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Teachers to Trainers
Teachers Make Great Trainers Schoolteachers are leaving their profession at a higher rate than ever before—and for myriad reasons. Passion for teaching is generally not one of them. If you are a schoolteacher thinking about making a career change, knowing that your passion and purpose for education will transfer with you to your new career may be the assurance you need to make the shift. Knowing that you can be effective and create a spark for learning as well as still have the flexibility, compensation, and development you crave in a career could be the motivation to step into a new role. Teachers to Trainers: Apply Your Passion and Skills to a New Career introduces you to career opportun...
Master a Career Transition
Are you considering venturing out as an independent contractor? Or maybe you are contemplating retirement. It’s important to have a plan in place to ensure your career transition is successful and leads to a fulfilling future. In this issue of TD at Work, Lisa J. Downs details how to: Determine personal readiness for transitioning out of full-time internal work. Identify key considerations prior to leaving your current talent development role. Explore career options beyond traditional talent development employment. Prepare successfully for your next move. Take action toward the future you want to create.
A Woman's Disease
Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this disease was identified with the most dreaded aspects of malignancies: prolonged invalidity and chronic pain, but also physical degradation, shame and social isolation. Cervical cancer displayed in parallel the dangers of being a woman. In the 20th century, innovations initially developed to control cervical cancer - radiotherapy and radium therapy, exfoliate cytology (Pap smear), homogenisation of the 'staging' of tumours, mass campaigns for an e...
The Ins and Outs of Subcontracting
Individuals may consider subcontracting for various reasons: to test the waters of independent consulting; to see what type of work is available and in demand and what kind of work they like; or to augment their independent consulting business. In this issue of TD at Work, Howard Prager, Joe Willmore, Rebecca Boyle, and Rick Hicks detail the ins and outs of subcontracting and why talent development professionals should consider this path. They detail: • how to get started as a subcontractor • the ways and how much subcontractors generally are paid • questions to ask when considering a subcontracting gig • land mines to avoid and tips for being successful.
Work the Problem
Cultivate the Mindset to Overcome Anything A software engineer sees her tech skills slipping even as she rises to manage her own team. A marketing director is squeezed between a demanding, artistic boss and her staff. A tech-savvy manager of operations wants to modernize his warehouse but is surprised when he is stymied. Everyone has experienced a situation at work where challenges pile so high that the only solution seems to be to cut and run. But what if we faced our problems head on instead of quitting? Each fictionalized case study in Work the Problem is coupled with in-depth analysis and commentary by two learning and development experts who offer fresh ways of looking at seemingly insu...
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The Hard and Soft Sides of Change Management
Change isn’t going anywhere. Learn how to manage it. We live in a wild world of volatility, unpredictability, chaos, and ambiguity, with change seemingly as the only constant. Change can be difficult. It often induces resistance, panic, and fatigue. And, as you may expect or have experienced first-hand, many organizations aren’t handling change all that well, with many efforts resulting in failure. What you may not realize, however, is that some workplace change initiatives are stunning successes, rolling out smoothly and more easily embraced. Why do some change initiatives fail while others succeed? How can organizations and employees handle change better? In The Hard and Soft Sides of ...
JUMPCUT ONLINE - Issue #1
Our first issue is a celebration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to mark the release of AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Also in this issue are some of our reviews from the past month you may have missed, as well as our interview with HELLBLADE's Melina Juergens. Disclaimer: All photos and images were sourced from IMDb and thought to be in public domain.
Managing Well, Both Up and Down
To effectively manage up (with your supervisor) and down (with those you lead) requires proper communication, trust, and authenticity. Broken links in any of those three areas will disrupt the effectiveness. In this issue of TD at Work, Mechelle Roberthon, CPTD, speaks to supervisors and employees as well as talent development managers, offering a tool they can use and share to improve working relations and regular check ins. She: Gives practical explanations of managing up and down Explains why trust is essential for being effective Outlines considerations for communication techniques Details falsehoods to avoid when managing up and down Provides pragmatic strategies to successfully lead your leader and direct your direct reports
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business: A Regional Education Laboratory Retrospective on School Improvement is authored by education professionals formerly employed at SERVE, one of the ten US federally funded education research and development laboratories. SERVE’S region included the following southeastern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The school improvement recollections found in this book are supported by contemporaneous data collected for research and evaluation as well as literature, interviews and evidence from former clients and collaborators. Each of the chapter authors wrote about a school improvement initiative in which they led or participated...
