Leadership Training

June 25, 2018

6 Soft Skills To Teach Your Leaders

Many corporate training programs overemphasize (or, worse, focus solely on) hard skills development. Yet, a balance between hard and soft skills is essential for a business to thrive. In this article, we examine the importance of leadership training and the soft skills a great manager should possess.

by Nikos Andriotis

April 20, 2018

Best eLearning Partner For Leadership Programs: 4 Key Parameters

Training managers who want to develop leadership programs need to check if their eLearning partners meet some key parameters that are essential for developing effective leadership programs.

by Ayesha Habeeb Omer, Ph.D

March 3, 2018

How To Prepare First-Time Managers For Managing Your Employees

The most powerful learning will happen at the moment of need, and there will be plenty of these moments for new managers starting out on this path.

by David James

January 20, 2018 | Sponsored

Leading Millennials Vs. Managing Them: Why The Difference Matters

As the younger workforce grows, leading Μillennials will require a shift from a style of top-down management to collaborative inspiration. Talent and development leaders who are working with the emerging millennial workforce should keep in mind what engages them and use that to lead them.

by Dan Westmoreland

October 22, 2017

Myths And Beliefs Of Leadership Trainers Continue To Propagate

Many learning practitioners continue to hang on to outdated preconceptions about what business leaders believe about training. Begin with these 3 key points before making a quick judgement about what your leaders may, or may not, believe.

by Ajay Pangarkar, CTDP, CPA, CMA

July 23, 2017

Immersion Training In Senegal: Leading Global Innovation In Higher Education

After a highly selective and intensive 4-months preparation (January to April), the first 20 talents of FAST (Fast-track Acquisition of Skills Training in Technology, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship) are now ready to be immersed at leading enterprises in Senegal.

by Merel Roos van Zelderen

July 21, 2017

5 Essential Training Skills To Keep In Your Back Pocket

Whether you're recent to the training function or seasoned veteran, these fundamental training skills are worth revisiting and refreshing when conducting any type of learning session. Practice them regularly and participants will embrace learning through your effective training approach.

by Ajay Pangarkar, CTDP, CPA, CMA

June 19, 2017

5 Personalization Strategies Elucidat Uses To Make Leadership Training Stick

Using personalization strategies is vital because it helps make leadership training stick. But every potential leader doesn't need the same leadership training. Read on to learn 5 personalization strategies to improve your leadership training.

by Steve Penfold

April 2, 2017

5 Ways To Use Simulations To Develop Leaders: Risk-Free, Realistic Leadership Preparation

The often repeated phrase “Good leaders aren’t always born – they can be made!” is true. Quite often though, these leaders are created with the help of highly sophisticated software; and not in boardrooms or around negotiating tables, but behind a screen and a keyboard! While traditional leadership development tools, such as learning exchange, action learning, and role-rotation, are good, they can be time consuming. There may be a considerable lag-time from the time that future leaders enter such programs, to the time they finally emerge as fully trained leaders. The use of simulators is a very quick, cost-effective, and risk-free way to develop leadership skills; and many world class organizations have already embraced them. In this article, we’ll talk about different ways to use simulations to develop leaders.

by Marina Arshavskiy

March 27, 2017

3 Easy Ways Learning Managers Can Use Mobile Learning For Better Leadership Training

Do you have demands and requests for more relevant leadership training? Here are some great tips on how to use mobile learning to deliver meaningful, engaging leadership training with high impact.

by Kristin Garn

October 5, 2016

Context In Leadership Training: Without Context, Leadership Training Will Fail

When a company implements a leadership training initiative, they shouldn’t lose sight of the context of the workplace, the workers, and the work overall. Why do they need to address context in leadership training? Because leadership training fails when it tries to churn out the same type of leader for every situation.

by Keith Gibson

September 8, 2016

4 Steps To Achieve Strategic Alignment

This article looks at 4 steps to building a strategic Training and Development program within a growing company. Without effective strategic alignment, a company is limiting its speed of growth and effectiveness.

by William Hall