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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

Like many bosses, Jon Kaplan thought he was a good leader. He worked his way up from aspiring academic to public school teacher to corporate instructional designer and eventually into the top learning job at Discover Financial Services, a Chicago-area firm with 17,000 employees. April 2019 Profile: Discover Financial’s Jon Kaplan.

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How HR Can Improve Psychological Safety in the Workplace

KnowledgeCity

Implementing a program to improve psychological safety at work is the first step. Managers who share lessons learned from mistakes and support calculated risk-taking will “encourage innovation instead of sabotaging it.” As Kaplan states, “Ideas themselves are a dime a dozen. Establish norms for handling failure.

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Does your first-time manager training help nurture successful leaders?

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Luckily, this is something that can be learned. Also, learning how to delegate , and not end up doing everything yourself is a skill that new managers should develop. But managing a team can be learned, and new managers will earn more respect if they put together a seamless workflow for everyone. One thing’s for sure.

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When the Boss Needs People Skills

CLO Magazine

A chapter by Joyce and Robert Hogan, founders of Hogan Assessment Systems, where the author works, and Rob Kaiser of Kaplan DeVries, published in the APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology illustrated that at least 50 percent and as many as 75 percent of managers will fail. Can EQ Be Coached? Is Coaching Worth It?

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