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The Top 3 ingredients for motivating employees in tough times

Matrix

Read more: The role of leaders in building trust within the organization. Employees feel motivated when they can see the results of their work and have the resources to grow both personally and professionally. Motivation science tells that trust can be built by showing trust first. Competence. Closing thoughts.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. But not so great for building bonds and trust. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. To add value, do the work that puts me in flow--always. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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Getting Learners to Collaborate in a Virtual Learning Environment

ScholarLMS

With support and guidance being readily available during class hours, the learning process gets easier and enjoyable, hence more effective. Effective collaborations are possible when backed by efficient course design, delivery, and the use of suitable tools and technology. Share experiences and knowledge. Work in groups.

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Get Employee Onboarding Right

Everwise

The onboarding practices of the past – completing checklists of tasks, filling out forms, and even watching old grainy compliance tapes – may no longer cut it, particularly in industries like knowledge work, where talent (and therefore turnover) is very expensive. Create a balanced, effective onboarding program.

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Effectively Managing Your Time and Energy – AXIOM Insights Podcast

AXIOM Learning Solutions

The workshop provides tools and approaches which can be used by anyone – not only people who work in sales – to manage your own energy and to be more present and effective in your workplace, and by doing so better understand and define how your work relates to the demands and recharging effects of both your work and personal life.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Mayo discovered the Hawthorne Effect, opening the study of motivation. Understanding what type of environment we are working in (Simple, Complicated, Complex or Chaotic) lets us frame our actions. Effective organizations are starting to look more like inverted pyramids. GE started its corporate schools. ASTD is born.

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A new model for training

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

To be effective today they need to be constantly probing and trying out better ways of work. Management’s job is to assist this dynamic flow of sense-making and to respond to workers’ needs, within a trusted network of information and knowledge sharing. Management needs to support self-learning, not direct it.