When Mentoring Relationships Change
If you plan on progressing in your career, it helps to have a mentor. Having someone who can share their experiences with you offers one of your best learning opportunities. Someone who is senior in position and in their years of experience can offer a lot of useful guidance. But once you get promoted, that […]
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- Jun, 27, 2019
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Jun, 27, 2019
Invest Now or Spend Later?
CFO: “What happens if we train our employees and they leave?” CEO: “What happens if we don’t train them and they stay?” Option 3: What happens if we don’t train them and then we have to fire them and start over? Businesses change. Companies buy other companies, new product lines get added, technology changes the […]
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- Jun, 24, 2019
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Tapping Into Internal Motivation
QUESTION: How do you know if your friends run marathons? ANSWER: Don’t worry; they’ll tell you. Last April, about 27,000 people ran 42.195 kilometers from the town of Hopkinton, Massachusetts in the United States, to a Finish Line in the city of Boston. The Boston Marathon attracts many of the best distance runners from around […]
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- Jun, 20, 2019
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Crowdsource Ideas to Grow Your Business
You may be pretty smart, there are plenty of other smart people out there. Never assume that, just because you are a leader, you have a monopoly on good ideas. Try to crowdsource ideas within (and potentially beyond) your organization. As you grow, you need to take advantage of emerging opportunities and deal with emerging […]
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- Jun, 17, 2019
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You Should Prepare For Learning
We talk a lot about developing your employees, but how about developing you? There’s a concept that says 70% of learning comes on the job, 20% comes through relationships, and only 10% comes through formal means. That’s not much time to spend in a classroom. When you will be taking a class, then, you should […]
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- Jun, 13, 2019
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