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Part of Leadership is to Create a Crisis

Destination Innovation

Under his leadership, Alcoa streamlined and improved operations. Invested in Training and Education : O’Neill allocated resources to provide comprehensive safety training and education programs for Alcoa employees. He died in 2020 aged 84. He once said, “Part of leadership is to create a crisis.”

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How To Make Work Work for Women in Tech and Leadership

Business and Tech

Lack of representation in leadership Women in the IT industry are confronted with an imbalance that can be incredibly discouraging — they make up only 26% of the entire workforce. Female representation in the tech leadership space is still alarmingly low, often ranging between 15-25% (depending on the data set).

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Connection over content: A new era for education technology

Christensen Institute

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. Although by no means perfect, before the pandemic, technologies in education had been steadily improving for decades. Learning skills and acquiring knowledge are cornerstones of education.

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BCG 2020 Report: Three Steps to Organizational Learning

InnovationTraining.org

We’ve discussed how important employee training and educational development is for an organization’s success. In BCG’s recent report , they outlined three critical steps for leadership to take to improve organizational learning. A mature learning organization – a learning culture with leadership support.

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Learning in Organizations: Takeaways from McKinsey’s 2020 “Rethink Capabilities” Report

InnovationTraining.org

While remote working, leadership wants to ensure employees have the skills and resources needed to effectively manage their time and workload in this new environment. Respondents of the survey report spending more time on learning during the pandemic – with 54% of leadership engaged in self-paced learning.

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2021 Crowdsourced Innovation Report

IdeaScale

Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential. 2020 Was The Year of Necessity. We’ve all heard that necessity is the mother of invention, and the past year was an abrupt education in the truth of that statement. What We’re Seeing In 2021.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Julie Hodges, Professor of Organisational Change, Consulting Advisor, and Author, Durham University Business School

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

She is the author of several books including Consultancy, Organizational Development and Change (2017), Managing and Leading People through Change (2nd edition) , Sustaining Change in Organizations (2015) , Employee Engagement for Organizational Change (2018), and Organization Development: how organizations change and develop effectively (2020).

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