Overcoming Fake Talk. How to Have Real Conversations

By Marcia Reynolds

How many conversations do you have that seem to go well but nothing happens as a result?

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Personally Disconnected. Why Don’t We Care?

By Don Brown

Our collective capacity to empathize, understand others and care about them crashed by 40% a few years ago. This is fact, statistically reliable and valid – we simply no longer care for one another as we once did.

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Posted in: Leadership

Climbing the Cloud. Essentials to Certification

By Bob Austin

During one of Microsoft’s recent tech events, a slide was shown that prompted cloud computing as the “5th generation of Computing”.

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Posted in: IT Training

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

By DJ Mitsch

I am guilty of chasing shiny objects given I am a serial entrepreneur, constantly creating the next new service or product. And like many entrepreneurs, I find the management of things I generate to be a bit of a challenge. Am I in good company? You bet.

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Tags: Coaching

Posted in: Leadership

Developing And Measuring Training The Agile Way Revisited

By Kaliym Islam

In August of 2012, I began a series of blog postings about the experience that The DTCC Learning Group had while implementing Agile as a development methodology for training programs (click here for a link to those posts). For those who are not familiar with the term, Agile is a software development technique that supports frequent releases of product features and functionality to customers. Agile accomplishes this by reducing the amount of administrative overhead typically associated with product development, focusing on human interactions more that on tools and processes, delivering working software as opposed to product documentation, collaborating with customers as opposed to relying on legal documentation, and responding to change as opposed to being restricted by a plan.

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Strategic Choices

By Dr. Andrea Shapiro

Much has been said about the need for committed leadership to drive successful change. Nonetheless, accounts like the following, which I recently heard from a colleague, are all too common.

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Leveraging Certification to Update HR Tools

By Tracey M. Flynn

Do you use your certification program to update your human resource tools? If you don’t, you’re not alone as many consider certification and its many deliverables as an isolated program.

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Posted in: Certification

We Are All Connected

By Don Brown

In last month’s blog, I discussed what I call ‘no-normal’ dynamics and their impact on all of us collectively and organizationally. But, what about the effect on each of us individually? What about the interpersonal impact?

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Posted in: Technologies

Developing Training With What You Carry In Your Pocket

By Kaliym Islam

Web video, as a means to deliver educational content, is clearly an idea whose time has come.

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Posted in: Mobile Learning

Learning While Online, Instead of Wasting Time

By Marcia Reynolds

How much time do you spend each week reading blog posts, scanning articles, and rushing through e-books to get the highlights?

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