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Restoring Workplace Trust
As trust is based on actions not words, our gut-level understanding of actual conduct and deeds determines who we conclude is trustworthy and not.
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Teaching Time: Training, Framing, Retaining, Sustaining
Training, framing, retaining and sustaining are keys to obtaining lasting business, behavioral and cultural results.
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The Final Four Verdict: Rutgers Fouls Out
Rutgers is a fine institution committed to building a respectful community. Parsing abusive conduct without regard to its impact on that community, its organizational values, reputation and overall brand is narrow, shortsighted and unworthy of the university.
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Does Stealing Attention Violate Your Code of Conduct?
For those who oppose more rules, how about a voluntary change in culture towards less—rather than more—needless, if not mindless, communication.
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Georgia March Madness Meets Watergate
Today, we focus on distributing Codes of Conduct, policies, check-the-box learning and other communications to prevent compliance and ethical disasters. Bud Krogh's message suggests we give greater emphasis to basic leadership and citizenship, not just rote standards.
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Power Hungry in Today's Workplace
We talk about performance as being the key metric which drives decisions. But too many choices are still guided by irrelevancies or illegalities. We can have every smart device available—or soon to be created—but they don't eliminate our own biases; they magnify and reveal them.
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Reaching the Learning Resistant
We should be considering how to make sure that all of our learning methods address conceptual resistance if we want our investment in education and talent to yield the best results, which is to prevent, detect and correct problems before they lead to workplace disasters.
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Credentialing, Competency, and MOOCs
Our lives will be enriched by technology with advances in learning and communication beyond the limited horizon of our vision.
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Lance's Lot—The Cost of Fraud
Every organization whether in sports, business, academia, or government has rules. But they're enforced retroactively, after the damage is done. We need to think more about the costs of our actions before we do them and temper our desire to win with integrity.
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When HR and Legal Worlds Collide
Organizations work best when legal and human resource professionals work together. That's how to prevent the legal and HR worlds from colliding.
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New Rules for New Communications
We can't follow these all the time, but there's no better time to try to change habits than at the start of 2013.
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An Open Letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Regarding Joint Chiefs of Staff Ethics Training
I'm willing to bet that the content of the courses is not the problem. The challenge is to determine what more the military can do through the programs' design and subsequent reinforcement to make sure that key lessons are absorbed, retained, applied and sustained by senior and flag officers.
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After Kubasik and Petraeus Scandals, Training Must Start at the Top
First, Christopher Kubasik, who was in line to become Lockheed Martin's CEO, resigned his position as a result of having a "close personal relationship" with a subordinate.
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Revisiting Penn State: If There's a Problem, Call, Text, Email or See Me
Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced for acts of sexual abuse committed against young boys. Likely, he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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Get Millennials Out of Their Comfort Zone When It Comes to Training
Letting students determine what delivery systems work best for them when there may be other more effective ways for them to master critical knowledge and applications is an abdication of leadership responsibility.
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Political Chatter in the Workplace? It's Possible to Be Civil
It's time to recognize that talking about politics can build workplace relationships, and mutual understanding.
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Talking Power, Safety and Bullying
Here's a quick recommendation. Virtually every organization includes “respect,” stated one way or the other, as a core value.
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Fly Fishing and Workplace Learning
What does fly fishing have to do with workplace learning, particularly on topics where leadership skill and communication are involved? Everything.
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My German Shepherd, Memphis, and Sustaining What We Learn
Teaching humans isn't usually as straightforward as teaching dogs. But the goals are the same.
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Sustaining Behavioral Change at Work: Technology Meets On-the-Job Leading and Teaching
How do we sustain what we teach? That’s the most frequent question I hear when it comes to workplace learning on civility, inclusion and compliance.
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Rapid Culture Change Is Possible
Most management books will tell you that culture change is extremely difficult and takes a long time. While that is often true, I know firsthand that culture can change almost overnight.
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Lessons From a 40-Year Reunion: What We Learn and Apply
Last weekend I attended my 40th reunion of the Hamilton College Class of 1972. I walked the hilltop campus with my closest friends, visited old dorms and classrooms and caught up with classmates I hadn't seen in many years.
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Learning Needs to Be Simple Enough to Make It Stick
In the workplace, when we try to teach concepts like listening to concerns, non-retaliation or other compliance topics, we often don't match how we teach to how we learn.
