Wed.Nov 21, 2018

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Instructional Design Trends: Combine Content and Tech

Clarity Consultants

When companies make the most of available tech when creating their L&D programs, they can ensure that the content is presented in a manner that fully engages the learner. This can increase overall retention while also making learning fun, ensuring that employees have a positive view of the experience. If you are looking for ways to combine content with the latest tech, here is how you can get started.

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The Importance of Hospitable Leadership in Hospitality

People Business Psychology

We often hear and read that leadership is crucial in business. In any business. Is this importance overstated? Having worked in the luxury-segment hotel industry, I subscribe to the idea that leaders have a strong influence of how, and how well, the workforce operates – especially in the hotel industry. Image courtesy and copyright of Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa, Wiltshire, UK (2018) Leaders not only influence how well their workforce (including several layers of leaders) do their work.

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Gratitude Filled Holiday

Chad Barr

Photo by: Chad Barr – My amazing grandkids. The British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote; “No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” As Thanksgiving approaches, I am keenly aware of the blessings of which I am surrounded both personally and professionally.

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Manage Your Intellectual Property

Johanna Rothman

When we manage product development for organizations, we work for hire. The company hires you, pays you a wage, and in return, your intellectual property belongs to them. When you’re creating a product larger than one person can create, this is an excellent proposition. While “one person” may have had the original idea, we need many people to refine the idea and bring that product to market.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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New Rules For Dress For Success For Men

Henry DeVries

Let’s face it, clothing is marketing. Are your clothes attracting or repelling clients?

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Confirmation Not Blind Belief

Martinka Consulting

As part of Jessica’s training we are reviewing one chapter a week from Russell Robb’s book, Selling Middle Market Companies (which is really about selling non-micro but still small to mid-sized businesses). Chapter four had a few topics near and dear to me. It started with the topic of preparing a business for sale. He strongly said sellers should not take on any big, new projects or purchases (that will hurt short-term performance but has long-term potential).

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Building More Trust Between Doctors and Patients

Harvard Business

pchyburrs/Getty Images. Health care practitioners have traditionally relied on clinical heuristics to select, encode and process information from the patient. When a patient is presenting with multiple and complex issues, these heuristics reduce the patient’s difficult question of “what’s wrong with me” to easier ones, such as “is this person presenting with depression”?

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The Roles of Trust and Conflict in Commitment

LSA Global

Roles of Trust and Conflict in Commitment for Team Dynamics. The roles of trust and conflict in commitment of your team members are critical and should be well understood. First Comes Trust. In his best-selling book on team-building, Five Dysfunctions of a Team , Patrick Lencioni famously describes the lack of trust as the primary reason that teams fail.

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Diagnosis

Seth Godin Blog

The easy way to figure out the problem is to try the treatment. If the treatment works, you probably had the problem the treatment was there to fix. But that’s dangerous, expensive and time consuming. It’s a lousy way to consult, to coach or to do medicine. Smart diagnosis leads to more commitment when the treatment is offered. It’s more difficult, but it might be worth the effort.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Will Wall Street Be Able to Earn the Trust of Younger Investors?

Harvard Business

Image Source/Getty Images. Uber and Netflix have fundamentally shifted consumer behavior and disrupted incumbent firms. In our research, we’re beginning to see signs that Wall Street is being threatened by similar forces. Uber and Netflix’s success were generated through two critical strategies. First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation.