Laura Helliwell, Author at Harvard Business Publishing https://www.harvardbusiness.org/author/lhelliwell/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:16:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Why We Need to Make Every Manager a Great Coach https://www.harvardbusiness.org/why-we-need-to-make-every-manager-a-great-coach/ Tue, 30 Apr 2019 19:08:03 +0000 http://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=45316 Earlier this month I was on a panel about coaching at the ASU GSV summit in San Diego. My panel colleagues included a L&D professional and three startups in the coaching space. We had a great conversation about the rising need for coaching skills in today’s workplace. As work evolves and looks quite different from how it does today, we need to help employees develop their learning agility and communication skills to be able to keep up. And that need is top of mind with employees, as well. In the past 12 months, a quarter of a million of our […]

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]]> Adding A New Dimension To Learning Through Virtual Reality https://www.harvardbusiness.org/adding-a-new-dimension-to-learning-through-virtual-reality/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:23:43 +0000 http://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=1646 You’ve probably seen pictures of an audience attending a 3-D movie in the 1950s. Two things will likely strike you: how formally dressed everyone is, and the odd cardboard-framed glasses everyone is wearing. 3-D has come a long way since people in suits were watching horror movies through red and green glassine lenses. In fact, it’s morphed into a virtual reality (VR) experience that’s so real it’s hard to tell VR from real reality. Recently, I spent an exciting afternoon battling zombies with my 13-year-old nephew in a VR entertainment complex. I’m as logical and left-brained as they come, and I knew […]

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