Augmented Reality

By Angela Lane / VP, Talent and Development, AbbVie

A technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Read More

Guerrilla Marketing

By Louis Carter / CEO, BPI

Guerrilla marketing is an advertising strategy in which low-cost unconventional means (graffiti, sticker bombing, flash mobs) are utilized, often in a localized fashion or large network of individual cells, to convey or promote a product or an idea. The term guerrilla marketing is easily traced to g... Read More

Agile Management

By Louis Carter / CEO, BPI

Agile management or agile project management is an iterative and incremental method of managing the design and build activities for engineering, information technology, and new product or service development projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner, for example agile software development... Read More

Employee Motivation

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Using both tangible and non-tangible rewards to keep employees enthusiastic, loyal, and interested in continual improvement. Read More

Organization Development & Change

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Theory and practice of planned, systematic change in the attitudes, beliefs, and values of the employees through creation and reinforcement of long-term training programs. Read More

Management Development

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The structured process by which managers enhance their skills, competencies and/or knowledge, via formal or informal learning methods, to the benefit of both individual and organizational performance. Read More

Learning & Development

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Also known as Training & Development: organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in organizational settings. Read More

Information Technology

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. Read More

Executive Development

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Activities aimed at developing the skills and competencies of those that (will) have executive positions in organizations. Read More

Employee Recognition

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Communication between management and employees which rewards them for reaching specific goals or producing high quality results in the workplace. Read More

Employee Engagement

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

A measurable degree of an employee's positive or negative emotional attachment to their job, colleagues, and organization that profoundly influences their willingness to learn and perform at work. Read More

E-learning

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Use of electronic media and information and communication technologies in education or knowledge transfer. Read More

Diversity & Inclusion

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Ascertaining ways that people differ and beneficially bringing together those differences in an environment of participation, respect, and community. Read More

Career Planning & Development

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Structured exercise undertaken to identify one’s objectives, marketable skills, strengths, and weaknesses, etc., as a part of one’s career management. Read More

Marketing

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers, for the purpose of selling the product or service. Read More

Branding

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumers’ mind, mainly through advertising campaigns with a consistent theme. Read More

Assessments & Evaluations

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Systematic methods of gathering data under standardized conditions and reaching a conclusion regarding the knowledge, qualification and potential of an employee. Read More

Team Building

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Uniting around a common goal and generating greater productivity. Read More

Teamwork

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Working collaboratively in order to achieve a goal. Read More

Systems Thinking

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Understanding how things, regarded as systems, influence one another within a whole. Read More