Digital disruption drives digital transformation in most organizations. In order to spark innovation and creativity, organizations need to engage and upskill employees in digital acumen.
Digital disruption drives digital transformation in most organizations. In order to spark innovation and creativity, organizations need to engage and upskill employees in digital acumen.
This issue of “What to Read” highlights Taming the Culture Tiger: The Art and Science of Transforming Organizations and Accelerating Innovation by Dr. Kate Price, which focuses on one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of life science organizations: how to foster sustainable cultures that enable innovation and lead to both scientific and business success....
Situation A high-growth, global medical technology organization had sales representatives at varying tenures, sales and leadership ability. All were tasked with continuing the double-digital growth in existing and new markets, not all were equipped to make it happen. Their HR Business Partner also recognized that these sales representatives fell into one of two categories with...
Participants adopt new behaviors from training and development when evidence-based content, engaging facilitation, use of adult learning methods and a culture of psychological safety is present. What is psychological safety and why is it foundational? Dr. Amy Edmondson refers to it as, “a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated by speaking up...
This issue of “What to Read” highlights Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter with Marissa Afton and Moses Mohan. “Quoting Charles Darwin, “It is compassion and care that have made us the dominant species on the planet…It hardly seems probably that the number of...
As part of designing learning that is engaging, we plan for ways to encourage networking during training. Networking is an important part of success for people at all levels of organizations. The more matrixed an organization is, the more important it is for people to have a well-developed network of stakeholders they can call upon....
In the early 90s, competencies became mainstream and were often developed by companies in order to guide training. Many times, companies built competency models for what were (then) called ‘soft skills.’ In 1993, Lyle and Signe Spencer published their book, Competence at Work: Models for Superior Performance. Their book summarized 20 years of research on using...
PPS International Limited was recognized by Wiley as being an Emerald Award level winner. This award recognizes our work with clients to administer and facilitate sessions using Wiley DiSC (Classic and Everything DiSC) in a variety of industries around the globe. We want to recognize our clients and partners who continued to develop their teams...
We all want learning success. Few times are as pressure-filled and hectic as the last few months of the calendar year. For many organizations, the last quarter of the year is the time that department managers put the final touches on internal budgets. Others sales leaders are striving to achieve their aggressive sales goals for...
PPS International Limited-SyNet Americas is pleased to share that J. David Jarvis has joined our team as VP, Strategic Consulting and Development. In this new role, David will collaborate with our clients to align talent development solutions to client business initiatives. David’s oversight will include needs assessment, solution architecture, project management of design and development...