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Five Minute Favor with Adam Grant

Adam reveals surprising insights about what it takes to develop productive interactions, and how leaders, managers and employees can use this knowledge to build richer networks, more innovative teams and more rewarding relationships. Watch Video »

9 May 2013

Generational Givers with Adam Grant

Adam reveals surprising insights about what it takes to develop productive interactions, and how leaders, managers and employees can use this knowledge to build richer networks, more innovative teams and more rewarding relationships. Watch Video »

9 May 2013

Sincerity Screening with Adam Grant

Adam reveals surprising insights about what it takes to develop productive interactions, and how leaders, managers and employees can use this knowledge to build richer networks, more innovative teams and more rewarding relationships. Watch Video »

9 May 2013

The Happiness Advantage: Research Linking Happiness to Success

Shawn Achor says, "We have the success formula backwards. Happiness and optimism actually fuel success, not the other way around." As one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success, a sought-after author and lecturer, Shawn draws on his own research — including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard — to provide a methodology to drive higher levels of productivity, improve teamwork, enhance performance and gain a competitive advantage. The 2013 Global Ledership Congress participants had the distinct advantage to participate in a unique opportunity with an intimate setting to hear the ... Read More »

9 May 2013

Raytheon Leadership Development

Raytheon uses varied assessment tools to evaluate high potential talent pools against leadership success profiles to create highly individualized development plans. Read More »

9 May 2013

Mercer Approach to Learning

Mercer, a global human resource and related financial services consulting firm, discussed how they’re preparing leaders to navigate the growing, dynamic areas of global talent management, recognizing the need to balance strong functional knowledge with consulting and business development capabilities. Read More »

9 May 2013

Breakneck Bench Building

Mattress Firm, one of the nation’s most recognizable brands, currently operates over 1100 locations across 28 states with plans for continued growth. Learn how this successful retailer has used a transformational approach to corporate education and radically improved the capabilities of their leaders, inspiring innovation throughout their organization. Building on today’s anywhere/anytime demand for information and the collaborative power of a modern social media platform, this 21st century approach to enterprise learning has truly changed the way Mattress Firm is developing their human capital. Read More »

9 May 2013

Modernizing the Approach to Learning

MasterCard, a technology company and payments industry leader, constantly faces a world rapidly hurtling towards more and more digital money. It’s critical that MasterCard continue leading the way by continually driving new product innovations into the global marketplace, at an ever-increasing pace, while growing and adding new people all over the world. MasterCard is tackling this complex challenge by codifying their practices and approaches around the world into a single, global capability, product management excellence. The approach is informed by MasterCard best practices and integrated with cutting-edge research and concepts from the academic world, developing a global team capable ... Read More »

9 May 2013

Accelerating Leadership Development

A recent CorpU study showed that 96% of organizations said their senior executives would like to see leaders developed faster. The reasons for their urgency include maintaining pace with business growth, supporting expansion into emerging markets, building depth in their succession plan, and improving capability to drive innovation. Additional CorpU analysis assessed the leadership development innovations at more than 150 organizations. These firms shared insights on what they’re doing that’s new, experimental, tried-and-true, or recently abandoned as they update their leadership development programs and methods. This 2013 Global Leadership Congress session featured a panel discussion with talent management ... Read More »

9 May 2013

Unleash Collective Genius

Social collaborative learning is truly changing the way organizations are developing their human capital. Alan Todd shared on harnessing a new, cutting-edge approach to achieve learning excellence and drive business results. Read More »

9 May 2013

The Future of Learning: Innovating at the Pace of Change

George Siemens, often referred to as the founder of the MOOC, shared his latest thinking on how social and collaborative learning can be used to help employees in organizations easily and effectively share knowledge and improve the way business performs. During the Global Leadership Congress session, participants not only learned how to apply Dr. Siemens’ knowledge sharing and learning framework, they participated in a workshop to begin the process of developing a model for collaborative learning in their organizations. Read More »

9 May 2013

Learning Problem Solving - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

For this “EPIC Boot Camp” participants were presented with a highly challenging learning problem. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are responsible for supporting the identification, certification, management and development of a global workforce composed of 13.1 million volunteers. How can a small team of educators in Switzerland with a limited budget train millions of volunteers? Reda described the context and scope of the challenges faced by the world’s largest humanitarian network and oldest training-based organization to deliver on its mission. Participants then learned from Samantha Howland and Roch Parayre about the need ... Read More »

9 May 2013

Business Outcomes