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Connecting Middle Managers: The Next Wave of Leadership Development
By David Austin
As baby-boomers exit the U.S. workforce, businesses are bracing for a dramatic increase in retirement rates, as well as a widening gap in corporate knowledge and leadership. In fact, between 2002 and 2012, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that more than 23 million workers will leave the labor force-the greatest number in history. Perhaps more compelling is the corollary, that more than 40 million new workers will enter the workforce during that same time frame. Chief learning officers who understand these new dynamics must prepare for the resulting change in leadership requirements. Learn More
E-Learning Trends
By Ryann Ellis
In August and September of 2004, Learning Circuits ran two separate online surveys. The first survey, "Learning Circuits Annual Trends Survey," asked LC readers about their general use of e-learning. It focused on respondents' current level of involvement in e-learning and budget dollars dedicated to e-learning. The second questionnaire, "Learning Circuits E-Learning Readiness Survey" asked respondents about specific tools they were using and to indicate management and employee support levels for e-learning. Combined, the results from these two surveys shed light on developing trends among organizations using e-learning. Learn More
Caveat Emptor: Coaching
By Arthur Amdurer and James Eicher
It probably doesn't come as a surprise that the business of coaching is booming. According to the consulting and outplacement firm, Lee Hecht Harrison the market for coaching is over $7 billion dollars per year. The Hay Group consultancy reports that between 25 and 40 percent of Fortune 500 executives use executive coaches. It seems like everyone is a coach, wants a coach, wants to be a coach, has a coach or wants to have someone on his or her staff coached. With a profession that is so fuzzy and littered with disappointment can the "coaching boom" soon lead to the "coaching bust"? Learn More
Intranet Trends to Watch For
By Shiv Singh
Intranets have come a long way since 1995 when they first caught our attention. Today they are used to address enterprise wide business challenges with budget parameters, timelines and resources that are on a much larger scale. Analysts and software vendors now earnestly publish reports and white papers on how to make intranets more usable and valuable to an organization -- something which they weren't doing a few years ago. Vendors are flooding the market with software that addresses the problem of information publishing, aggregation and retrieval on intranets. So what is in store for intranets next? Learn More
One Bad Apple - Before the Whole Bunch Spoils, Train Managers to Deal with Poor Performers
By Kathryn Tyler
Poor performers exist in every corporate office and on every factory floor. They're easy to spot: They're the ones who consistently arrive late and leave early, who fabricate excuses when things go wrong or deadlines are missed, and who cause colleagues to work overtime to fix their mistakes. Simply terminating a poor performer may be the least effective and most costly solution. Here are some ideas on how to train managers to deal with poor performers and imorive organizational effectiveness. Learn More
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