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What Businesses Can Learn From Nonprofits

The Performance Improvement Blog

All are companies that could have benefited from following the practices of well-run nonprofits. Business tends to rely on money to solve problems and achieve goals. Alice Korngold, writing about Lublin’s book for a Fast Company blog , puts it this way: Think about how the employees of BP feel: Ashamed?

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

A number of organizations have already explored the use of video sharing to support team working, by encouraging team members to create and share videos of company tasks and activities. This was the concept behind the successful BT Dare2Share project , and Dixon’s Retail. 3 - Google Docs/Drive. 4 - Google Search. 8 - PowerPoint.

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Why This? Why Now? “Working Out Loud”

Learning Rebels

Have you ever started working on a project only to find out that someone else in your organization is working on the same project? Been there, done that – and from these experiences, I learned to talk more about projects I was working on. Pick a problem project and ask three questions: 1) Where are you stuck?

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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

Performance Learning Productivity

A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. In other words, to alter response, performance or whatever aspect of human behaviour we are focused on, and for that alteration to be for the better.

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Performance Management Tools and Techniques to Motivate Employees

Continu

Or measuring an entire department’s projected goals against what has actually been achieved. For example, this could be great customer service by a sales team member, valuable sharable content on the company blog by a marketing team member or sales goals exceeded by the sales department. Or is this employee feeling undervalued?

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How to Build an Online Learning Sponsorship Program

WBT Systems

They’re the thought leaders who share their wisdom and advice on their company blog, host webinars, speak at conferences, or participate in online communities. Or, they could discuss the obstacles that must be overcome before implementing the technology and provide project management tips. But, think about the learner first.

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How to Perform a Training Needs Analysis Remotely

The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

Step 3: Gather Information and Data Now it’s time to see what’s going on in real-time – checking out what employees are doing, how they’re performing, trends, and We need to make sense of the information in front of us, and see if we can detect any patterns, problems, opportunities, or threats occurring.