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How to Get and Be a Great Peer Coach

Next Level Blog

That resource is called peer coaching and it’s one that I’ve been sharing with the leaders in my development programs for over 15 years. After that much experience, I’m convinced that peer coaching is at least two things – a game changer and the most underutilized resource in most organizations. It’s that fundamental.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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Women IT leaders take center stage

CIO

Cultivating visibility matters for a few reasons,” says Kathryn Guarini, a former IBM CIO and now a board member at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Kathryn Guarini, board member, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and former IBM CIO Guarini “You want to be the one considered for opportunities to have an impact,” she says.

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Startups at CES showed how tech can help elderly people and their caregivers

TechCrunch

Mighty Health is an app that pairs users with health coaches, certified trainers and personalized nutrition plans, while Zibrio , a scale that assesses users’ balance to predict if they are at risk for a fall, can also be incorporated into at-home routines. Nobi’s smart lamp alerts caregivers when a fall is detected.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight.

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

TechCrunch

It connects users with a health coach and features nutrition and workout plans created for older adults. Embleema was created to make pharmaceutical studies easier by making the evidence generation and regulatory review processes faster. Mighty Health created a wellness app with older adults top of mind.

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Three Practical Tips to Supercharge Your Next Online Innovation Event

Planbox

Take Novartis for example, a multinational pharmaceutical company that embarked on an ambitious culture transformation in recent years. Recruit Innovation Coaches To Fine-Tune Ideas. Before advancing to the next stage, ideas can be pitched to and vetted by coaches before being brought forward to the executive team.