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At the ATD Conference yesterday, I attended a presentation put on by our friends at Caliper (we worked with them years back when forming the basis for our Talent Assessment tools) entitled Mental Toughness – Desire to Conquer in Sports and Sales. Caliper looked at assessments in sports for “go/no go" draft picks … Read More »

Over on the PM College blog today, Crystal Busch and I were dissecting a presentation on learning trends by Elliott Masie when one topic hit a nerve. Most learning organizations, Masie said, don't know how to use the data they collect. Okay, I agree. But I'll take it a step farther: they don'… Read More »

Going from session to session at ATD (see more conference posts on the PM College blog) I had an object lesson in the dynamic my editor, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, wrote about on this blog just a couple weeks ago in "Tra-La, It's May; Stay Positive, People!" She wrote about using the technique of Appreciative Inquiry… Read More »

We are about to unleash a week's worth of reading on our PM College blog readers, covering all the amazing sessions that Crystal Busch and I are attending here at ATD 2019 in Washington, DC. But first ... that fantastic Monday morning keynote. If ATD was trying to get our attention, it worked. Oprah Winfrey started… Read More »

This morning I saw a post on social media asking people to contribute examples of negative comments people make about project managers. I started to reply ... thought better of it ... but it has bugged me all day. This blog may have to be categorized under "Rants" but here goes. What possible value can this sort… Read More »