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Leader Pulse

Leadership ideas, trends, and smarts

Leader Pulse

Welcome to Leader Pulse, DDI’s blog that has its finger on the pulse of leadership trends, practices, and ideas. Here, DDI’s leadership experts from around the world share insights, offer opinions and points of view, and spark debate on current leadership issues.

A VR Learning Environment Will Take Remote Learning to the Next Dimension

Your teams will shift from learning in the classroom to learning virtually. A VR learning environment can make it better than the real thing.

Posted: 25 Mar, 2020, by Scott Almes

5 Critical Steps to Creating a Successful Virtual Classroom Experience

The key to ensuring remote employee training and development will be effective is creating a successful virtual classroom experience.

Posted: 18 Mar, 2020, by Verity Creedy

Self-Awareness and Leadership: The Ins and Outs

It’s critical that leaders understand the ins and out of self-awareness and leadership, especially if they want to have a positive impact.

Posted: 11 Mar, 2020, by Diane Bock

Your New Executive Transitions are (Probably) Going to Fail

About half of executive transitions are considered failures. But why? Usually, it’s because they don’t get the support they need.

Posted: 04 Mar, 2020, by Matt Paese

The Importance of Intersectionality in Advancing Women Leaders

Your corporate women's empowerment programs must be intentionally intersectional to be effective.

Posted: 27 Feb, 2020, by Sage Krombolz

3 Workforce Trends for 2020 You Can't Afford to Miss

Workforce trends in 2020 show the landscape is shifting rapidly in three key areas, and organizations of all sizes, across the world, need to act in order to stay competitive in the war for talent.

Posted: 18 Feb, 2020, by Shirley Mayton

How to Hire Ethical Employees

The ethical violations many companies face today are forcing them to take a closer look at their hiring processes, especially when it comes to selecting ethical employees.

Posted: 12 Feb, 2020, by Elizabeth Ritterbush

Why Social Media CEOs Are Good for Business

Research shows a link between CEOs who are on social media and higher performance. But there are other reasons why social media CEOs are good for business.

Posted: 04 Feb, 2020, by Andrea Ruttenberg

For Women, Networking Is a Skill They Can't Ignore

When women supercharge their networks, they not only give their careers a boost, but also help give other women one, as well.

Posted: 29 Jan, 2020, by Tânia Fernandes Mendes

10 Insights from 50 Years of Innovation

As DDI celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, founder William C. Byham looks back on 10 leadership insights from five decades of innovation.

Posted: 23 Jan, 2020, by William C. Byham, Ph.D.

What Does Teaching People to Fish Have to Do with Taking Ownership of Learning?

A famous proverb talks about the necessary art of teaching people to fish. This proverb is analogous to what companies face when it comes to leadership development and teaching taking ownership of learning.

Posted: 15 Jan, 2020, by Bruce Court

Let’s Commit to More Effective Meetings

Poorly run meetings are assuredly as old as meetings themselves. But what is new is that we can now draw on a body of research to have more effective meetings.

Posted: 08 Jan, 2020, by Steven Rogelberg, Ph.D.

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