THE WRITING AUTHORITY

Do printed books have a future in contemporary cultures? Technological advances in digital content-distribution certainly have reduced the consumption of printed books in the previous two decades or so. However, printed books are (fortunately) not gone. Their sales hav...

Companies have their onboarding processes figured out. Or at least it appears that way, not necessarily because it is true but because onboarding, as a set of events, shares space with the exciting moments of starting a new job. A lot is happening on the first few days...

No, the arrow in the FedEx logo is not accidental. Think about the visual design process. As a designer, you are responsible to find/establish/explore and expand upon visual relationships between design elements within the given space. Your job is to ideate multiple op...

Ah, typewriters! What fascinating machines! Royal typewriters! 

Sales training and sales coaching are two different approaches to increasing sales.

According to the Labor Commissioner’s Office, misclassification of workers as independent contractors results in an estimated $7 billion per year loss of payroll tax revenue in the State of California. Nor are misclassified employees protected by labor laws of minimum...

Without a robust and consistent talent development initiatives in place, creating a learning culture in any work environment is nearly impossible. When a company places critical focus on employee development, it puts into action one of the most forward-looking and smar...

The Association for Coaching® (AC) defines “coaching” as a method of unlocking people’s “potential to maximize their own performance” (Whitmore 2002). Coaching is helping people learn to manage themselves.

Traditional management style is often thought of us having short...

(See part 1 of this article.)

7. Stimulating

It depends on the context whether the content in itself is stimulating or not. The idea is to solve a problem or overcome a bump in the process. The quick and easily accessible solution is exciting to have, and it is a cause o...

Microlearning (or micro-training) at the workplace is a "needed skill" delivery model that strategically divides the learning/training content into small units. Microlearning is found to be an effective method of learning on-the-job due to its availability for instant...