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Announcing: Interaction Style Self-Profile Mini-Certification Live Webinar

PPS-SyNet Americas is happy to announce additional dates for complimentary our Interaction Style Mini-Certification webinars. By enrolling and participating in the mini-certification webinar, you will receive one Interaction Style Self-Profile and Guidebook set to determine your own style, as well as access to an agenda you can use to lead an Interaction Style in Action [...]

Rewind: PPS International Limited Trainer Development Meeting

Learning and development opportunities never stop, especially for those of us in charge of learning and development! Back in February 2020, PPS International Limited held a Trainer Development meeting in Las Vegas, NV to network and learn new skills and refresh the old with our network of consultants. We appreciate and value our relationship with […]

What to Read: Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change

Those in the learning and development field are often keen readers on a variety of topics. Our facilitators and team members are as well. In our new series, “What to Read,” we will share some books and resources that we’ve found to be valuable. This issue of “What to Read” highlights Visual Consulting: Designing & […]

What to Read: Mastering the Cube: Overcoming Stumbling Blocks and Building an Organization that Works

Those in the learning and development field are often keen readers on a variety of topics. Our facilitators and team members are as well. In our new series, “What to Read,” we will share some books and resources that we’ve found to be valuable. This issue of “What to Read” highlights Mastering the Cube by […]

What to Read: Deep Work by Cal Newport

Those in the learning and development field are often keen readers on a variety of topics. Our facilitators and team members are as well. In our new series, “What to Read,” we will share some books and resources that we’ve found to be valuable. This issue of “What to Read” begins with Cal Newport’s book, […]

Video: Making Sense In A Complex World

Spend a few minutes with our Chief Learning Officer Alex Grimshaw as he gives  timely thoughts on developing resilience and agile responses to this current and globally felt complexity we are in now. In this video, Alex Grimshaw, CLO for PPS-SyNet Americas, explores approaches to dealing with complexity and how it relates to current times […]

Tips For Remote Work Success

As many of us support teams who are transitioning to working from home, we will be posting a series of tips for remote work success over the next few days. We will add to this list each day over the next two weeks. #1: Establish A ROUTINE ~ Structure your day in blocks of time and […]

17 Simple Ways to Stay Connected When You Are A Remote Team Leader

The number of leaders who manage remotely is increasing (see Gallup data), and as a result, they are faced with creating connections and engagement without having the benefit of face-to-face time. And, those who work remotely 100% of the time are the least engaged of all. Just because you manage remotely doesn’t mean you can’t […]

Tool: A Development Process to Shift Culture

It is true that training and development alone cannot change organizational culture. It takes steady focus and organizational-wide alignment to be able to make culture shifts. However, training and development does have a role to play when it comes to shaping culture. If organizations are interested in educating leaders and enabling them to be more […]

Providing Training When Time is Limited

So frequently talent development professionals determine that training is needed but providing it is difficult because participants have very limited time available. Trying to implement training when participants are stretched for time, under pressure to perform and struggling to keep up with their primary roles is a problem most of us will face—in some cases, […]