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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Virtual coaching can include asynchronous communications, such as email and text messaging through a virtual coaching app, and synchronous such as voice and video communications, that provide immediate feedback with a coach. The Center for Creative Leadership handbook of leadership development (pp. Ting, S., & & Hart, E.

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Psychology, Technology, and Incomplete Theory

NeoAcademic

My obsession with both professordom and Computer Science persisted until college, when a helpful CS professor told me, “the pay is terrible and everyone with any talent just ends up in industry anyway.” to register for each class (a truer academic calling I’ve never heard). The bright side?

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7 Ways People Quit Their Jobs

Harvard Business

Those currently entering the workforce are expected to engage in even more job hopping than prior generations, suggesting that employers may want to move beyond the simple notice policy in the company handbook and learn to encourage employees to resign in constructive ways.

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Thirty years of projects

Seth Godin Blog

1985—Tennis and golf on VCR, British video games on floppy disk and other Spinnaker projects.  It took me more than three years to get all the licenses I needed to launch this series of novels, each based on a video game that was popular on Nintendo. We did this at the same time we built The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook.

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Fidelity, compression and culture

Seth Godin Blog

You have to be there live, a reference recording on video isn’t the same. Nuance disappears as we swap one language for another, which is why a talented translator is so much more valuable than a computer doing the same work. Companies go from handbooks and memos to hallway conversations to Slack checkins. And meetings?

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A Winning Parental Leave Policy Can Be Surprisingly Simple

Harvard Business

An employee handbook update doesn’t usually merit a press release and glossy promotional video — except when there’s a benefits arms race on. The paid-parental-leave arms race is red-hot because employers see a unique opportunity to nab talent and headlines by one-upping their competitors.