by Patty Wellinger | Jun 23, 2017 | Productivity, Training, Workforce
Continuing professional development helps you maintain knowledge and skills in a rapidly changing environment. Whether it is learning new technical skills or keeping in touch with trends that will affect your clients, professional development is a life-long process....
by Patty Wellinger | Jul 13, 2018 | Continuous Business Improvement, Leadership, Training, Workforce
In a rapidly changing business environment, your current knowledge is less important than the ability to adapt your skills to new challenges and demands. We have previously discussed the importance of employee engagement and lifelong learning promote employee...
by Patty Wellinger | Aug 24, 2018 | Strategic Thinking, Workforce
Individuals have various learning styles which affect how they take in and process information. Some people show a strong preference for one type of learning style over another. There are visual learners, auditory learners, tactile learners and kinesthetic learners....
by Jessica Flores | Nov 4, 2016 | Benchmarking, Business Research, Economic Gardening, Innovation, Leadership
This week I had the opportunity to spend three days in beautiful Cassopolis, Michigan at the Economic Gardening® National Strategic Research Team’s (NSRT) annual retreat hosted at the Edward Lowe Foundation. Members of the NSRT meet once a year in person to...
by Jessica Flores | Sep 16, 2016 | Business Research, Leadership, Training, Workforce
Only 32.9% of US employees are actively engaged in their jobs. This is according to Gallup’s monthly employee engagement study. That means the vast majority are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged.” While employee engagement has risen about a percentage point...
