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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 “knowing-doing gap” refers to the disparity between what individuals know they should do and what they actually do in practice.

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Mind the Gap: How to Assess Sales Performance Gaps to Achieve Execution Excellence

PDG

Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them. The question is, are they doing it? This is the knowing/doing gap. The knowing/doing gap refers to the disconnect between what we know we should do and what we actually do in practice.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

Our education system had inculcated the belief that “learning” is all about gaining information and knowledge and being able to remember that long enough to answer exam questions. Today, Google and the Internet has eliminated the need to remember information. The question is, “How does this information impact us, the L&D folks”.

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9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

WBT Systems

An online course that merely provides information is no better than any other in today’s competitive lifelong learning market. These learning outcomes should be included in the course description so students know what to expect and whether the course is right for them. Students want impact, not information. Solving a problem.

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Free L&D webinars for July 2019

Limestone Learning

Monday, July 8, 2019, 11AM – 12PM PT: Emotional Intelligence: A Key Component of Effective Coaching (Free for ATD members) To be successful, leaders at all levels of an organization must be competent coaches. The impact of EI on informal coaching and team performance. New coach training and development findings.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

Take Twitter for example: I get right into it - try it, think about how it’s being used, research it, look for people using it in the workplace, talk to them about how they are using it and how they ‘did it’ and finally write about so you can make some sort of informed decision based on your situation. impatience issue].

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Curator Editor Research Opportunities on eLearning Learning

Tony Karrer

Combined this forms the body of content that the topic hub aggregates and organizes. And as more bloggers add the widget to their blog, we should be able to get more information that helps bring their best stuff to the top. Do they pull all the content into the central site or leave it distributed on the original source?

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