Before reading this post, please take a few minutes to read Part 1 for important context and info on why emotion is so important to learning and why Emotional Intelligence needs to be considered in learning design. Enjoy, and then meet me back here! ~~~ Emotion in Learning (Part 2) Lead a horse to water.  Here's […]

The secret behind learning design? Emotion. You know the old saying:"leave the emotion out of it." I'm here to advise you to leave the emotion in, at least in regard to creating your training programs. Training at its core, is a change management effort, with any training program something needs to change. A skill needs to […]

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 […]