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Ready, Set, Flow
Ready, Set, Flow
This 8 min. read saves you up to 21 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 5 getAbstract summaries (4 books with a total of 1046 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1248 minutes (about 21 hours). Learn more.
Ready, Set, Flow

How to make the hours fly by like minutes and work feel like play.

How to Reinvent Yourself
How to Reinvent Yourself
This 8 min. read saves you up to 56 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 15 getAbstract summaries (10 books with a total of 2758 pages, 3 articles and 2 videos) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 3302 minutes (about 56 hours). Learn more.
How to Reinvent Yourself

Both companies and people can have notable second acts.

How to Engage Older Employees in Learning Initiatives
How to Engage Older Employees in Learning Initiatives
This 5 min. read saves you up to 79 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 20 getAbstract summaries (15 books with a total of 3940 pages and 4 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 4723 minutes (about 79 hours). Learn more.
How to Engage Older Employees in Learning Initiatives

Learning boosts engagement – at any age.

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How To Use ChatGPT In the “Five Moments of Need”
How To Use ChatGPT In the “Five Moments of Need”
This 9 min. read saves you up to 11 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 2 getAbstract summaries (2 books with a total of 530 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 627 minutes (about 11 hours). Learn more.
How To Use ChatGPT In the “Five Moments of Need”

This framework helps learners focus on the skill they need when they need it, as it applies to their own workflow.

Become A Learning Content Curator
Become A Learning Content Curator
This 8 min. read saves you up to 37 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 8 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 1848 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2210 minutes (about 37 hours). Learn more.
Become A Learning Content Curator

Here are the top 3 rules for learning content curation in organizational learning.

How to Put Knowledge into Action
How to Put Knowledge into Action
This 7 min. read saves you up to 77 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 20 getAbstract summaries (15 books with a total of 3823 pages, 3 articles and 2 videos) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 4581 minutes (about 77 hours). Learn more.
How to Put Knowledge into Action

Close the knowledge-action gap with these best practices.

How to Manage Your Time Using the Pomodoro Technique
How to Manage Your Time Using the Pomodoro Technique
This 4 min. read saves you up to 21 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 5 getAbstract summaries (4 books with a total of 1014 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1213 minutes (about 21 hours). Learn more.
How to Manage Your Time Using the Pomodoro Technique

Tame your murderous schedule before it kills you.

Remove the Top 5 Engagement Blockers in Corporate Learning
Remove the Top 5 Engagement Blockers in Corporate Learning
This 9 min. read saves you up to 35 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 9 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 1722 pages, one article, one video and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2058 minutes (about 35 hours). Learn more.
Remove the Top 5 Engagement Blockers in Corporate Learning

In most cases, the problems are homemade.

How to Support and Train New Leaders for Success
How to Support and Train New Leaders for Success
How to Support and Train New Leaders for Success

The current talent shortage causes employees to be promoted faster and more often. But how do HR and L&D leaders get them to adapt to their new jobs quickly – and healthily?

How to Lead Others
How to Lead Others
This 7 min. read saves you up to 25 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 7 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 1249 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1492 minutes (about 25 hours). Learn more.
How to Lead Others

The demands of leading a team have changed radically in recent years. Time to relearn the basics.

How to Lead Yourself First
How to Lead Yourself First
This 5 min. read saves you up to 29 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 6 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 1417 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1696 minutes (about 29 hours). Learn more.
How to Lead Yourself First

You can learn all sorts of leadership things – but if a trained leader doesn’t know how to lead themselves, all gathered leadership insights will never be put to powerful use.

How to Reassure Your Team
How to Reassure Your Team
This 8 min. read saves you up to 204 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 50 getAbstract summaries (37 books with a total of 10159 pages, 11 articles, one video and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 12183 minutes (about 204 hours). Learn more.
How to Reassure Your Team

In the face of unsettling technological change, ease the panic and show a way forward – with these eight action steps.

How to Get Better Results from ChatGPT
How to Get Better Results from ChatGPT
This 6 min. read saves you up to 6 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 2 getAbstract summaries (one book with a total of 256 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 302 minutes (about 6 hours). Learn more.
How to Get Better Results from ChatGPT

To get the most useful answers from generative AI programs, ask more useful questions.

