So much corporate money investment to learn. Too little investment in ways to remember. When we add cost of training, such …
Forget what you learned
That training program you endured was a waste of time. Forget what you learned. Just take a day and you already …
The 2 most important learning metrics
CEOs care about learning programs. To gain more executive-level interest, guess what learning and development folks? CEOs want metrics. Give them …
Fast Start — The importance of agility
Fast Start conversation: People who operate and respond in an ambiguous environment today provide the greatest organization, comparative advantage. The competency …
3 tips for anyone to design or evaluate training
You can not change what you can not measure. The value of training is on trial, a trial to prove training’s return on investment. With money scarce you need to identify the dollar impact on training. Here are 3 tips for anyone who to evaluate training.
The value of training on trial
Our ability to become, or remain, relevant comes down to an ability to adapt. To adapt means to learn and an …
Fast Start — CFOs’ top five priorities
Fast Start conversation: A Chief Financial Officer’s life is always top-line growth and bottom-line results. You may be forgiven if that …
Social Media: Fight, Flight, or Friend — organization development presentation
Below are the slides from today’s Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business conference in St. Louis. To view presentation within this …
Root cause and critical path, that’s organization development
What is organization development? Yes organization development: It is almost more confusing than helpful to really say what organization development is. …
The best meeting icebreaker to break the ice
Know your audience is a constant refrain. But sometimes, as a facilitator, trainer, or consultant, you may not, always, know your audience knows each other or what they will do together.
The icebreaker’s intent? Loosen things up, meet people, set the stage for effective work. Meeting icebreakers can be as painful as a bucket of ice down your shorts. Icebreakers run the risk of turning people off before you have even started the heavy lifting on why you are there.
Here is an icebreaker I have run for a least 10 years with consistent success setting up collaboration.
Fast Start — Why being wrong is good for you
Fast Start conversation: We can not all be right. If someone is right, that implies someone is wrong. How does someone …
8 steps to better decision-making
We now have access to more information than we can possibly process. All that information does not always mean better decision-making. …