I recently stumbled upon a video of Jim Carrey giving a commencement address at the Maharishi University of Management. All students, including Carrey, at the school practice Transcendental Meditation. You can watch the B-Roll here or the full speech here.  There were many gold nuggets in his address, however for this post about self-sabotaging your learning efforts, one stood […]

Hire the heart and train the brain; this is an axiom that many of us have heard before. Hire for attitude, train skill. Yet, in today's rallying cry for more technical training, this important message gets lost in the crowd. Soft skills are pushed aside to feed the technical need obsession. There is no quarrel that the need […]

Things have changed Today's workplace has changed and there are many references to the "Modern Workplace" in a variety of publications. Yet, we as an L&D industry are still designing training from a central point - that of the "learner". This is not a bad thing; however, it is not the only view we should […]

The term “learning to learn” often causes looks of confusion. Most people will state that they “know how to learn” – obviously so, as they have managed as functioning adults up until this point in their lives. However, our lives (and careers) depend on building new skills and knowledge. One of the best things we […]

Conference season is upon us. This year is already off to quick start with an array of high-impact learning conferences, such as ATD Tech Knowledge, Brandon Hall Group's HCM Excellence, and Learning Technologies in London. There are some real biggies coming up in March, where I'll be attending, and I know you'll find the Litmos crew […]

It’s a New Year, and as humans are apt to do, we look back and take stock of the accomplishments and missed opportunities of the year past. There is one siren song that reaches out to most of us, “I wish I had taken time for myself.” This is either in the form of personal […]

You made it to the end of 2017. Go you! How do you feel? Joyous, celebratory, reinvigorated? How about tired, frustrated, exasperated? If you're like most people, it's a bit "all of the above." For most people, 2017 concludes a year of successes and failures. That's normal. The bigger question is, "Now, what?" How do […]

2017 has flown by, many a training program has been created and many people have been needlessly participating in said training programs. The question at hand is, "How can we make a better impact in 2018"?   In most cases, it boils down to better questioning. Do we understand what problem training is trying to […]

People in the workplace today need help. They need help doing their jobs to the best of their abilities, and they need help finding the tools to make that happen. According to research conducted by Charles Jennings, Only 10% of what we learn is covered through formal learning. The rest comes through people finding relevant content […]

Finding information on the internet is not a problem. In fact, Domo has just released their fifth annual infographic looking into the world’s data generation and online behavior, called “Data Never Sleeps 5.0.” You can check out their infographic from 2016 here to compare. In general, the Internet population has grown by 7.5 percent since 2016 and now includes […]