How to Cultivate Grit
How to Cultivate Grit
This 9 min. read saves you up to 36 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 10 getAbstract summaries (7 books with a total of 1793 pages and 2 videos) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2143 minutes (about 36 hours). Learn more.
How to Cultivate Grit

You have the talent and the skill, but do you have the drive to succeed? 

How to Meditate
How to Meditate
This 8 min. read saves you up to 100 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 17 getAbstract summaries (14 books with a total of 4957 pages and 3 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 5941 minutes (about 100 hours). Learn more.
How to Meditate

Three Ways to Begin a Meditation Practice

How To Stop Pressure From Turning Into Stress
How To Stop Pressure From Turning Into Stress
This 9 min. read saves you up to 95 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 19 getAbstract summaries (17 books with a total of 4752 pages and 2 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 5694 minutes (about 95 hours). Learn more.
How To Stop Pressure From Turning Into Stress

Strategies to turn a health enemy into a performance ally

How to Unleash the Connective Power of ERGs
How to Unleash the Connective Power of ERGs
This 7 min. read saves you up to 27 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 5 getAbstract summaries (5 books with a total of 1350 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1613 minutes (about 27 hours). Learn more.
How to Unleash the Connective Power of ERGs

Employee Resource Groups are no longer nice-to-have options.

How to Improve…Everything!
How to Improve…Everything!
This 10 min. read saves you up to 44 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 10 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 2192 pages, 2 articles, one video and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2621 minutes (about 44 hours). Learn more.
How to Improve…Everything!

getAbstract colleagues recommend work techniques, life hacks, tools and more that changed their lives within the last 12 months.

How to Set Up a Mentoring Program (and Why)
How to Set Up a Mentoring Program (and Why)

The best companies have them and the best talent expects them. Here’s a guide to get started.

How to Offer Effective Feedback
How to Offer Effective Feedback

Constructive, yet delivered with compassion, feedback is what makes learning cultures thrive.

Building Trust
Building Trust

It takes a long time to build it up, yet it can be ruined in seconds: Trust is a delicate thing.

How to Measure the Success of Training
How to Measure the Success of Training

Everyone knows that the importance of introducing employees to new knowledge and skills through training is increasing in times of a talent shortage. But far fewer know how to measure the success of these initiatives.

How to Use Questions as a Coaching Tool
How to Use Questions as a Coaching Tool

Nudge people toward finding their own answers.

How to Give Back
How to Give Back

Embrace corporate social responsibility from the inside out.

How to Sleep
How to Sleep

Those who sleep better (and often, more) are healthier, in a better mood and perform better. Time for more accurate sleep leadership in your organization!

How to Survive the Labor Shortage
How to Survive the Labor Shortage

Multigenerational teams will save your organization in the years to come – at least if you manage to get your older employees to stay with you instead of retire.

How to Write a Book
How to Write a Book

When you’re ready to tackle that dream project you’ve been putting off, start here.

Sidestep New Year’s Resolutions – and Create Lasting Change
Sidestep New Year’s Resolutions – and Create Lasting Change

How to work with goals and habits.

How to Build a Subscriber Service
How to Build a Subscriber Service

Digital technologies and advanced data gathering point the way to new revenue streams.

How to Prepare for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet
How to Prepare for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet

What sounds impossible isn’t that difficult.

Bottom Line
Bottom Line

How to recognize when it’s time to quit – and how to make your exit in style.

Negotiate Like a Pro
Negotiate Like a Pro

You don’t have to be a negotiation specialist with SWAT experience to get your demands accepted: You’re armed and ready when you follow three simple steps.

How to Get on TV
How to Get on TV

TV appearances focus attention on you, your product, service or company. Here’s how to make it happen. 

How to Brainstorm
How to Brainstorm

The great ideas are out there waiting for the patient and the bold to find them.

How to Achieve Psychological Safety
How to Achieve Psychological Safety

In four steps.

How to Reduce Complexity
How to Reduce Complexity

We often make complex things even more difficult by the way we deal with them. Here's how to change that.

How to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
How to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Convey calm amidst disruption, foster inclusiveness and bring out the best in people.

Rough Landings
Rough Landings

What a year and a half of home office has done to our physical co-working skills – and how we’re relearning them.