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Managers as Coaches: How To Get Started

Achievers

When you think about it, the role of a coach can be defined in the exact same way. It’s important to have managers as coaches in order to better understand the unique strengths of each individual worker. Why is a coaching perspective important? . Workers begin to see managers as coaches rather than as enforcers.

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The Great Generational Shift: How Employers and Managers Can Prepare

Everwise

While there are always different people of different generations working side by side in the workplace, today there are as many as six different generations, depending on which demographic definitions one uses. To be effective in today’s environment, managers must be strong and highly-engaged.

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Using Personalization to Activate Learners

Silkroad

Coaching and mentoring – Developing managers and leaders through one-on-one sessions can be an effective way to build a succession or replacement plan. It can also help the organization’s knowledge management efforts. Social – There’s some controversy about the definition of social learning.

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Part II “We Know More Than We Can Say: How to Use Tacit Knowledge

Conversation Matters

To gain meta-knowledge and/or problem-reformulation requires the source to be willing “to understand the problem as experienced by the seeker and then shape her/his knowledge to the evolving definition of the problem” and is best served by the give and take of conversation.

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Improving Knowledge Worker Productivity

Conversation Matters

As Knowledge Management professionals our job is the help organizations leverage their knowledge. Our attention is focused on the knowledge worker and our major task is to devise ways for those knowledge workers to share the knowledge they have gained with their peers. Knowledge Management Professionals.

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Microlearning: 5 Reasons Your Company Should Consider It

HR Bartender

Although by definition, microlearning would be shorter than standard training and therefore should be cost effective to produce, it’s possible an organization would have more microlearning options available. It could be a coaching tool. I think of coaching as being able to help someone reach their goals.

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The Essential Guide to Business Performance Management

Lattice

Read more: The Definitive Guide to Employee Engagement. How to Empower Your Employees with Better Knowledge Management. According to a McKinsey report on performance management, “ongoing development conversations between managers and employees support better outcomes. Think long term. Set good benchmarks.