Tag Archives: training
5 Great Team Building Exercises
We all know that strong teamwork is the key to a company’s success, yet cohesive and successful teams take time to build. That’s why team building exercises can be beneficial for any business, small or large, to promote teamwork success. … Continue reading
30 Day Leadership Challenge (Free E-Book)
Our goal at IncBlot is to “flood the Earth with skills for living and leading” and part of that is providing great (we hope) content that helps you integrate leadership best practices into your everyday. Keeping this mission in mind, … Continue reading
The ROI of Training and Development: Do Soft Skills Have Hard Impact?
Organizations like ours in the training and development space are often called upon to defend the return on investment of training and coaching. This is as it should be, after all, good training is expensive and organizations need to know … Continue reading
The Cost of (Mis)Communication: An ROI Study
We often talk about the importance of communication and have an intuitive understanding that it’s a big deal. After all, each and every one of us can point to a time in our professional lives when poor communication did damage. … Continue reading
European Gamification Seminars
Gamification Seminar The link above contains information on a series of lectures on the application of game mechanics to leadership and organizational development. The seminars are slated to take place in Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Germany but we are also … Continue reading
13 Smoking Nurses and the Knowing Doing Gap
I drive past a hospital every day on my way to work. On a recent trip into the office, I went a new way, driving past the smoking court removed somewhat from the hospital itself. What I saw there shocked … Continue reading
Power Up With These Persuasion Techniques
per·suade verb \pər-ˈswād\ transitive verb 1 : to move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action 2 : to plead with : urge As you can see above, the dictionary defines persuasion in it’s … Continue reading
Influence Defined: Empowerment Without Coercion
I get asked to speak on persuasion and influence more than any other topic on which I present. However, one thing that I have noted with interest is that people are almost apologetic about asking for someone to come train … Continue reading
Leadership and Humility: How What We Aspire To Can Elude Us
In his seminal work ‘Good to Great’, Jim Collins found that two things were necessary for truly great (Level 5 in Collins’ vernacular) leaders: humility and a highly focused strength of will. Perhaps Collins’ greatest contribution to leadership literature is … Continue reading
The Alabama Tornadoes and True Leadership
I hate small talk. Probably not what you expected to hear from a psychologist, right? It turns out that an addiction to meaningful dialogue is an occupational hazard in my profession; a byproduct of being privy to the most heartfelt … Continue reading
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