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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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Peer learning groups to accelerate coaching skills

CLO Magazine

This often results in a “direct and tell” work culture, thereby suppressing individual capabilities of generating ideas, solving problems and learning from failure. Be fully present and avoid multitasking I agree to: 1. The post Peer learning groups to accelerate coaching skills appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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Five Ways to Use Brain Science to Become a Better Leader

CLO Magazine

Most workplace cultures, however, focus on optimizing results instead of improving social interactions. In other words, leaders should stop multitasking and focus on one task. If not, they may experience a decline in quality of thought and in energy, as both erode with prolonged multitasking. Social: Introvert?

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Are You Ready for These 5 Trends in 2018?

Avilar

As Josh Bersin put it in a recent CLO Magazine article, “we are getting older (and younger).” Tech-savvy multitaskers, millennials are eager and able to connect with others around the world. They must cultivate a flexible work environment that promotes connections across geographies and cultures, while encouraging work-life balance.

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Use Employee Health As a Performance Engine

CLO Magazine

Leaders can enable this bi-directional flow by declaring and nurturing a culture of health within their organizations and establishing a paradigm where the C-suite places health and wellness first and leads by example. That might include instituting walking meetings, encouraging energy breaks and discouraging multitasking.

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College Students Take a Swing at Running a Baseball Team

CLO Magazine

Another aspect of this crucible environment, the small class size also means that more positions will need to be multitasked in order to achieve their goals. Tutka wants to create a continuous classroom culture that seeks open and transparent communication, where each level of the business listens to one another as last year’s class did. “It

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

Wonderful Brain

CLO’s it seems, unless really enlightened, have not passed down by policy the need to make learning aligned to what will soon be their largest contingent (25%) of employees. Hyperconnectivity is baked in to millennials as is multitasking. For sales staff! A double whammy there, right? Millennials are 2.5 That’s a lot of big wins.