This is Part Three in a series where I explore how a Lead with Learning approach to team development addresses many of the challenges organizations and leaders face. In this issue, I’m exploring leaders' challenges in hiring and retaining the team members they need to...
Lead with Learning Series: Employee Engagement
This is Part Two in a series where I explore how a Lead with Learning approach to team development addresses many of the challenges organizations and leaders face. I’m writing my next book, Lead with Learning, and admittedly, using this newsletter to write different...
Leader’s role in employee development
A recent conversation I had with a Senior Manager of Learning and Development for a national organization went something like this: “Our leaders need to be accountable for people development in our organization. It can’t be HR’s responsibility because it’s the leaders...
Lead with Learning Series: Organization resiliency and adaptability
This is Part One in a series where I explore how a Lead with Learning approach to team development addresses challenges organizations and leaders face. I’m writing my next book, Lead with Learning, and admittedly, using this newsletter to write different chapters....
Short-term results at the expense of learning
I want to start this month’s newsletter with a cautionary tale. In creating the Model T in 1908, Henry Ford proclaimed that he wanted to “build a motor car for the great multitude.” He achieved his vision, and by 1921, he was producing 56% of all passenger...
Conversations in the Cracks
I spent a week in Fiji earlier in October with a group of colleagues whom I've known for two years online. We're in a business leadership community and we gathered for a conference and workshop. As I landed back in Toronto after 21 hours of travelling, my tired brain...
L&D and Leaders’ roles in building employee capability
I recently had lunch with a client who manages a Learning and Development department. As our conversation unfolded, she shared how her team created a change management program for their leaders. The program focused on how people respond differently to change and how...