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Business Book Reading Program

The Performance Improvement Blog

With over 11,000 business books being published each year, the task of deciding which books to spend your valuable time reading can be overwhelming. Yet, book reading is a very important method of learning and self-development and should be part of any leader's routine.

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The Great Training Robbery Continues

The Performance Improvement Blog

When I ask the training and development leaders who participate in my ATD Essentials of Developing an Organizational Learning Culture workshop to say what percentage of employees who attend training programs actually apply what they’ve learned on the job, the answers range from about 10% to about 50%, with most at the lower end of that range.

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48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read

TalentLMS

This is why my team and I put together this list of forty-eight books. The books are organized by category: Books recommended by training experts (4). Learning books (4). Corporate training books (3). Instructional design books (6). Instructional design books (6). Learning technology books (2).

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Colleges Need a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Faculty, students, and employers depend on degree programs and course offerings that look the same from year to year. In their recently published book, titled Leading Innovation and Change , Larry Smith and Al Blixt write: The forces of change are multidirectional and inescapable, especially if you are in a leadership position.

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Free learning & development webinars for August 2022

Limestone Learning

PT: Intersections in Learning Susan Manos is the Director of Learning and Development for Corporate Quality Assurance at Procter & Gamble, with over ten years’ experience in building and sustaining a global learning program for Quality Assurance employees and their colleagues at P&G. Robinson, Ed.D.,

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21rst Century Organizations Need a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

ATD’s 2016 State of the Industry report concludes: …the traditional, instructor-led, face-to-face classroom continues to play a crucial role, and it was still the delivery mechanism for 51 percent of learning hours used in 2015. This change requires, in part, engaging managers in helping to facilitate the learning of their direct reports.

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More Management Lessons From Nonprofits

The Performance Improvement Blog

In my last post I wrote about Nancy Lublin’s new book, Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business , and her notion that for-profit companies have much to learn from well-managed nonprofits. She says in that post that businesses should learn three major financial lessons from nonprofits: 1. Madoff Investment Securities.

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