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Top Challenges for L&D Leaders in 2023

In departments, organizations and industries around the world, what is the one thing that has remained constant throughout the past three years?
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Most Inspiring Leadership Development Coach: Madeleine Homan Blanchard

“I have spent the last 33 years working passionately on first making coaching a legitimate profession, then experimenting with the application of coaching to improve large, complex systems.”
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Trusting Servant Leadership Can Quash Quiet Quitting

Quiet quitting is nothing new, and it’s a global dilemma. But what can be done about it?
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Multimodal Learning: Let’s Start a Learning Revolution

To truly meet the needs of every learner, you need to develop an understanding of instructional diversity.
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Check in with Your People So They Don’t Check Out

If leaders were more in tune with the needs of their team members and more focused on meeting those needs, quiet quitting would be far less common.
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Want to Attract the Best People? Try Candor and Curiosity

The often repeated adage, “People don’t leave organizations, they leave managers,” is as true as it ever was.
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Eight Steps for Dealing with An Underperforming Employee

Why do most leaders shy away from confronting poor performance head on? My experience has shown that it is normally because they don’t know where to start. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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What Can Your Managers Do Now to Drive The Great Retention?

The Great Resignation is creating unprecedented challenges for leaders, many of whom were already struggling under the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Column: Best-Selling Author Ken Blanchard Has a New Book for the Leader in All of Us

Ken Blanchard and co-author Randy Conley bring ‘Simple Truths of Leadership’ to Warwick’s bookstore on June 1st.
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Immersive Learning and VR Usher In the “New Era” of Leadership Training

“What is it like to walk in someone else’s shoes? Books allow us to imagine it, and movies allow us to see it, but VR is the first medium that actually allows us to experience it.”
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Combat The Great Resignation With a Culture of Learning

People want to grow. It’s a basic human need. And organizations that create cultures of learning are going to satisfy this and keep their people—an urgent need during the time of The Great Resignation.
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Rancho Bernardo’s Ken Blanchard Has New Book on Leadership’s ‘Simple Truths’

Ken Blanchard has added “Simple Truths of Leadership” to his list of more than 65 books he has co-authored over the past several decades.
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