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In the Media: A Good Boss is Heaven Sent

Co-founder and Principal Consultant David Huffner was interviewed recently for this article on mentoring and leadership.


Accelerating Productivity

At Avid Learner, we understand knowledge workers and knowledge work. Our consultants study the high-productivity techniques used by star performers. In less than one year, hundreds of brainpowered workers doubled their rate of productivity increase by using our unique performance enhancement process. Find out how they did it.


Developing Future Leaders

Becoming a leader doesn’t just happen. Our research shows that the scientists, engineers, developers, technicians and other professionals who emerge as exceptional leaders spend years developing their expertise. Find out how to turn promising individual contributors into high-performing leaders.


Leveraging Diversity

Our unique development process helps integrate women, minorities and newer workers into your organization. It accelerates their time-to-competence by sharing the best-kept productivity secrets of star performers—expert strategies that otherwise might take years to learn. Find out how to boost the productivity of everyone on your team.


Research Shatters the Myths About What It Really Takes to Shine in the Workplace

What really separates star workers from average performers? As Dr. Robert E. Kelley explains in HOW TO BE A STAR AT WORK, being a star performer has little to do with your intelligence, creativity, sociability, or ambition. Once you exceed the minimum levels of these qualities needed for a particular job, there's no correlation between how smart or creative or social you are and how effective you are at work. Read more about the research.


Keys to Work-Life Balance: How Do the Stars Do It?

Knowing when to disconnect, shut it off, unplug, or walk away from work is one of the essential keys to work/life balance for harried and overworked people. Remember that star performers, in general, report a greater work-life balance than their average-performing counterparts. This article provides tips and ideas for achieving the work-life balance that is so critical to your success. Read the Article.

 

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