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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

In this article, I’ll explore the reasons for mediocre outcomes and provide some insights into how you can improve program effectiveness. 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.

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

PDG

Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them. The question is, are they doing it? This is the knowing/doing gap. The knowing/doing gap refers to the disconnect between what we know we should do and what we actually do in practice.

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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

This article explores the challenges facing sales teams in the life sciences industry and what sales leaders can do to optimize their teams for best-in-class performance. As a sales leader, your primary responsibility is to drive revenue growth for your organization. It’s the skills needed to succeed tomorrow.

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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

– Harvard Business Review Where Do the Execution Wheels Fall Off? Studies show that 90% of organizations fail to execute their strategies. Identifying Knowledge Gaps Work with your team to identify any knowing/doing gaps hindering execution in the upcoming year.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

In this context, a discussion with a friend led me to the video on Knowing-Doing Gap by Bob Proctor. Some further research into the Knowing-Doing Gap led me to his website: [link]. Related articles Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives' I think this could have a huge impact.

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Training - Performance Support - Learning - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

In the previous article, Reality eLearning , you can find some ways to get a sense of your audience’s workplace reality through interviews and observations.&#. One Organization Seems to Believe So - The E-Learning Curve , July 14, 2009. Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap in Leadership , July 12, 2009. Hot Topics.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

Why do they fail so often? Six stumbling blocks are identified by Klein and Knight (article attached): New technology can be unreliable and imperfectly designed [hassle]. Maintaining status quo (knowing-doing gap). Journal Article: Innovation Implementation. successful implementation). impatience issue].