Marie-Hélène Budworth

Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, specializing in learning, development & motivation.

Marie-Hélène Budworth

Entries from April 27th, 2012

Leadership development

April 27th, 2012 · Comments Off on Leadership development · Uncategorized

Thursday was a cold, rainy day in San Diego.  Luckily that kept me going to session after session instead escaping for a walk along the pier.  And I am glad that I did.  The fourth session I attended was a panel with I/O psychologists who are working within large organizations or consulting firms. The topic […]

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SIOP conference

April 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on SIOP conference · Uncategorized

I am on a plane en route to the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.  A large contingent from Southern Ontario’s Org Psyc/Management scholarship community is on the same plane including Gary Latham, Julian Barling, David Zweig, Sunjeev Patel, and a wack of graduate students.  As always, it promised to be an interesting conference.  First […]

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Exercise and Learning

April 11th, 2012 · Comments Off on Exercise and Learning · Uncategorized

There was a really interesting piece in the New York Times today about the relationship between exercise and addictions.  Neuroscientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that mice who regularly ran on a treadmill and were given liquid cocaine were more likely to become behaviourally addicted to the substance than mice who were […]

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Storytelling & Case Studies

April 5th, 2012 · Comments Off on Storytelling & Case Studies · Uncategorized

I am still thinking a lot about storytelling as a way to present material.  Thanks to those of you who read my earlier piece on reporting research through creative non-fiction writing.  I appreciated the comments I received on the site and by email.  More recently, I have considering the use of storytelling as a tool […]

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