Featured Leadership Development Articles & Insights
7 Reasons You Should Get a Leadership Coach
There are several reasons a leader may consider hiring a leadership coach. New, inexperienced, or high-potential leaders may hire with a leadership coach to learn essential leadership skills or gain confidence in a new leadership role. Seasoned leaders may...
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4 Reasons to Choose Virtual Training Over Traditional
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...
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Formula for an Effective “Flipped Classroom” Management Training
Flipped classrooms are breaking their way into the leadership development and management training industry, but what exactly is a “flipped classroom” and what does an effective flipped classroom environment look like? In a flipped classroom...
Why you Have the Wrong Idea About 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...
What Does Effective Virtual Training Look Like?
6 Qualities of Effective Virtual Training I recently watched a speaker discuss the subject of empowerment. In this speech, he made the flippant comment that "virtual training" was an oxymoron. "Don't you have to see the action to be trained by it?" the...
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Why Communication-Based Learning Makes for Better Training
Why are communication patterns important in effective management training? Here at Leadership Choice, all of our training programs begin with our Connecting With People Workshop. Not only does this workshop give each participant insight into their own personal...
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The Flipped Classroom Model & Why It’s Important in Long-Term Success
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...
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What is Flipped Classroom Learning and Why Does it Matter?
by Patrick Bosworth You've probably heard about the flipped learning trend and how it's quickly becoming the training method of choice in the learning and development (L&D) industry. But what is flipped classroom learning and why is it so important...
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How to Improve Team Communication – 3 Steps
by Patrick Bosworth Communication in the workplace is one of the most influential aspects of business success or failure. A well-communicating team can move mountains together, while a poorly-communicating team can unintentionally (or...
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How to Empower Employees in the Workplace – 8 Tips
by Patrick Bosworth Empowering employees means giving your team members permission to take action and make decisions within your organization. It also means there is trust and understanding in place to ensure these actions are in line with company...
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6 Elements That Determine Success or Failure of a HiPo Leadership Program
Leadership expert Dave Boizelle discusses the formula he uses to design successful high-potential leadership programs. After many years of designing and delivering a Leadership Acceleration Program in partnership with a leader in...
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The Power of Good Communication in the Workplace
by Patrick Bosworth The Power of Good Communication in the Workplace Good communication is an important skill in any environment with human interactions. However, when it comes to communication in the workplace, good communication is an integral...
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3-Point Formula for an Effective “Flipped Learning” Business Training and Development Program
by Patrick Bosworth 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...
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8 Reasons Your Employee Development Sucks
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.
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Read This Before Eliminating Performance Reviews
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.
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A Salary Breakthrough: Motivate Employees Without Paying them More
by Patrick Bosworth 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...
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1 Essential Insight for Developing an Effective Employee Training Program
When developing effective training, viewing training as a process means a more defined pathway to follow up, reinforce learning, and “channel the steam.”
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Secrets for Managing the Nerdy and Brilliant
by Patrick Bosworth Even an outstanding team of engineers, computer programmers, developers, or systems designers will only be as effective as their leader allows them to be. After nearly two decades of experience working alongside brilliant (and...
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Leadership By Design
We have repeatedly heard that good leaders out-produce their less able peers by 20-50 percent in profitability, productivity, employee engagement, customer engagement, and employee retention.
We sought to study if and how good leadership can be created within organizations.
Is Communication Training Worth the Investment?
by Patrick Bosworth Organizations understanding that each team member has a different communication pattern and that each of these communication patterns is "good" are primed for success. You can't conduct business without words. That's not a...
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Leadership Is An Unpredictable, Individualized Sport
by Dave Boizelle Individuals learn leadership lessons in the unique and personal ways, often at unpredictable times. I was facilitating a high potential leadership team program when one of the participants interrupted me and blurted out, “I get it! I...
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You’re Not Asking These 8 Questions Before You Delegate – But You Should
by Dave Boizelle Delegating is a necessity in today’s fast-paced, multitasking work environments. In fact, in a recent Gallup study about delegation and leader talent profiles, researchers found that organizations run by CEOs with high delegator talent...
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7 Steps for Influencing Others in the Workplace
by Dave Boizelle Earlier this year I worked with an organization that wanted to create a culture of employee development. This was a big change from the way they historically developed their staff. Their culture at the time was very operationally...
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Drone Management: Are You Forgetting To Develop Your Leaders?
Make Sure Your Talent Development Factory Is Producing Pilots, Not Drones Make Sure Your Talent Development Factory Is Producing Pilots, Not Drones Brett Walker, President of Leadership Choice, recently published this article on TrainingIndustry.com....
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Is Communication Training Worth the Investment?
Is Communication Training Worth the Investment? The Truth Behind the ROI Of Team Communication Workshops You can't conduct business without words. That's not a miraculous discovery--we've known communication is important to business for centuries. We know that when we...
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