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Who is in the best position to determine what an individual needs to learn?  I’ll give you a moment to think about it…………….  The correct answer is…………….

Few people, if any, like being wrong.  It’s human nature to want to be right, sometimes even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.  How many times have you seen someone continue to defend a seemingly indefensible position, driven to do so by pure stubbornness?  (I’ve been a guilty party in this type of exercise).  Some people handle i

Maybe it is because I have always identified myself more as a pragmatist than an intellectual blowhard, but I find it quite amusing how many people out there continue to get caught up in semantically-based arguments around what exactly mentoring is and what it is not.  I recently

I read a brief article last week on msnbc.com (“Employee Perks Return as Pay Stagnates,”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41910703/ns/business-careers/) and thought it would make for a good discussion in thi

Here’s my thinking about collaboration software: you don’t need nearly as much of it as you think you do and you will need even less as time goes on.  Given the large emphasis on such solutions these days, I envision a number of perplexed looks on the faces of those o

Why old-fashioned mentoring programs are insufficient to meet today’s evolving needs

• Mentoring Matters - Triple Creek's Blog

About a month ago I had the opportunity and the pleasure to attend the annual Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference, which was held at Hamburger University (McDonald’s corporate university) in Oak Brook, Illinois.  About 300 learning leaders, mostly from the extended Chicagoland area, attended the day-long event focused on sharing emerging trends in the field of organizational learning.

If your mentoring program does not have an enterprise component to it, you’re doing it wrong.  To be fair, I should probably take a little time to explain what I mean.  It does