Category Archives: Learning and Development

Weekly Challenge 10/13/14: Paul Hebert, Why do we fail?

Quote: “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.”- Alfred Pennyworth

Challenge: Everyone is going to fail sometime at something, the key is getting back into the saddle and continue to ride on! How do we we gain this resilience? First make connections, just as Bruce Wayne had Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman mythos, we need individuals and groups who can listen and give us those small words that hold us up and keep us going when the times get tough! You maybe already tough, but if you need a helping hand connect with a group or motivated individuals to help you build your dreams.

Napkin Doodle and Quote inspiration from Beer and Napkin Board of Advisor Paul Hebert

Paul is widely considered an expert on motivation and incentives and has been interviewed by the BBC, quoted in USATODAY, published in Loyalty360 magazine, published whitepapers and articles for HRM Magazine, is a contributing author on the Fistful of Talent blog, founding member of the editorial advisory team at HRExaminer.com, writes at his own company’s blog and is the Social Media Editor for the Enterprise Engagement Alliance.

Paul’s Digital Footprint:

Symbolist Blog: http://www.symbolist.com/blog/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulhebert/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/incentintel
HRExaminer: http://www.hrexaminer.com/category/editorial-advisory-board/paul-hebert
Fistful of Talent Blog: http://fistfuloftalent.com/author/paulhebert
Enterprise Engagement Alliance:http://www.enterpriseengagement.org/

Weekly Challenge: June 2, 2014: Stay Hungry and Humble

“Don’t be cocky or flashy there’s always someone better than you” -Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com

Challenge: Stay hungry and humble; disruption is always around the corner

Just because things are working for you now doesn’t mean they will in the future. Keep learning, growing, and have that ear to the ground. Mastery of a skill is extremely important in stabilizing your process for quality products and services. However, changes in the competitive landscape and how others are learning new ways to do things less expensive, better, faster, or in a more novel ways can quickly obsolete a business model, product, or service. This can be especially disheartening if caught by surprise due to not being tuned into your environment. Continue to perfect your course of action, but always be on the guard for those dynamic shifts.

Beer and Napkins Event May 22nd: Swamp Rabbit Ideas

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Weekly Challenge May 5, 2014: Mark Oehlert, Nourish Conversations

Our weekly challenge comes from Mark Oehlert, Customer Success Director at Social Text/PeopleFluent

Quote: “Imagine that the ‘grapevine’ is not a poisonous plant to be cutoff at the roots, but a natural source of vitality to be cultivated and nourished…these conversations are as much a core business process as marketing, distribution, or product development.” -Juanita Brown, MIT Organizational Learning Center and Society of Organizational Learning

Challenge: Find ways this week to nourish conversations and view them as core part of your business.

Mark is an anthropologist, historian, speaker, author, and a technologist. He has worked at the Pentagon, as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies and as a federal employee. Now he works for Socialtext (part of the Peoplefluent family), helping companies be successful using social collaboration tools. I’m fascinated with the intersection of technology and culture. I tweet incessantly and take a lot of pictures with my iPhone. Hi. You can follow him here http://about.me/markoehlert