The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) is the world’s largest professional organization for trainers and instructional developers. Shauna Rampley of SEI presented to the June 2, 2011 Chapter Monthly Meeting. The topic was: You Teach People, Not Content.
As a follow up, she is providing the transcribed content from the interactive session for all [...]
Shauna Rampley Presentation for the ASTD Chapter Monthly Meeting
Your World At Work: Struggle or Play?
By Dan Gerry, Senior Partner, Soaring Eagle InstituteI was visiting recently with a good friend who has worked in specialty nursing for many years in the health care industry. In prior conversations she’s gone on and on about the many problems in her workplace–too many patients, too few staff, high stress, fears about the next [...]
Laughter as an Organizational Development Tool by James Masica
“Top performing leaders elicited laughter from their subordinates three times as often as did mid-performing leaders.”
—Harvard Business Review,
Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,
Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, September 2008
“Purposeful laughter is a realistic, sustainable, and generalizable intervention that enhances employees’ morale, resilience, and personal efficacy beliefs…..can appeal to a diverse range of employees, can [...]
