Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,7, Technical University of Chemnitz (Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: HRM-Research, language: English, abstract: Particularly today, company‟s environment is characterized by complexity and dynamic. There hardly are assured expectations but decisions within insecurity increase. That demands a lifelong learning from all social actors. The most popular form of formal learn...

Competence does not speak for itself! You can't simply display it; you have to draw people's attention to it. World-renowned negotiation and deception detection expert, business professor, and mentalist Jack Nasher offers effective, proven techniques to convince others that we are talented, trustworthy, and yes, even brilliant.Nasher offers the example of Joshua Bell, possibly the world's most famous violinist. In January 2007, at rush hour, he stepped int...

This book is adapted from a training course from a successful UK based training company. This short book of just over 5400 words provides you with key insights into how to design and deliver successful presentations. It will enable you to develop the following presentation skills:- How to instantly captivate your audience.- How to design content that engages your audience's interest.- How to structure your presentation.- How to create a long-lasting impression....

The Job-Communication Satisfaction Importance (JCSI) questionnaire is designed to survey large groups of nursing and other health care personnel in a hospital or similar agency. Information about perceived satisfaction and importance of selected aspects of the task and people associated with health care employees' work provides an excellent data base for administrative decisions. For example, such information may identify educational needs of personnel, areas of conflict to be resolved, an...

Many tutorials and online courses transfer knowledge on interesting and important topics. Often the creators are indeed experts in their field but have no idea of how knowledge is transferred properly, and which aspects need to be considered when creating good online media. The result is often devastating. Bounce rates of up to 90% are the norm on many courses. Actual interesting content is not perceived because the form of presentation puts prospects to flight. In this book the experience...

Data collection is often the first thing people think of in connection with research. Preparing a questionnaire, or doing some interviews, can seem straightforward – but there's much else to consider. This e-book outlines some of the key issues and offers lots of short-cuts to save you time and stress.

"Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes.Thia is very important!"—Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant"My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers and to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators incremental steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content."—Beverly ...

This book explains the importance to acquire complex problem-solving in today’s job environment. The book describes how to use five problem-centered methods to design training for real-world complex problem-solving skills. The book briefly describes the five methods in the context of the complex problem-solving skills - Problem-based learning (PBL), Project-based learning, Scenario-based learning (SBL), Case-based learning method (CBL), and Simulation-based learning. The book also spec...

How can we keep students attentive, thoughtful, and inquisitive about learning in language arts? It certainly takes more than new standards and assessments. In this book, Mary Jo Fresch shows how you can use the joyful learning framework introduced in Engaging Minds in the Classroom to better engage students in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and other elements of language arts learning. She provides innovative instructional approaches for diverse students at all grade levels, linki...

In Learning For Success, authors Peter Storm, Chantal Savelsbergh and Ben Kuipers contend that most projects have two different but complementary aims: to perform and to learn. Learning helps the performance of the current project and of future projects. It works in the reverse also: good performance stimulates the desire to become even better, which leads to discovering how to do it. In other words, good performance drives the desire to learn. How well do these principles bear out in prac...

Digital and agile transformations are learning processes for employees, teams and organisations. Many companies realise that the resulting learning needs cannot be met with standard trainings and other development methods. But how can learning, upskilling and employee development be designed in an agile way? The authors provide science-based answers and practical advice for the implementation of an agile learning approach. They show how learning coaching and agile methods can be used to ma...

Digital technology is disrupting the prerequisites for most firms in the service industry and frequently forces them to reassess the ratio of human interaction and technology use in service encounters. To retain competitiveness, it seems mandatory to increase service encounter efficiency by embedding digital technology into the existing processes. However, there is little empirical evidence on how such technological implementations affect the sentiments, attitudes, and behaviors of frontli...