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Feedback

Effective Feedback: what, why and how?

Even if you feel like feedback hasn’t played a big role in your development, think about the last time you had an argument with your partner. That’s feedback. Feedback is everywhere around you.

Skills

Skills of the Future: What Skills Will Be Most in Demand in 2020?

One of the best ways to prepare for future changes is to harness the skills that will be in high demand in the years to come.

learning organizations

How Becoming a Learning Organization Can Benefit Your Company

Whether you’re a burgeoning startup or a fortune 500 company, it is inarguable that continued, sustained learning is a key driver for success.

transformational leadership

The Power of Transformational Leadership

Behind every great company is a great leader. We look to our leaders to inspire, motivate, and guide us to achieve greatness. Many of us can still think back on one or two great leaders in our professional lives that drove us to success.

Employee effectiveness

The True Motivational Drivers for Employees, and Why They Matter for Any Company

The consequences for companies of understanding the motivational drivers of their employees are huge. Thus, not only should managers recognize that people’s motivational drivers differ, but also evaluate if their workplace fits to the employees’ working style.

Employee effectiveness

Efficiency and Effectiveness at Work: What is the Difference?

Many companies pride themselves on their efficiency, having implemented processes and systems that allow employees to maximize their tasks in the shortest amount of time possible. However, an effective company or employee is something entirely different.

creativity

Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in Your Workplace

It is clear today that companies that fail to innovate will struggle to keep their market share. So what can companies do to encourage workers’ creativity?

employee engagement

Is Low Employee Engagement Holding Your Company Back?

Low engagement among employees can have far reaching results for companies too, resulting in high turnover, low team morale, and a loss of company profits.

interview

Transforming a Corporate Mindset into an Entrepreneurial Mindset

As an entrepreneur-turned-coach, Claas now guides people toward changing their companies for the better: helping them to develop a vision with an entrepreneurial mindset and employee empowerment at its core.

interview

How a Marketing Consultant Thinks About Innovation

For Martina Etemadieh, developing innovative ways of communicating and telling stories for some of the biggest companies around is just another day at the office.

interview

Why I Won’t Work for an Organization That Doesn’t Prioritize Company Culture

With five years in the startup world under her belt, Laura Bruestle has witnessed firsthand how vital it is that companies invest in company culture, not just for the wellbeing of employees, but to boost their motivation and company growth as a whole.

innential

Let’s Talk! Innential is Conducting Research on Employee Development

Innential is conducting research and interviewing HR professionals on the state of employee development, current trends, compelling approaches and best practices.

leadership

Living Leadership

It is the question that has been floating around the business world for decades: how do we become more effective leaders?

Perfectionism

Fighting Perfectionism, Striving for Excellence

The media-entrepreneur-turned-trainer and writer Ela Crain discovered several years ago how her perfectionist tendencies were undermining her happiness and success, and decided to make a change.

interview

The Art of Agile

Albert Einstein once said: “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” It’s hard to argue that this era is characterized by its fast pace and bold inventions, making the willingness to adapt all the more vital for success. That’s what got Matthew Caine interested in Agile.

interview

Adiba Salloum on Training and Professional Development in Berlin’s Startup Community

We talk to Adiba about her experience as an HR manager in the startup scene, her unique approach to learning and training, and how she’s working to make the lives of refugees better here in Germany.

interview

Lessons From a Business Trainer: If You Want to Change Things, You Have to do Something That’s Different

We talk to transformational trainer and coach Jazmin Medrano about the personal journey that led her to become a business trainer.