Content about Person Education

Tapping the resources and expertise of California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), The UPS Store created a hands-on training program to help its nationwide franchise network say, “We can print that.”

Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, authors of “The Progress Principle,” have been studying what they call inner work life—the confluence of emotions, perceptions, and motivations that occur continually throughout the workday. When inner work life is positive, people feel happy, have positive perceptions of their work and those they work with, and are highly motivated by the work itself. In their quest to find the forces that rule inner work life, the authors discovered that lower-level, local leaders —such as team leaders—can be surprisingly powerful.

The time has come for a new, integrated model for corporate learning. Technology should provide a platform for seamlessly delivering carefully selected, timely, role-appropriate learning opportunities at the right point in career development. Learner needs must drive the LMS, not the other way around.

Can spatially gifted, ultra-smart executives be developed? Yes, thanks to breakthroughs in neural science, say Morris Graham and Kevin Baize, authors of “Executive Thinking: From Brightness to Brilliance.” They document a neural technology of visual informational processing (VIP) training needed to increase capacity—to turbo-charge the right hemisphere of the brain for greater cross-connectivity and spatial assimilation to better accommodate new data.

Finding someone to just fill a seat at your company isn’t hard. But finding great people—the ones who fit with your culture, who share your vision, who can make immediate and lasting contributions—can be very difficult. This is true for small and large companies, as the right people can transform any organization.

If we are to become the leaders we have the potential to be, it is essential that we understand who we are and what we believe, says Doug Moran, author of  “If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21^st Century Leaders.” While there is a great deal of self-awareness associated with all of the “If” Sixteen Leadership Attributes, these first four in particular—character, authenticity, integrity, and self-efficacy—provide a strong foundation for self-awareness.

Why do leaders stray from the ethical path? Contamination by the proverbial bad apple? Greed? A character flaw? Each of these is a common explanation, but they miss the complexity of the world and how it influences a leader’s behavior. Leaders behave not only because of their character and personal compass but because of the world around them.

Many of us are still unclear about what coaching is. The key is to clarify the notion of coaching in the organizational context and to assist the person responsible for coaching (human resources director, sales director, or manager) to identify the most appropriate form of coaching in the circumstances.

You may have read many books on selling and attended numerous sales seminars. You might even have a private coach. But the success you’re striving for may still be elusive as long as your subconscious mind is running old programming that blocks or limits you. The good news, explain authors Jerry V. Teplitz and Tony Alessandra, is that there is a brain optimization process that easily reprograms and rebalances that old subconscious programming.

One way to rejuvenate battered spirits and restore discretionary energy is to rally your team around a common goal. See how an executive team used a three-step process to redeploy more than 100 hours of senior executive time toward value-added work.