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L&D Trends for 2022: The State of the Learner in the Pandemic

L&D professionals were asked to share their perspectives on the health and wellness of their workforce, their learning successes, and the challenges they’re expecting in 2022.
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The One Minute Manager At 40: Ken And Margie Blanchard On Leading Today

Re-reading this classic today is a reminder of just how simple the job of helping your people get better can be—and how essential, especially at a time when retaining great talent is the whole ballgame for companies.
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Now is the Time for Servant Leadership

Servant leaders — leaders devoted to making the welfare and growth of their people the priority — are needed urgently for the post-pandemic world. Here are five ways you can be one.
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Creating and Communicating Your Leadership Point of View

When you share your leadership point of view with team members and colleagues, you’ll build close, trusting connections that will help you, them, and your organization flourish together.
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Resetting Leadership Training and Development Strategies

COVID-19 has been a catalyst to rethink L&D. From communicating face to face to connecting digitally, the new capabilities leaders should acquire present both challenges and opportunities.
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Supercharge Your Learning Programs with Follow-up Coaching

Coaches can be invaluable in helping people apply what they’ve learned.
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How Coaching Can Ease the Rocky Return to the Office

If we have learned anything, it is that employees can be trusted to be flexible. The least we can do is provide leaders with coaching resources to be the type of leader people have earned.
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Four Mindsets for Adapting to Change

The more change-adaptive we are as individuals, leaders, and organizations, the better we will be able to meet each change that comes our way.
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COVID-19: A Turning Point for Business Management

While we will all be glad when the pandemic is truly over and we can hug our loved ones again, let’s remember to celebrate the positive new norms that have come from the struggle.
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Mid-level Managers: Don’t Eliminate Them, Invest in Them!

Research conducted by The Ken Blanchard Companies makes the case that the most successful organizations are those in which senior leadership sees real value in strong mid-level leadership capabilities.
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Leadership and the Return to the Office

What leaders say and do next will set the tone for the weeks and months that follow.
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The Art of the Pivot

Try these four tactics the next time you have to change direction.
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