{"id":34,"date":"2017-01-24T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:06:59","slug":"leadership-lessons-from-walt-disney-hidden-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/leadership-lessons-from-walt-disney-hidden-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Lessons From Walt Disney: Hidden Talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_3843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_3843.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_3843.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_3843-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 85vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToo many organizations give lip service to professional development. While staff are encouraged to take classes to improve their skills, little time is actually devoted to such things. Employees find themselves in a situation much like that of Cinderella- they can pursue professional development <b>IF <\/b>they complete their regular assignments and <b>IF <\/b>they can find the time. The organization might say that it values professional development, but its actions show the opposite to be true. Even if an employee can fit such luxuries into their schedules, they are often not permitted to apply their new skills to anything practical. Management further demoralizes its staff by importing new talent from outside the organization rather than promoting from within. In more extreme environments, management demeans its existing staff by not even <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many organizations give lip service to professional development. While staff are encouraged to take classes to improve their skills, little time is actually devoted to such things. Employees find themselves in a situation much like that of Cinderella- they can pursue professional development IF they complete their regular assignments and IF they can find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/leadership-lessons-from-walt-disney-hidden-talents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leadership Lessons From Walt Disney: Hidden Talents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphcastaneda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}