A leader in instructional coaching and the man waving the flag for “radical learning,” Jim Knight shares what he and others have learned about successful coaches, coaching and coaching programs. In this engaging conversation, Jim describes a “this is broken” moment that completely changed his approach to teaching. You’ll learn the key principles of partnership, and the difference between “dialogical coaching” and “facilitative coaching.”

Our Take: Can Your Organizational Culture Keep Up?

In a digital world, corporate culture is the make it or break it for any organization. Large multinational companies are emulating the lean, agile models of start-ups to achieve the speed they need to grow and remain competitive. But to be successful, as this McKinsey article points out, these companies need to build organizational cultures that perform well across functions and business units, embrace risk and focus obsessively on customers. (Here at Box of Crayons we’ve just completed extensive research that points to a culture of ongoing feedback as a means of supporting a different, more iterative way of working.)

Exclusive: Finding the WIIFM in Coaching

Calling All HR Influencers

In a few short weeks, Box of Crayons will be releasing a new report, The Truth & Lies of Performance Management, for which we surveyed senior executives in more than 120 organizations, asking them to share what they’re doing (and not doing) in their organizations. In the report, we tackle some of the big questions that are keeping those of us responsible for our organization’s performance-management process up at night.

We are offering an advance sneak peek to editors, writers, bloggers and senior leaders of HR, OD or L&D.

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