Learning

Total recall: eight ways to boost your memory power at work

Nelson Dellis

Short pieces of advice, well targeted, to use your memory to the best.

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Make Sure Everyone on Your Team Sees Learning as Part of Their Job

Kristi Hedges

How to encourage your staff members to take ownership of their professional development.

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A New Way to Become More Open-Minded

Shane Snow

A self-positioning test to evaluate your degree of open-mindedness and your capacity for self-questioning, complete with recommendations to strengthen them.

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Don’t Let Your Brain’s Defense Mechanisms Thwart Effective Feedback

James R. Detert, Ethan R. Burris

How we can elude the various mental processes that may lead us to misinterpret feedback.

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To Get More Feedback, Act More Coachable

Jean-François Manzoni

What attitude should you adopt when receiving unpleasant feedback, to avoid discouraging the other person from giving you more in the future.

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The Key to Giving and Receiving Negative Feedback

Joseph Grenny

Starting from a concrete example, the author describes the techniques that make it possible to be constructive when giving—or receiving—feedback.  

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How to Get Feedback When No One Is Volunteering It

Karie Willyerd, Barbara Mistick

Advice on how to ask for feedback when you aren’t getting any—whether from superiors, peers or your team.

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We Can’t Recall Logos We See Every Day: An Interview with Alan Castel

Alison Beard

A short interview of a neuroscientist from UCLA on the noxious effects of information overload on our memory. 

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Are You Wasting Your 10,000 Hours?

David Burkus

Do we always capitalize fully on the time we devote to learning and practicing? Not necessarily!

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Train Your Brain to Focus

Paul Hammerness, Margaret Moore

Rather than try to improve efficiency and performance by multitasking, we are better off developing our ability to focus.

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