Many of you know us as a learning company. But did you know that we also have an LMS, build online recruitment simulations, and weâve just introduced a new assessment tool. Itâs pretty nifty and lets you build your own assessments…
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Toxic positivity
The Urban Dictionary describes toxic positivity as âthe belief that, if you stay positive, you will overcome any obstacle,â to such a degree that you invalidate natural emotional responses and the person having those feelings.â People think theyâre being helpful…
Brené Brown knows things
Sarah Schuster writes about toxic positivity, including her take for how BrenĂ© Brown describes empathy. Sarah concludes: âIf sympathy is shouting down at someone while theyâre stuck in a hole, empathy is getting into the hole with them. If âtoxic…
Bad brainstorming kills ideas
Professor, author and innovation expert, Barry L. Cross has written a discussion paper for Queenâs University Smith School of Business on the topic of brainstorming and how storyboarding can help make brainstorming sessions successful: âMuch of what passes for brainstorming are…
Masterful storytelling
The Dodoâs âgoal is to serve up emotionally and visually compelling, highly sharable animal-related stories and videos to as many people as possible to help make caring about animals a viral cause.âWeâd go further and say they have one of the…
Let the music play
A few years ago, musician Scott Bradley decided to launch something called Postmodern Jukebox. The idea was to take modern songs and have talented musicians and vocalists perform them in styles from the past. For example, ABBAâs Dancing Queen done…
The big lies of strategy
Roger L. Martin is one of the worldâs more influential management thinkers and the Premierâs Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. His article on THE BIG LIES…
The power of empathy
Harvard Medical Schoolâs Dr. Helen Riess is an expert on the neuroscience of empathy, including developing online evidence-based online empathy training. She says, âWe are all connected on a neurobiological level far more than we have previously realized. Consciously or…
Get a government grant
We recently facilitated a webinar with RDP Associatesâ Brian Cookson and Greta Bianchi on the topic of getting a government grant for training and development. They succinctly highlight the types of funding and grants that are available, including for hiring and training.…
Speaking truth to leaders
When speaking uncomfortable truths to leaders, leadership, talent management and OD expert, Leslie Michener recommends the doâs and donâts shown below. Leslie also delivers more insights and stories in this webinar, including the relationship between truth and power in the…