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Global Learning Resources helps organizations create leading edge recruiting, development, and retention strategies and implement cost-effective processes to win the competition for top talent.

GLR Blog

  • Lessons in Change
    Change is a necessary and inevitable part of living. Knowing what to keep and what to let go of is difficult, but can be learned by visiting places like Woodstock or Rome or any other place where the past is incorporated into the present and will make up part of the future.
  • 7 Reasons to Be a Contract Recruiter
    There is no job security working as an employee. I think anyone in a job that does not generate revenue, invent new products or services, or interact with customers in a strategic way is in jeopardy of being laid off in the next year or so.
  • Messiness, Creativity and Education
    The idea of "school" may be obsolete.
  • Unemployment, Job Creation and Education
    As a nation we face several conundrums: As Richard Florida points out in an article in The Atlantic, unemployment is highest where there are the least educated and skilled people and where the likelihood of new companies investing is low. Fewer private companies are going public, venture capitalists are investing less money, and education of technical and scientific talent is at a low.
  • Australasian Talent Conference 2009 (ATC)
    Australasian Talent Conference ended yesterday in Sydney, Australia. The conference hosted close to 200 delegates and a global slate of speakers. A sampling of these included Dr. John Sullivan and Master Burnett from Dr. John Sullivan and Associates, Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads, Christine Deputy of Starbucks, Dr. Charles Handler of RocketHire, Sue Polo of Google, [...]
  • Hungarian Food In Sydney
    After the ATC conference, we headed out to find a nice place for a quiet dinner with John and Addie Sullivan, Master Burnett, and a few of the folks that make the ATC happen.  Trevor Vas, a co-director of the conference has a Hungarian background and knew of a small restaurant in a suburb of [...]
  • What Can’t You Blog?
       As my taxi pulled into the Sydney airport, this sign really got me thinking.  Just what can and should be shared in blogs or tweets and what can’t be or shouldn’t be?  In other words, what do we gain and lose as we put more and more of ourselves into the virtual world? We can share [...]
  • iPhone or Blackberry Bold?
    I think the Bold is without any doubt the best phone for road warriors.
  • A Wrap-Up of Our Latest Future of Talent Institute Event
    Last Friday we held a Future of Talent Institute learning event at Cisco Systems headquarters in Silicon Valley.  It was an half-day of deep conversation and engagement among a group of 35+ talent leaders from organizations like NetApp, Agilent, Mozilla, Yahoo, Google, Seagate and Frog Design. We focused on emerging trends and what the talent environment [...]
  • Emerging Careers and New Jobs
    Emerging careers and new jos explored.

In the Spotlight

April 2009

New "downloadable"PowerPoint presentations by Kevin.

Kevin is available for keynotes, briefings, or special meetings with your staff or leadership team. He talks about trends, talent issues, leadership evolution, corporate learning, talent acquisition strategies, the Generations, and much more.

Scores of organizations bring Kevin in each year to introduce new ideas, update the management team on emerging issues, challenge a work group with different ideas, or bring a global perspective to your thinking.

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Email or call for additional information: +1-510-659-0179 or kwheeler@glresources.com.

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