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Management is for softies – but it gets solid results: Bob’s story

The Management Centre

When we put together management training, we like to involve potential participants in the design. This co-creation approach has some real benefits – participants are engaged early on, and we can understand exactly what their management challenges are and ensure the training is tailored to meet their needs. Things to change.

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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention

Harmonious Workplaces

I allowed my typical goatee to return, and, on the first meeting with the team, this individual grimaced and said they didn’t remember me having a beard and that it made me look very old. Organizations should begin with job analysis performed by trained I-O Psychology professionals.

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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

Chris sheds light on our collective discomfort with uncertainty and how coaching and consulting can train us to build resilience during such tricky times. First coined by Arnold Van Gennep, it is a fascinating term that captures the transitional phase between what was and what is yet to be.

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Boeing Starliner Failure: Lessons for Your Lean Program

Markovitz Consulting

The problem with this engineering marvel? The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. No, the problem was with the internal clock. Does your lean program face the same problem?

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How to Design Corporate Training that Works

LSA Global

It is Not Easy to Design Corporate Training that Works. In fact, one of our most experienced and successful instructional designers combines divergent and convergent thinking with engineering and a more artistic workflow. Sometimes, he generates several ideas for experiential training activities. Training Objective.

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How to Have Effective and Enjoyable Workplace Meetings

Nash Consulting

How to Have Effective and Enjoyable Workplace Meetings This meeting started 10 minutes late. Can we just get this meeting started already? I literally have no clue what we’re meeting about. Boy, do I have a lot of work to get done that I’m not doing as I sit here in my fifth meeting of the week. It’s Tuesday.)

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The Subtle Stressors Making Women Want to Leave Engineering

Harvard Business

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.