their culture with the technology, they risk isolation. References: Delpit, L.

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3 Ways eLearning Benefits Multinational Corporations

TOPYX LMS

From the end of the 1960s to 2006, the number of multinational corporations grew from 7,000 to at least 80,000.¹ Multinational corporations have geographically widespread workforces often comprised of huge numbers of individuals of varying cultures. For this type of steadily growing corporation, training is key to success.

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Good Leaders Can Redefine Training to Help Transform Workplace Culture

CLO Magazine

An employee’s perception of their company’s culture is directly connected to how engaged their direct manager is in their training. The best training companies feel strongly about assertive, supportive coaches walking alongside employees to unleash human performance in order to redefine training, transform culture and change lives.

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Training & Development in Belize

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Let's take an island adventure to Belize and explore some common cultural facts (and their impact on the training and development market). Test your knowledge of Belizean culture with the true or false questions below: True or False? Culture Quiz Answers: True. Island culture prevails. Avon: Adams Media, 2006).

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Digital tribes

Learning with e's

Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. Cultural transmission is the communication of ideas.

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Academic Cheating: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

According to various sources, at least half of all students fall victim to cheating at least once during high school ( Anderman & Midgley, 2004; Christensen Hughes & McCabe, 2006; Gilbert & Michaut, 2009 ). The context and culture of __ within and outside the university. Find out more: Why are we cheating? A. __ issues.

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