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Four Classroom Teaching Differentiators in a World of TikTok and Other Digital Innovations

Steve Shu Consulting

Invite constructive feedback. As an example, I have often told students that they will likely see Scrum/Agile project management methods when they go into the working world. Connect students to one another, perhaps via icebreakers. Set up a safe environment where people can learn. learning tools like R or Python).

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How to Cope with Secondhand Stress

Harvard Business

” But the good news is that we are not helpless, says Susan David, a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. Is there a conversation we should have that might lead to a more constructive outcome?” Case Study #1: Support your team and foster positivity within the ranks.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture

Harvard Business

It’s the “paradox of expertise”: The more closely you’ve looked at an industry, the more successful you’ve been in a company or a profession, the harder it can be to see new patterns, prospects, and possibilities. It’s free, but you do have to enter your email address to get the case study.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. PepsiCo is also a case study in the vertical health of the organization: getting to the right number of layers. a) Agility. 2: Shed the Layers (vertical health).

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). In practice, this mean setting up what I call “living laboratory” leadership development.