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Research suggests that with the right mind-set, technological literacy, and community engagement, you can shepherd your entire workforce into the digital future.

Content: Article | Authors: Ann Johnston, Darren Lee, Mike Pino | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

In our era of globalization, your job performance may depend on your “CQ”. So what is it?

Content: Article | Author: David Robson | Source: BBC | Subjects: Human Resources, International, Training & Development

With critical thinking ranking among the most in-demand skills for job candidates, you would think that educational institutions would prepare candidates well to be exceptional thinkers, and employers would be adept at developing such skills in existing employees. Unfortunately, both are largely untrue.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

To demystify what critical thinking is and how it is developed, our team at Zarvana turned … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Matt Plummer | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Personal Development, Training & Development

The ACADEMIES framework is a useful tool for conceptualizing learning strategy.

Content: Article | Authors: Jacqueline Brassey, Lisa Christensen, Nick van Dam | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

Every leader should mount a transition in two equally important stages: first take stock and then take action by asking questions about five basic dimensions of leadership—the strategy and operation of the business or function, the corporate culture, the team, the leader herself or himself, and other stakeholders that need to be managed. Beware of generic answers because every leader’s starting point is different. For … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Mary Meaney, Scott Keller | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

Organizations most often try to help newly appointed leaders by supplying them with mentors or informal “buddy” networks. Yet only 47 percent of external hires and 29 percent of internal ones find these helpful. Standard orientation programs are the second most common approach, but only 19 percent of externally and 11 percent of internally recruited executives consider them effective. Some methods—for instance, tailored executive coaching … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Mary Meaney, Scott Keller | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

Make learning stick. See how Google uses bite-sized lessons to help managers build psychological safety within their teams.

Content: Article | Authors: Debbie Newhouse, Regina Getz-Kikuchi | Source: re:Work | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

I’d rather get sophisticated questions than simple answers from new hires. People often don’t think that asking questions is indicative of quick learning. They think it’s the opposite.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jay Desai | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Learning, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

Managers have a big influence on the culture and happiness of the workplace. Hear from Google’s manager development team on how they select, train, and support managers.

Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Training & Development

A retired brigadier general explains how companies can prioritize talent development.

Content: Article | Author: Bernard Banks | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Training & Development

Leaders need to understand and value the alternative credentials that are available. If I’m an employer, I need to be saying, “Here are the 12 competencies that I need you to get. I don’t care where you get them. You don’t need to spend $200,000 in four years to go do that. You just need to show us some proof.”

The idea that you enter at … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Lee Rubenstein | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

Companies can vastly raise the odds of success if they take the time to build the needed capabilities.

Content: Article | Authors: Amy Radermacher, Cinzia Lacopeta, Elena Dumitrescu, Erhard Feige | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Training & Development

About $8 billion a year is spent on diversity trainings in the United States alone. Now, I tried very hard to find any evidence I could. […] Sadly enough, I did not find a single study that found that diversity training in fact leads to more diversity. Now, that’s disappointing, discouraging, but maybe when we unpack it also understandable. The unpacking means that there’s a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Iris Bohnet | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development, Women in Business

We asked executives to tell us about the circumstances in which their leadership-development programs were effective and when they were not. We found that much needs to happen for leadership development to work at scale, and there is no “silver bullet” that will singlehandedly make the difference between success and failure. That said, statistically speaking, four sets of interventions appear to matter most: contextualizing the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie, Nicolai Nielsen | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Training & Development

If you don’t consistently teach more and more people how to make the decisions or find resolutions consistent with your company’s goals, you’re going to stall out. Trust saves a huge amount of time.

Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Training & Development, Trust

One of the biggest challenges any growing company faces is equipping employees with the information, agency and confidence to make decisions for the company on their own. As a founder or executive leader, you can’t always be there to make a call. You have to trust that others can do it in order to keep pushing the frontier of your business. To make this possible, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

The vast majority of organizations put too much leadership development emphasis on people who are already in traditional leadership roles. And not enough on the people who are the promise of the future.

Content: Article | Author: Digby Scott | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

We’ve confirmed that vocational skills can be taught (you’re not born knowing engineering or copywriting or even graphic design, therefore they must be something we can teach), while we let ourselves off the hook when it comes to decision making, eager participation, dancing with fear, speaking with authority, working in teams, seeing the truth, speaking the truth, inspiring others, doing more than we’re asked, caring … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Seth Godin | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Skills, Training & Development

Although diversity and inclusion training is prevalent in corporate America, its impact is inconsistent. According to the evidence, sometimes the programs even have the opposite effect of what they intend. One 2016 study of 830 mandatory diversity training programs found that they often triggered a strong backlash against the ideas they promoted. “Trainers tell us that people often respond to compulsory courses with anger and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Rock, Heidi Grant | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

Effective feedback helps people see themselves in new ways.

Content: Quotation | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Subjects: Coaching, Human Resources, Management, Training & Development