Leading Edge in Leadership

How AI is Transforming Talent Development

In this blog, we’ll explore the profound ways AI is reshaping talent development, share best practices for integrating AI into your strategy, and discuss challenges and opportunities that leaders must navigate. Whether you’re just beginning your journey with AI or looking to refine your approach, this guide is your roadmap to the future of talent development. And at Powers Resource Center (PRC), we understand how important it is to be intentional and mindful about utilizing tech tools like AI for human environments. Read on for more of our insights…

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Closing the Hybrid Team Gap

PRC’s team training programs provide managers with the skills, strategies, and support they need to succeed in both back-in-office and hybrid environments. Through targeted training, PRC helps bridge the gap for managers, addressing the unique challenges of hybrid leadership—from strengthening communication and trust to cultivating an inclusive, resilient team culture to facilitating conditions that provide for effective meetings. Let’s delve into the reasons why managers are seeking a return to the office, and explore practical, research-backed team-building strategies that managers can use to boost productivity and cohesion across both in-office and hybrid teams, particularly where meetings are concerned.

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Bringing Company Values to Life: Why It Matters More Than You Think

We’ve all seen it—the bold declarations of company values hanging on office walls, sitting in onboarding manuals, or floating around the website: Integrity, Teamwork, Innovation, Customer Focus. But, let’s be honest—how often do these values actually shape the day-to-day interactions within a company? It’s one thing to have a set of values; it’s an entirely different thing to see them lived out by every team, every day.

In the corporate landscape, the divide between stated values and real-world practices can sometimes feel stark. At PRC, we're diving deeper. We believe in more than just words on a page; we're committed to embodying our values in every decision, every interaction, and every innovation. Join us as we explore how genuine commitment to integrity, teamwork, innovation, and customer focus can truly transform the workplace experience.

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How to Control Your Emotions

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of leadership, one quality has emerged as a vital differentiator: emotional intelligence (EQ). As organizations continue to face increasing complexity, constant pressure, and rapid changes, the leaders who can effectively recognize, manage, and influence their emotions—and those of others—stand a far better chance of leading successful teams, making good decisions, and fostering positive, productive work environments.

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The Foundation of Strong Leadership

In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving work environment, the ability to lead effectively has never been more critical. However, truly impactful leadership begins with leading oneself. When leaders prioritize their own growth and self-awareness, they lay the groundwork for building connected teams and fostering healthy organizational cultures.

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7 Hot Leadership Training Topics for Executives, CEOs & Directors (Pt.1)

Take your leadership to the next level with 7 more hot training topics. Explore strategies to enhance flexibility, adaptability, and openness, while learning how to build on your strengths, tackle weaknesses, and integrate new skills for lasting success.

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7 MORE Hot Leadership Training Topics for Executives, CEOs & Directors (Pt.2)

Discover 7 hot leadership training topics to enhance your skills and effectiveness. Learn how to assess your strengths, focus on one topic at a time, and practice new strategies to become a well-rounded, adaptable leader your team and executives will admire!

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Most Popular Leadership Training Topics

Leaders are defined by actions, not titles. Now more than ever, we need strong leaders. During this time of chaos in the workplace, we’re seeing an even greater interest in our most popular leadership training topics at PRC (in addition to our top team-building programs), since organizations realize this is a critical time to invest in leadership development.

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Mastering Leadership: A Roadmap to Achieving Your Leadership Development Goals

Leadership development is really about the deliberate and structured process of enhancing your abilities, skills, and qualities to become an effective leader. It’s a continuous journey of lifelong learning aimed at improving leadership traits, behaviors, and competencies to lead oneself, teams, or entire organizations more effectively.

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An Intro to DiSC Assessments

The diverse personalities in a workplace might seem puzzling at first. Enter the DiSC profile, the key that deciphers this puzzle, one letter at a time. Together, these letters of the DiSC profile weave a tapestry of diverse strengths and capabilities. We should recognize and honor these differences. With it, teams can truly harness their combined potential, creating a symphony of productivity and harmony. Each one is unique. Yet when played together, they create a masterpiece.

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14 Hot Leadership Training Topics for Executives, CEOs & Directors

Being a leader is not a one-dimensional, one-size fits all role. It’s a position that requires complexity, flexibility, adaptability and openness. And whatever training topics you choose, we recommend evaluating your strengths and weaknesses first, then focus on learning one topic at a time, practicing and integrating new skills as you move forward. Your team will notice. Your executives will be thrilled. And you will be a more well-rounded, accomplished leader as a result!

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12 Five-Minute Team Building Activities

When it comes to building team culture, strong connections and dodging team dysfunction, we believe that effective team building is at the heart of healthy workplaces. Taking the time to focus on the interpersonal aspects of your team and investing in team-building activities creates trust, bolsters camaraderie, and yes…positively impacts the bottom line. That’s because cohesive, connected teams function better and have more fun!

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How to Elevate Leadership with EQ

Exceptional leaders are distinguished not only by their technical skills but also by their ability to navigate the complex world of emotions. Emotional intelligence (EQ) plays a pivotal role in fostering effective leadership and driving success in both professional and personal realms. Unlock Success With Our Done-for-You Employee Training Content…

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Supporting Diversity Through Hybrid Work Culture

Remote work became the job benefit many employees didn’t know they wanted until it was thrust upon them during quarantine. And now as the pandemic has officially been declared over, many of the world’s top CEOs have demanded a full return to the office, declaring that in-office policies yield higher productivity, team trust, and creativity. Employees, as well as multiple survey results, disagree with them. The convenience and alleviation of stress that remote work offers are now a priority to most employees.

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How to Set Boundaries

How can we make the in-person or hybrid format for workers more appealing, more productive, and engaging? It all starts with setting healthy boundaries so we can avoid having to build walls around us for emotional safety and protection. How? Ready on…

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Most Popular Team-Building Training Topics

Teams have been put to the test these last few years. In addition to our top leadership programs, we’ve seen an increased interest in our most popular team-building training topics, and we wanted to share our list of the most requested topics that businesses have requested, year after year.

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Save Time & Money with Our Done-for-You Employee Training Materials

Our “Build Up” Done-for-You Workshops offer a turn-key solution that can meet all your training needs without losing that valuable time. As the demand for leadership development grows, and the year-end training budgets need to be used or lost, this is the best value for time and money you can get to train your teams and leaders.

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Top Five Ways Companies Can Build Cohesiveness on Teams

When leadership and team members are not on the same page, this leads to team dysfunction. Leadership that operates from a place of fear instead of cohesion, can foster an environment of team members becoming disengaged, burnt out, and lacking trust in their leaders. Patrick Lencioni has identified the principal dysfunctions of a team in his New York Times bestselling book Five Dysfunctions of a Team Training Workshop.

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