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Information Overload: The Plague of Learning and Development

CLO Magazine

To keep up with customers, many business leaders have recognized that having great products isn’t enough. In interviews conducted with CEOs and other business leaders, my team and I asked the question, “What do you think you get from the money you spend on your support? Or on the people who create learning for your employees?”

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Don’t Try to Do So Many Things At Once

CLO Magazine

Employee attempts to multitask are putting a serious damper on their performance. Digital Third Coast Content Manager Andy Kerns defined multitasking as the act of switching back and forth between multiple tasks — different from what many people believe the behavior to be: literally completing multiple tasks on a to-do list simultaneously.

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Your leaders’ brains were not made for this moment

CLO Magazine

Around 1900, organizational and technological innovations in electricity ushered in a new industrial revolution, as electricity allowed factories and businesses to stay open through the night and facilitated more rapid communication via the electric telegraph. Helping a leader’s brain adapt more productive patterns starts with awareness.

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Let’s Focus a Little Better

CLO Magazine

As a millennial, I’ve been conditioned to multitask, and as glorious as that’s been to list on cover letters in the past, it is in fact, not the business for me or anyone really. Minimizing multitasking, meditating and making to-do lists are also some great places to start and behaviors to encourage among employees.

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Use Employee Health As a Performance Engine

CLO Magazine

In the biology of business performance, energy and health are critical enablers of high performance and should be considered a part of any successful business strategy. Employees are behavioral beings, and each person contributes to the success of the enterprise. In 2010, Towers Watson & Co. The same year Gallup Inc.

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CORPORATE INSTRUCTION IS STILL DISCONNECTED FROM MILLENNIAL LEARNING STYLES – A LIST BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

Wonderful Brain

It bears remembering we are in business of transmitting only three things: knowledge, skills, and behaviors. So, with a grudging acceptance of what had to be learned, skills absorbed only if they had immediate utility, and behaviors, well…let’s just say the millennials I was working with and around were not among the receptive.