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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

Jeff Cobb at Tagoras explains why : “The social context in which we learn is usually what supplies relevance—a critical element for adult learning, or andragogy —and it is by wrestling with ideas and information in a social context that we make sense of them, modify them, and make them our own.”. Solving a problem.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

If you could use some ideas, there are plenty of free webinars on everything from learning principles to design tips to career management. You’ll get boatloads of budget-stretching ideas from your colleagues during this interactive session. “ Assorted Vegetable Dishes on White Plate ” by Pixabay is Public Domain. The heat is on!

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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. In the next session at Overlap, groups of half a dozen people each drew and described an idea where we were looking for help. These pages document the progress of my thinking about the book. Here’s mine.

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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. Convincing their organizations to do more. Examples will be provided.

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