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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 problem isn’t the training itself. Suddenly, all my training had gone out the window because nobody trained me on what to do when someone starts crying.”

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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

However, despite these investments, sales performance remains a persistent problem. As we continue to create new systems, technology, tools, and processes to help sales, we are inadvertently contributing to the problem rather than solving it. The Knowing/Doing Gap is one of the most studied concepts in human psychology.

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9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

WBT Systems

Help students cross the knowing-doing gap by having them immediately apply what they’ve learned. Providing examples or scenarios. Solving a problem. Ask good questions, for example, open-ended questions that require a higher level of reflection and thinking. Writing a short essay or opinion piece.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

Most scholars would say “no” because it depends on what you’re trying to do. For example, engineering-oriented cultures differ from sales-oriented cultures. Michael Lee Stallard discovered this is only partially true. No doubt cultures differ depending upon tasks.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

I talk about them a lot and contribute to the problem. Many times, doing it right requires heavy lifting. For example: State-of-the-art exercise equipment >>> Purchase >>> Becomes clothes rack (failed Implementation). Maintaining status quo (knowing-doing gap). Implementing.

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

Recognizing a problem. Our opening exercise was to draw a cartoon that explained a problem we were working on. From there, the book can delve into ways to do that, for example Dare2Share, the SUN Learning Exchange, accessing just-in-time tips via Twitter, mobile podcasts, Cisco’s communities of practice, and so forth.

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Free L&D webinars for September 2018

Limestone Learning

In this respect, there is often a “knowing-doinggap to be filled. This webcast will explore how simulations can be used as an effective tool to bridge this gap and the benefits they can bring to learning and development within organizations. Examples will be provided.

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