September 2010

Carnival of HR at ReThink HR

September 29, 2010

The Carnival of HR is back in town and this time it’s being hosted by Benjamin McCall, a fellow learning and development professional. Benjamin has been busy lately, ramping up with a new role as Leadership Performance Consultant for Standard Register, blogging at Rethink HR and acting as editor for a soon-to-be released anthology e-book [...]

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Leaders: Maximize Employee Training

September 24, 2010

“How do we begin to change the culture of expectations in our organizations where instead of being held accountable for participating in learning and development activities, people will be held accountable for applying and using and changing their job performance?” –Robert Brinkerhoff This quote appeared in the August 2010 issue of T+D magazine. Brinkerhoff [...]

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Leadership NOW

September 16, 2010

About six months ago, I met Anne Perschel and Marion Chapsal the way in which I meet many business colleagues these days—through social media. Over the past six months we’ve shared stories via email, conducted phone call conversations and commented on each other’s blogs. Several weeks ago, Anne began posting tweets on a “secret project” [...]

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Tasty Salsa and Avoiding Snap Judgments

September 8, 2010

If you’ve been a People Equation reader from the start, then you know that last year, I taught myself the hot-canning bath method of preserving food and learned a few things along the way. This year, I used the Labor Day weekend to do some late-summer canning. At my request, Mr. People Equation obligingly stopped [...]

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Using Toys for Childlike Learning

September 3, 2010

Today I’ve got my Corporate Trainer hat— if you do too, I want to know: Do you use toys in your classroom session? I’ve been bringing what I call Fiddle Toys to my classroom learning sessions for nearly 20 years and they’re always a hit. I find that giving learners something active to do with [...]

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The Z Factor

September 2, 2010

KNOWING WHEN TO ZIP YOUR LIP IS KEY TO SUCCESS Given that my company’s tag line is “master the people equation”, I’m always on the look-out for clever “equations” that tie to human dynamics. Of course, people are far too complex to be reduced to one “correct” answer like a math equation. Still, it’s fun [...]

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