Leadership Development

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L&D Visibility: How Solving Business Pain Earns a Seat at the Table

A guide for business owners on transforming Learning and Development from a cost center into a strategic asset that drives revenue and speed using HeyLoopy.

7 min May 13, 2025

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The End of the Popularity Contest: Why Your 'Gut Feeling'Is a Terrible Way to Promote People

An analysis of how to use data to make promotion decisions. We explore the bias of traditional evaluations and how training data provides an objective roadmap for talent management.

Ben Schmidt 6 min May 10, 2025

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Escaping the Verb Wheel: Automating Instructional Design for Busy Managers

A guide for managers on moving from manual Bloom's Taxonomy mapping to AI-generated learning pathways to support growing teams.

8 min May 7, 2025

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What are Durable Skills?

Explore the definition of durable skills and how they differ from technical knowledge to help managers build resilient and adaptable teams.

4 min May 6, 2025

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What is Sponsorship?

A guide for business owners on the definition of sponsorship, how it differs from mentorship, and why active advocacy is vital for team development.

4 min May 5, 2025

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What is Talent Calibration

A guide for business owners on talent calibration to ensure fair performance reviews and consistent evaluation standards across teams.

5 min May 5, 2025

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The Cloning Paradox: How to Scale Your Star Players Without Burning Them Out

A strategic guide to turning high-performing employees into mentors. We explore the limitations of shadowing and offer a framework for asynchronous knowledge transfer that scales competence.

Ben Schmidt 7 min May 4, 2025

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The 4-Day Work Week Is Not a Schedule Change It Is an Efficiency Challenge

Explore how the 4-day work week relies on Learning and Development to close skill gaps and improve efficiency for business owners and managers.

6 min May 2, 2025

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What is Macro-Learning for Business Leaders

An exploration of macro-learning for managers focusing on deep skill acquisition and long-term business growth strategies.

5 min Apr 29, 2025

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What is the Alternative to Email?

Discover why traditional email often fails for critical team updates and how interactive, gamified alternatives can drive retention and alignment in growing businesses.

7 min Apr 21, 2025

The SOP they learned six months ago is already fading.

Death of the Binder