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Whose Skills are Lacking, Exactly?
My colleague Johanna Mickel pointed me towards a recent study about the skills gap in the American workforce in her blog post on the topic. The article in CIO about this study focuses on the interpersonal and business skills that are lacking, specifically for digital projects, and is based on resear
The Desire to ... Connect
At the ATD Conference yesterday, I attended a presentation put on by our friends at Caliper (we worked with them years back when forming the basis for our Talent Assessment tools) entitled Mental Toughness – Desire to Conquer in Sports and Sales. Caliper looked at assessments in sports for “go/no go
Data: Telling Stories with Numbers
Over on the PM College blog today, Crystal Busch and I were dissecting a presentation on learning trends by Elliott Masie when one topic hit a nerve. Most learning organizations, Masie said, don't know how to use the data they collect. Okay, I agree. But I'll take it a step farther: they don't know
At ATD 2019: Two Views of the Human Factor at Work
Going from session to session at ATD (see more conference posts on the PM College blog) I had an object lesson in the dynamic my editor, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, wrote about on this blog just a couple weeks ago in "Tra-La, It's May; Stay Positive, People!" She wrote about using the technique of Ap
Oprah! Now That I Have Your Attention ... See Our Series about Talent Development This Week!
We are about to unleash a week's worth of reading on our PM College blog readers, covering all the amazing sessions that Crystal Busch and I are attending here at ATD 2019 in Washington, DC. But first ... that fantastic Monday morning keynote. If ATD was trying to get our attention, it worked. Opra