Fostering Agility In The Workplace

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by Abbey Lewis | April 12, 2018

The value of agility in today’s workforce cannot be overstated. Businesses are adapting faster than ever as they move toward flatter organizational structures. This shift means that there’s less adherence to stricter roles and hierarchies. Gone are the days when only senior leaders had to manage strategy and only business managers had to look at finances. Today, great ideas can come from any level of the organization, so there’s more focus on what employees bring to the table as opposed to their standing on the org chart. From a L&D point of view, this shift makes it even more important […]

Co-Creating A Solution For All People Managers At Hasbro

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by Lisa Ciampolillo | April 6, 2018

This blog post is a summary of a March 2018 webinar, entitled “Unleashing the Capabilities of All People Managers at Hasbro,” which was co-presented by Lisa Ciampolillo, director of talent development, and Sue Fairbanks, manager of talent development, at Hasbro. In 2015, Hasbro launched Management Academy, a global, cohort-based development program for all people managers worldwide. It is a custom blended solution co-created in partnership with Harvard Business Publishing. The initiative was driven by the business need for increased manager effectiveness at all levels. Management Academy had four goals: Set expectations around what it means to be a manager at […]

Highlights From Our Chicago Leadership Development Forum

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by Michelle Humes | March 30, 2018

Our Leadership Development Forum made its next stop at the University Club of Chicago. It’s continually a pleasure to bring together our regional partners at these events to really gain a sense of what’s on people’s minds. We continued our conversation around transformation, and the impact L&D can have on the success or failure of our transformations. Our panel discussions are always a highlight at these events, but this one in particular offered some critical insight into the practical things L&D leaders can do to ensure their leadership development programs support transformation efforts of any scale or scope. Here are […]

Leading And Following: Taking The Backseat When You’re Used To Being The Driver

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by Deanna Foster | March 22, 2018

Leadership is a complex concept, but it’s something we all seem to just intuitively “get.” Followership, by contrast, seems less complex, but can be more difficult to grasp. That’s because most of us don’t think of ourselves explicitly as followers. The word tends to get a bad rap. Followers? Those are people who go blindly along; that’s not us. In an interview on HBR.org, Susan Ashford, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, talked about the fluidity of leadership, and the need to be able to move between a leader’s and a follower’s role. Recently, her words […]

Highlights From Our Dallas Leadership Development Forum

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by Jen Sprague | March 14, 2018

We all know that transformation is incredibly difficult, so what does it take to be really successful in a transformation? At our recent Leadership Development Forum in Dallas, L&D practitioners from around the region tackled this question and more at the day-long event, sharing insight into their own organizations and learning new tricks from industry experts. It’s fitting that a forum focused on transformation was held at The C. R. Smith Museum and cohosted by American Airlines. Looking around the museum, you can see just how much the aviation industry has changed in so little time. Our host, American Airlines, […]