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Workforce Learning, LLC is a leadership development and management training company that provides managers and C-level executives with the skills and knowledge they need to build a more productive work environment. Since founding the firm in 1997, Alice Waagen, PhD, has developed highly effective leadership programs and coaching workshops that teach the people in charge how to motivate and inspire employees. For more information, and to book a workshop or training session, contact Alice.

In The News

Alice Waagen is featured in Management Today Magazine article, "Cutting Ties"

Winter 2012, Management Today magazine — “Executives have the power to make layoffs sting less,” explains reporter Chris Petersen in the Winter 2012 issue of Management Today magazine, who turns to Workforce Learning president Alice Waagen for advice.

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Alice Waagen is featured on Monster

“When leaders are looking to fill a staff vacancy, I suggest they start by creating an organizational staffing or resource plan,” Alice Waagen told Philly.com. “Think of it as a shopping list based on an actual inventory, not an ideal. Do an inventory of the work that needs to be accomplished.”

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Tip of the Month

May 2012: The Secret to Motivating Your Staff

Question: Tell me how to motivate my staff. Isn’t that something a good manager is supposed to do?

Alice Waagen says: No. No. No. You cannot motivate another person. Motivation is an internal state that each and every individual has or lacks based on numerous, personal conditions. What you can and must do as a leader in your organization is to create and foster those conditions that will positively support a person’s work.

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