Agile leadership is not about the tactics, tools or techniques associated with agile methodology. To move in that direction, learning leaders must take steps to embody agile values in their behavior and to embed them into their team’s operations.
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IQ and EQ — intelligence quotient and emotional intelligence — have been hallmarks of success in the past. A new success trait is what Silicon Valley Bank vice president Natalie Fratto calls AQ — the adaptability quotient.
Let’s call it the elevator test: For content to have a chance at success, it needs to be deliverable to end users in the time it takes them to use an elevator, from waiting for it to arrive to leaving it.
Despite a healthy budget spent on leadership development each year, we continue to see Gallup polls that identify approximately one-half of the workforce as “not engaged.” Worse, an additional 16.5% are “actively disengaged.”
Training delivery has grown from traditional, in-class, instructor-led courses to dynamic, agile learning methods that encompass webinar, VR and AI models. These changes mean that instructors are now students on a journey to prepare for the future.
As a leader, it falls to you to determine who on your team does each job. How do you handle the tasks no one wants to do? First, consider the more popular tasks — the ones that have multiple volunteers willing to take them on.
Employees want to learn and grow, but they simply don’t have the time to do it. We live in a busy world, but is time the real culprit? Is it truly what’s stopping employees from attending and completing training?
Throughout my professional career, I have seen the topic of self-care come up rarely. It’s a shame, because it is not a nice-to-have; it is crucial to my well-being. Life is busy, and the workplace can be overwhelming.
Most of us have at least a passing familiarity with yin and yang. This philosophy recognizes two opposing forces, contradictory yet inseparable, which continuously vie with one another while perpetually seeking harmonious balance.
Imagine, at the end of a day of training, knowing you were impactful, the attendees had new actions to take, and they left with the confidence they could take those actions. That is the definition of a satisfied trainer.