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Many employees put teamwork and recognition at the top of the list of keys to improving workplace climate, but each business climate depends on the goals of the business. Focus on analyzing the kind of climate you need, whether it’s about innovation, customers, or collaboration.

Letting the Training department assume responsibility for core competencies sets you up for failure. You’re not in a position to implement organizational strategies. What you can do is provide a direct link between the core competencies your organization has chosen and your department’s specific training offerings in terms of employee competence.

In a flipped classroom at work, lectures are delivered outside of class via online video, and classroom time with teachers is used to do homework and work through any difficulties.

Bad bosses have always made great fodder for the workplace and blogosphere—not to mention film and TV. But is there really an epidemic of horrible bosses in corporate America? More than 70 percent of respondents to an anonymous online survey claimed to have a good working relationship with their boss. Respondents also overwhelmingly identified a few key traits that set good managers apart from bad.

Everybody talks about time-to-market of products and services. It’s a B-school staple. But there’s another angle to agility: Training departments must provide a strategic competitive advantage in the time to market of information and skills.

Ask a training professional about a certain skill set for employees and you’ll often hear something like, “Oh, we trained them on that two years ago.” The built-in assumption is, once you train employees on a topic, they’ve mastered it forever. But you can’t expect your learners to remember the six buying influences after seeing them once and never hearing them mentioned again. There needs to be a training vehicle to remind them of what they learned and reinforce its usage on the job.

Many company owners talk about their efforts to build a strong staff in terms of teambuilding activities. But building a strong team starts with talent—identifying, attracting, and deploying the right players to achieve your company’s goals and take on your mid-level responsibilities, thereby freeing you up to focus on performance and sustainability.

To be a true influencer in the lives of those you lead, it is vital to understand a simple, but powerful question. It goes like this: “Are you for me, against me, or for yourself?” The leaders who are for me believed in me, listened to me, appreciated my gifts, and invested in my life in significant and valuable ways.

Having a project assurance methodology gives you the power to go beyond traditional project management barriers and gives you the answers you need to assure project success. It helps you to identify and resolve the strategic, tactical and intangible issues—and manage the human factors—before issues become insurmountable. And best of all, project assurance gives you (and everyone else involved) peace of mind that the project is on the right track.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking social networking is all about telling the world what you had for breakfast. Or only an obsession of geeks. Just the opposite: Social networking has reached a tipping point. It’s transforming the way managers gather information, inform, negotiate, motivate, inspire, instruct, empower, forecast, and sell. Here are 14 principles you can use for effective networking.

Why do organizations encounter a corporate divide when it comes to communication? One reason is because communication often is seen from the communicator or presenter’s point of view. Unless the presenter incorporates the recipient’s needs and frame of reference in the message, the communication will remain ineffective.

Q:  My organization struggles with giving unfavorable performance reviews. We tend to focus on the positive aspects of an employee's performance and skip over their weaknesses and mistakes. Needless to say, this doesn't bode well for our bottom line. What advice can you offer?