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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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Bliss

Jay Cross

For that, I’ll be interviewing people, scouring the web, and digging through books to come up with what managers and professionals need to do differently to prosper in today’s business world. Which books will be good catalysts to my thinking? My only work will be the 21C Leadership Project.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

She’s an internationally recognized instructional designer, researcher, and learning analyst who makes these tactics clear and actionable in her books and workshops. Additionally, L&D continues to be leveraged as a reactive response to skill gaps, retention challenges, and poor performance.

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The power of one

E-Learning Provocateur

In Conscious Business , Kofman defines the difference between a “victim” and a “player” A victim blames all of his or her woes on external factors – the bus was late; the traffic was horrendous; my boss is an idiot; our IT sucks; we don’t have a learning culture around here. We know social learning works.

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

Several months ago I decided to write a book about working smarter for managers and executives. I thought I’d be able to do this by changing the voice of the Fieldbook. A friend of mine who has published numerous books sent the Fieldbook to his editor, a PhD English grad in India. And it ends up not being a book at all.

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The power of one

E-Learning Provocateur

In Conscious Business , Kofman defines the difference between a “victim” and a “player” A victim blames all of his or her woes on external factors – the bus was late; the traffic was horrendous; my boss is an idiot; our IT sucks; we don’t have a learning culture around here. We know social learning works.

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Free L&D webinars for September 2018

Limestone Learning

Businesses should always look for an easy-to-use toolkit that facilitates rapid creation and distribution of eLearning at scale. How open-source platforms can be optimized to inspire a culture of learning in the workplace that aligns with business objectives. In this respect, there is often a “knowing-doinggap to be filled.

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