6 Ways to Overcome Resistance to Gig Worker Training
Last year, model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen put in a grocery order with a shopping service. She ordered 5...
Managers are the key to learning and development
For as much time as we spend talking about learning management, companies do not seem to spend a lot of...
Getting Formal About Informal Learning
My Internet Time Alliance colleague, Charles Jennings, pointed me to this interesting article by Andries De Grip, titled "The importance...
Supporting Gig Worker Performance
The Gig Economy is a thing. What I mean here is that there are an increasing number of companies using...
Training in the gig economy
You’ve got a great idea for a gig economy business and you’re anxious to join Amazon, Uber, Lyft and a...
Task, Interrupted: How to Seamlessly Integrate Training into Work
You’re a sales manager, and your sales team needs training on a specific aspect of their jobs. Your organization intends...
What's the focus for learning technology in 2019?
Even with the many changes to the learning-technology space in 2018, I do believe that 2019 is the year the...
Emotion in learning (Part 2)
Before reading this post, please take a few minutes to read Part 1 for important context and info on why...
Emotion in learning (Part 1)
The secret behind learning design? Emotion. You know the old saying:"leave the emotion out of it." I'm here to advise you...
What NOT to do in L&D
As do most articles in the L&D space, I frequently talk about what we should do. And, it occurred to...
Optimizing Ideation
I’ve a personal mantra that you have to generate a lot of ideas to get a collection of good ones....
The Top 5 Totally Terrifying Training Mistakes
Happy Halloween! And Feliz Día de los Muertos to our friends in Mexico and Latin America! Before you get decked...
Subject Matter Experts: The Heroes of The Training World
Subject matter experts come in many different varieties. You will encounter many different personalities in your career as a Training...
Should We Model Corporate Training After TED-Ed?
I'm always quite curious about learning content that I find online. And every time I find something new I seem...
5 Non-eLearning Books for eLearning Professionals
I'm not sure why, but reading about eLearning has never really interested me. I enjoy having conversations about it, but...
Why Recording Instructor Led Training is Part of Your Design Process
Recording events is easier than ever. If you have a smartphone then you have a video recording device with...
7 Levels of Corporate Training and eLearning Development
This framework attempts to clarify and harness the realities of developing training solutions in today's 21st century corporation. One thing I...
How To Start a Simple Gaps Analysis Initiative
If you are anything like me, I imagine your calendar is something of a mess and finding whitespace on it...
The Most Important Secret to 21st Century Instructional Design
And I won't even make you wait until the end for the big reveal. Here it is! Digital media + quiz = course...
Tribal Knowledge & An Expanding Workforce
You are a part of a fast pace business environment. Your company is growing rapidly and you are beginning to...
How a New Training Process Scales Up Your Talent
The Importance of Loving Your Subject Matter Experts In very small orgs the experienced professionals mentor and teach the new...
Is it time you stopped using eLearning?
Not the concept, but the word. We all use it. Hell, I was recently given the responsibility of choosing my own...
Top 5 New Training Manager Situations
You've just landed a new job as a Training Manager. Where do you start? Before you start looking for advice...
How I Learned "Done is Better Than Perfect"
"A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week" - George S....
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