By Udeet Datta In our last post, we spoke about the diet fad dilemma. You know the one – you have all intentions of starting anew with healthy recipes, a regular workout routine, and lots of kale smoothies. You start … Continue reading The Curse of Habits
Despite our best efforts, we can’t expect more than 1-in-3 learners to apply the new behaviors they’ve learned for more than a year1. And while one out of three is better than none out of three, the lack of success creates a huge opportunity cost for those who don’t change. Continue reading Leadership Development Is Coming Up Short – Here’s Why
If we see learning as a one-time cram-session, then we are all living in the zombie apocalypse of my Organic Chemistry 101 class. With this mindset, yes: the classroom learning will do nothing to help sales or your emails (or in my case, my knowledge of chemistry). But truly learning and sustaining a behavior is the key to unlocking new skills and potentials that in turn teach you how to manage an overflowing inbox or reach sales goals more effectively. Continue reading Where Leadership Development & Chemistry 101 Meet
By AchieveForum CEO, Scott Bohannon In 1962, NBA hall-of-famer Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single basketball game. No one has come close since. Wilt made 28 out of 32 free-throws during that game and a career-high 61 percent … Continue reading Fostering Leadership Development That Lasts
The December 2018 study, All-Agile HR, by Kienbaum and the DGFP confirms that the HR function in German companies only has a degree of agility that ranks second out of a total of four levels of agility. With an average value of 2.81, German companies are still novices, as opposed to experts, and still need to grow. Continue reading How HR Departments Can Defy the Agility Trap
Come visit us at ATD 2019 for demos, giveaways, and a chance to win a FREE year of Alliance. Continue reading Effectively Developing Leadership at ATD 2019
We need to shift our mindset from preparing a few leaders for specific situations to helping all leaders succeed in every situation. It’s time for a new approach. Continue reading AchieveForum returns to ATD 2019
Sustainment has long been a focus for professionals in leadership development. After all, we want to ensure that the time and energy we’ve invested in development actually lasts. Unfortunately, data shows that current success rates for sustainment efforts are quite low as leaders struggle to apply and maintain learning over the long term. Our research shows that we need a radical mindset shift about what sustainment is, and how we design with it in mind. At its heart, leadership development is about behavior change. This means that any sustainment effort should be primarily focused on enabling long-term behavior change. Current … Continue reading Rethinking Sustainment: Immersion as a Learning Tool