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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 Retain Older Employees
How to Retain Older Employees
This 12 min. read saves you up to 70 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 18 getAbstract summaries (14 books with a total of 3501 pages, one article and one video) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 4190 minutes (about 70 hours). Learn more.
How to Retain Older Employees

The labor markets are empty, and many companies are losing highly qualified aging staff who find retiring more attractive than the ideas of the new Group CEO. However, HR can retain them if they know…

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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.

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.

Hybrid Teams: How to Avoid Two-Class Systems
Hybrid Teams: How to Avoid Two-Class Systems
This 17 min. read saves you up to 26 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 11 getAbstract summaries (5 books with a total of 1286 pages and 6 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1527 minutes (about 26 hours). Learn more.
Hybrid Teams: How to Avoid Two-Class Systems

Create a fair, connected and motivating working environment.

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 Analyze and Address Skills Gaps
How to Analyze and Address Skills Gaps
This 12 min. read saves you up to 40 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 12 getAbstract summaries (8 books with a total of 1970 pages, 2 articles, one video and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2352 minutes (about 40 hours). Learn more.
How to Analyze and Address Skills Gaps

Organizations aware of their employees’ capabilities lay the foundation for targeted development and a robust in-house talent marketplace.

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

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

Making the Most of In-Person Team Gatherings
Making the Most of In-Person Team Gatherings

You’ve been looking forward to this for a long time: Having your entire team in person (!) gathered in one place. How do you make the most of people’s time together?

How to Improve…Everything!
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 Coach Your Employees
How to Coach Your Employees

Through coaching, you help people realize their potential by increasing their self-knowledge, perception and understanding. Leaders at all levels may start with the following six best practices.

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 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 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 Avoid Bias in Performance Reviews
How to Avoid Bias in Performance Reviews

To leverage the potential, avoid these flaws in thinking and judging.

How to Brainstorm
How to Brainstorm

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

The Built-In Superpower
The Built-In Superpower

How healthy optimism makes you more resilient.

How to Transform (Chaotic) Hiring into a Strategic System
How to Transform (Chaotic) Hiring into a Strategic System

Because better recruitment practices yield a solid return on investment.

How to Achieve Psychological Safety
How to Achieve Psychological Safety

In four steps.

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.

How to Get Along with Your Hippo
How to Get Along with Your Hippo

Bosses. You watched their goings-on from a safe distance for a while, but now that you’re returning to the office you’ll need a real-life-encounter survival guide.

Why Invest in Ongoing Employee Development?
Why Invest in Ongoing Employee Development?

You are setting up an L&D department? Or are you looking for a new LXP? This is what you have to consider.

Make Virtual Training Effective
Make Virtual Training Effective

Moving learning online can be a win-win – when done correctly. 

Curb Your Biases
Curb Your Biases

How to avoid errors in judgment and thinking.