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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Aegis Learning
May the spirit of this holiday season stay with you throughout the coming new year.
iCoach App Features Learning and Convenience
Extended and Convenient Access
Aegis iCoach was built with you in mind.
The iCoach app provides you with instant and updated access to all of Aegis Learning’s award winning content and follow-up tools including:
- Video Library (Over 100 Learning Titles)
- Leading Edge Newsletter Archives
- Aegis Inspirations
- My Everything DiSC (Portal to Learn More About Your DiSC Assessment)
- Article Library
- Aegis Cares Updates
And best of all, no ads or promotional material.
Go Green with iCoach
Training and learning from Aegis Learning can now be more eco-friendly.
The Aegis iCoach app allows customers and program participants to access all learning materials from their own device. Some training companies may “loan” you a device for the day but Aegis Learning provides the materials to you through the iCoach application for you to keep and review at your convenience. Program guides, participant forms and follow-up tools are all delivered from the iCoach application and no paper is wasted.
Go green with your next training session and the iCoach application.
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Polly Walker, Chief Innovation Officer at Aegis Learning was the architect of this innovative and leading approach to continued learning and eco-friendly delivery.
Aegis Learning Team Retreat 2017
The Mount Charleston Lodge was the site of the 2017 Aegis Learning team retreat.
To the casual observer, the amount of laughter may indicate that it was nothing but fun and spirited interaction among team members who are also friends. But the roaring of laughter was just a sign that real work was happening with a team that enjoys each others company immensely.
Using information we gathered from our external customer survey and our internal GAP/SWOT analysis, we have crafted a course for 2018 that will continue to add value and impact to our customers. Look for 2018 to bring a set of beautifully designed online learning programs, regular webinars, podcasts and great diversity in our newsletter articles.
Much more than just the technical planning, you will also benefit from many voices, diverse perspectives and incredible and different talents all focused in one direction and with singular, passionate purpose. We are devoted to your success, to make better people and workplaces and to make a positive impact on the world in which we live.
Did we mention we laughed a lot too.
Happy Thanksgiving from Aegis Learning
We are so incredibly thankful for all of you. We appreciate greatly our customers, friends, vendors and program participants and on behalf of the entire team at Aegis Learning, Happy Thanksgiving!
Owning Our Decisions
At the end of the day, the decision was yours. Even with collaboration and using systems thinking, you made the call. The decision is part of your leadership record and legacy.
Effective leaders cannot run from their decisions. They cannot blame others. They cannot blame the economy. They cannot hedge or try to escape accountability. It was your decision.
When right on target a decision is a glorious thing. Your hard work paid off and you chose the correct course of action. Everything fell into place nicely and the return was better than anticipated. It is pretty easy to own that type of decision.
The harder decisions to own are the clunkers. The ones that don’t work out so well or the choice that just did not pan out. Those are hard to swallow and to have your name attached.
Effective leaders own decisions that are both good and bad. With good decisions, the leader will share credit with the team, those that provided valuable input and any stakeholder that gave clues about outcomes or consequences.
When the decision is a poor choice you are on your own buddy. Can’t blame the data or any person. It is all you.
With bad decisions, there are a couple of additional decision points that come into play. The poorest choice is to defend and continue to cheerlead for a bad decision. This is simply digging a bigger hole and drawing more attention and potentially, criticism to a bad decision.
The effective leader must admit the mistake and work diligently to fix it. Simply say that you made a mistake, you are sorry and you will get it fixed. Use plenty of personal pronouns to make sure the ownership of the decision is clear. You may not get beaten up for a bad decision but you will certainly loose credibility if you try to run from it.
When looking at a poor decision, first check and see if you gave yourself enough time to analyze and diagnose the situation and all of the potential impacts. This is the most common reason for poor decisions. Then, retrace the system thinking and seek a different and wider scope of input that focuses on why the first decision failed and that the issue still exists. Never compound a poor decision with a rash or arbitrary fix that is simply designed to save face.
Tim Schneider is the founder of Aegis Learning and has been working with teams and leaders for 25 years. He generates results, impact and his sole focus is your success.
He is the author of The Ten Competencies of Outstanding Leadership and Beyond Engagement and a widely sought speaker, training facilitator and individual development coach.