Business efficiency is all about maximizing team performance while minimizing business costs. With that goal in mind, it’s no wonder so many companies are making the switch to virtual training for leadership development. But things aren’t always what they seem in virtual training. Here’s what to look for.     Spotting Fakes: 3 Impostors, 3 […]





Motivating Employees without Just Raising their Salary If you’ve ever been sucked into a conversation about compensation—yours or anyone else’s—you’ve probably heard the seemingly never-ending debate around what motivates people most. While there are many ways of rewarding good behavior, are commissions and other extrinsic financial rewards all we’ve got to work with here? Where […]





In the employee training and leadership development industry, we are seeing more and more companies transitioning to a virtual training environment. Virtual training is training that is completed online either in an on-demand or a instructor-led training environment. Many companies making the switch choose virtual training (or e-learning) because it is more flexible, more affordable, […]





The Benefits of Delegating Delegating can be a hassle. Trust us, we get it. It feels like it takes more time to explain how to do something than it would to just do it yourself. Not to mention when it eventually does get done, it’s never quite how you would have chosen to do it […]





The Flipped Classroom Model & Why It’s Important in Long-Term Success by Patrick Bosworth Are You Dooming your Employee Development to Failure? The Flipped Classroom Model & Why it’s Important in Long-Term Success   More and more professional learning experts are switching to a “Flipped Classroom” teaching style which utilizes preliminary self-study before an actual […]





by Patrick Bosworth   Effective Business Training & Development The “flipped learning” concept has broken into the leadership development and management training industry, but what exactly is “flipped learning” and what does an effective flipped classroom environment look like? In a flipped learning setting, students are given self-study materials that introduce a subject before any further learning takes place. […]





While studies show most HR professionals and executives are dissatisfied with their current performance management system, the solution may not be as simple as eliminating performance reviews.





by Patrick Bosworth     Why you Have the Wrong Idea About Delegating Leaders should focus on delegation as a means for developing their team, engaging members in long-term company success, achieving more loyalty and effectiveness, and increasing overall job satisfaction.     From Hassle to Asset Delegating can be a hassle. Trust me, I get […]





  Recently, our president and founder, Patrick Bosworth, spoke with Todd Nordstrom of O.C. Tanner about pilots, new leaders, the Management Death Zone, and what exactly makes modern management training so ineffective.   In this podcast, originally published on the O.C. Tanner Institute Blog, Patrick discusses something he dubs the Management Death Zone. What is […]