December always rolls around at a dizzying speed—and for us here at Crucial Learning, this year has felt like a marathon at a sprinter’s pace! With so many changes within our certified community, it’s been a densely packed year of announcements, and I’m thrilled to carve out space to unpack and reflect on those changes with you… and to share a little of what we have to look forward to for 2025.
Making an impact is what fuels Jessica Thompson—and thanks to technology, Thompson’s reach is amplified across a seven-state healthcare system.
In a school district with 188 schools and more than 19,000 educators, how can you help teachers develop leadership skills and grow in their careers?
Melanie Collins is director of human resources, talent, and culture at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, which opened in June 2023. As a human resources department of one, Collins has been busy growing the museum staff from 20 people to about 75 people in the past two years.
Chris McGill and Cheryl Becker aren’t your typical trainers. Chris is an industrial engineer, and Cheryl was once afraid of public speaking. They’re Lean Six Sigma blackbelts who work in the process improvement space at Cintas, a global business services corporation. They do not work in human resources or learning and development, and yet this …
When R. Wade Wilshusen’s coaching budget was cut in half, he and his team had to go back to the drawing board. Wilshusen is an elementary instructional coach facilitator. Normally, coaches are paired with teachers based on expertise. For example, a coach who understands math well would work with a math teacher. But after the …
The saying “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are” strikes a chord with Aaron Tremblett, who works as a senior consultant of leadership development and coaching for the Government of Alberta, Canada. As humans, we make judgments and evaluations based on our biases and ways of doing things—but with the dynamic duo of Crucial Conversations and the SDI assessment, we’re able to check our biases, reduce conflict, and increase our understanding of others.
As Robert Ingersoll famously said, “We rise by lifting others.” That quote has become a touchstone for Karl Bradley, a leadership and team development specialist at Extension Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the 112 land-grant institutions in the Cooperative Extension system around the U.S. and its territories. “We need one another, and so we …
When it comes to holding Crucial Conversations in healthcare, all parties have a common mutual purpose possible: what’s best for the patient. And yet this doesn’t make the conversations any less crucial, according to Matt Pfleger, the manager of learning and development at UMass Memorial Health, the largest health care system in central Massachusetts.
How do you move from hosting disparate training events to creating an intentional learning journey for learners across the organization? Caitlin Murphy, an organizational development specialist at Franciscan Alliance, recently helped to launch the first tier of Franciscan Leadership University to guide learners through recommended courses.
