| By Paul Fain, www.insidehighered.com | Overall college enrollments in the U.S. have declined for a sixth straight year, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, but at the slowest pace since the slide began. The 1 percent decline this fall was due to undergraduate enrollments, which fell by nearly 224,000 students, or 1.4 percent. […]
Five Research-Backed Techniques To Develop High-Performing Leaders
| By Kavita Sahai, www.forbes.com | Leadership in the corporate world seems like something we should have figured out long ago. However, approximately 35% of companiesconsider their leadership development practices to be below-average or poor. The increase in millennials in the workforce has shone a light on this issue further. In one survey, 93% of millennials reported leaving a company to […]
What Harvard Is Doing to Help Educate NBA Players for Life After Basketball
| By Darren Heitner, www.inc.com | There are many stories that discuss the data about how professional athletes, including NBA players, quickly go broke soon after retirement. Much less talked about are efforts taken to combat the travesty of seeing those once-successful players falling into the pit of financial difficulty. As such, a recent effort promoted by […]
Want to Get Great at Something? Get a Coach.
How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon’s precision. He shares what he’s found to be the key: having a good coach to provide a more accurate picture of our reality, to instill positive habits of thinking, and to break our actions down and then […]
4 Reasons Why You Need to Be Coachable (If You Want to Advance)
| By Marissa Levin, www.inc.com | Every organization wants to maximize revenue generation and constantly develop new ways to impact their specific market. They can’t do it without employees and leaders that are coachable: open to learning, feedback, reflection, and accountability. If you’ve wondered how coaching can help you, here are 4 ways it can set you up […]
How Do We Improve Sexual Harassment Training?
| www.psychologytoday.com | Sexual harassment training has been ubiquitous for many years, in spite of being ineffective. A scientifically grounded alternative could actually help change hostile work climates and reduce the frequency of harassing behaviors. At least a quarter of all working women – and up to 60% in male-dominated fields – report having been harassed. The existing […]
Here’s How Leaders Can Stop Sexual Harassment At Work Right Now
| By Sylvia Lafair | www.inc.com | Adult relationships take work, lots of work. So,you have every right to raise an eyebrow in disbelief when I say stopping harassment is simple. Stay with me. It’s about NO MORE JUBLA. (More on JUBLA later) Let me explain. Actually, let me let JAY Z explain. In a recent New York […]
Higher Ed Differentiation and ‘The Power of Moments’
| By Joshua Kim | www.insidehighered.com | At the beginning of each academic year our president hosts a College wide community cookout. Hamburgers and hot dogs are grilled. Music is played. Students, faculty, and staff get to hang out in a relaxed atmosphere – eating and chatting with each other. There is a cost to serving everyone […]