Best of Management Minute
The Best of Management Minute (noun)
- the finest selection of industry news, trends, advice and more, from the past year of Management Minute, WATMEC’s monthly email designed to help you improve your workplace excellence
Evolution: From Manager to Leader
Managers don’t wake up on Monday morning and become leaders. It’s an evolutionary process. Yes, some are natural leaders. But others need time to develop techniques and skills to transform from order-givers to true leaders. In Evolution: From Manager to Leader, posted on Talent Management’s website in June 2014, Brady Mick tells us the leader-to-manager process can be broken down into six stages.
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Your Brain on Learning
By figuring out how the brain works, learning leaders can alter how they approach learning to promote behavioral change and increase business results. The May 2015 issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine, author David Rock tells us how brain research explains in specific detail how we learn, and how this provides insight for new ways to design learning solutions.
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Seven Steps to Learn From Failure
Failure is so hot right now that some consider it to be an untapped resource that can lead to more innovation, faster growth, and even employee engagement. In a blog posted May 4, 2015 on profilesinternational.com, authors of The Other F Word, Mark Coopersmith and John Danner, lecturers at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, share seven steps effective leadership can take to tap into failure’s potential.
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Six Ways Colour Affects Learning
That white and gold dress (or was it black and blue) many people talked about on twitter a few months ago has more to do with neurology than thousands of bored social media users. And learning leaders should take note. In a March 5, 2015 blog on clomedia.com, associate editor Kate Everson explains how colour affects us differently, and can be used to help employees learn more effectively.
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