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 […]

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 […]

Wow, has time flown by! It seems like just yesterday we were gathered at the C3 conference, learning and experiencing new and interesting CallidusCloud developments.  While I was there, I had the pleasure to meet and speak with a variety of people from different industries, one thing was constant...how can we help the people in […]

I'm so excited to be hosting a session at the upcoming Litmos C3 conference in Las Vegas. In most cases, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...however, if you attend my session, the goal is take what happens in Vegas back to the office. (However, if you make a pit stop on the casino floor, […]

Last month began this series on Rocking Training Leadership. When organizations hire a person into a training leadership role, they are looking for that person to have a solid foundation of leadership competencies. We identified 6 core competencies last month and we are going to kick off this month with "personal skills." Now, as you […]

The business of training and development is crucial to any organization’s performance. Businesses want to gain a competitive advantage and for others the need to improve productivity or obtain better business outcomes is the pain point of the moment. Ultimately, all organizations are looking to optimize the talent of their workforce. Training is, therefore, a […]

There are many books, in many shapes and sizes that discuss training techniques for live, instructor-led training. Too often we assume those techniques cannot apply to the down and dirty of technical application training. Making technical training some of the most boring, dull and death-on-a-stick training out there. What if I told you it didn't […]

Shannon Tipton, Learning Rebels LLC Have you ever been in front of a group who are training "captives"?  Either people told to be there by the boss, or perhaps the training is part of some punitive action (You turned left instead of right...now you MUST go to training!)? If you've been in training longer than […]

Shannon Tipton, Owner, Learning Rebels LLC Welcome back! In our Part 1 of Virtual Training, we discussed techniques to gain success in your virtual session. This time around we are going to talk engagement tips. End the silence! As you might imagine, creating engagement activities for your virtual audience is a tad different than planning […]

When it comes to the "The Art of Training”, our first thought is almost always "The Art of Face-to-Face Training". In this post, let's move past face to face to virtual. Yep, those dreaded webinars. The place where PowerPoints go to die. As the move to more virtual training becomes a necessity of the workplace, […]

This post is from our newest featured blogger Shannon Tipton. She will also be presenting on this topic in an upcoming webinar.  Start with the Brain Not the PowerPoint The brain is a wildly complex organ. John Medina the author of "Brain Rules" helps us to understand we still don't understand the brain and how it works. "In […]