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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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From Strategy to Results: How to Drive Sales Execution Excellence

PDG

” It’s a riff on Peter Drucker’s famous words, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” – Harvard Business Review Where Do the Execution Wheels Fall Off? Identifying Knowledge Gaps Work with your team to identify any knowing/doing gaps hindering execution in the upcoming year.

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Unleash Life Sciences Field Rep Potential with the Performance Matrix

PDG

The Knowing/Doing Gap: Tackle the Challenge Like a Boss Before we dive into the nitty-gritty of the Performance Matrix, let’s first talk about a universal challenge known as the Knowing/Doing Gap. As a sales leader, it’s your job to bridge that gap for your team.

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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

performance & Measurement Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance Written By: Sean Frontz March 20, 2023 – 6 min read In today’s highly competitive business environment, talent development is a crucial factor for success. The Knowing/Doing Gap is one of the most studied concepts in human psychology.

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Louder than words

E-Learning Provocateur

Everyone knows that change management is hard. Culture eats strategy for breakfast; an organisation’s culture doesn’t change over night; something about herding cats; the change curve; etc. But there’s a big elephant in the room: the power of recruitment to accelerate cultural change.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

It’s a fast-growing area of educational technology research, with roots in a variety of fields, particularly business intelligence, web analytics, educational data mining and recommender systems. Additionally, L&D continues to be leveraged as a reactive response to skill gaps, retention challenges, and poor performance.

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21st Century Leadership

Jay Cross

Intangibles — know how, know who, ideas, and the tacit lessons of experience — have limitless potential; plant and equipment can be millstones that hold you back. Enlightened businesses would shuck off the factory mentality that sees people as interchangeable parts. The 21C Leadership Project.