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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

Endurance in the business of custom learning development is a key indicator that a provider is agile, innovative, responsive and able to consistently exceed client expectations. Additionally, effective partners don’t see sustainment as an “add-on” but as an essential element of learning and behavior change.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm.

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

Traditional marketing planning (TMP) activities have been a mainstay for the past four decades, but the theories behind them have limited relevance for new ventures facing extreme uncertainty. To be successful, new ventures must eschew these theories and instead rely on effectual marketing planning.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, if your company isn’t leveraging action learning to develop leaders, fuel innovation, foster collaboration, and catalyze growth then you are missing a substantial opportunity. My message is a simple one…stop pondering and pontificating make a decision and take action.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

.” You still see this Taylorite assumption that selling can be deduced to a series of behaviors in various areas: generic assessment tests, selling methodologies and “pitches” that allegedly apply across all sales situations, and chic “neuro-marketing” factoids about buying and selling. But a lot has changed.

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Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems

Harvard Business Review

Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Competing more effectively in existing markets is a completely different problem. What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? There’s a seemingly endless list of options to consider.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.