Reposted from my November newsletter Redux (adjective): Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.* Adam Grant has given us all the reasons why we should Think Again – to update our theories-in-practice, take our thinking to the next level, and revisit assumptions we had thought settled in our minds. I’ve noticed some shifts in my own [...]
Many of us hope to be the kind of people that can find and free hidden potential – that we’ll be the one to discover a talent that makes great impact, that we’ll be able to play a role in enabling another’s success story. We often want that for loved-ones in our lives – our [...]
It isn’t hard to recall just how vulnerable we feel when we are in a learning mode in the workplace. We worry about making a mistake that costs our organization money or good will. We are concerned that we may look incompetent in front of our boss or our peers. We feel the pressure of [...]
In a world of changing employee expectations, hybrid work, intense change, and deep uncertainty, managing people is a daunting task. And yet, those of us who lead L&D initiatives in organizations may be counting on managers to take a role in developing their people, adding another concern to their growing responsibilities. At the same time, [...]
In a remarkable testament to what can happen when preparation meets opportunity, I find myself in the midst of a major change in my life. I have long hoped to trade in my suburban house for a condo closer to the beach when I retire, and – to my surprise – the stars have aligned [...]
The demise of Twitter has unleashed a confusing and confounding exodus. Like being let out of a huge concert or sporting event, we’ve had this terrific experience and now we’re scattering to the winds, likely to never come together in the same way again. Twitter has its problems, to be sure, but I’m feeling the [...]
“But,” they say, “what if my employees just aren’t motivated?” I hear that quite a lot when I talk with leaders at all levels about cultivating learning culture or supporting self-directed learning. They think employees don’t want to learn. Their evidence is that despite offering accessible resources, employees seem to take the easiest route to [...]
Have you ever seen the wonder of a murmuration? It’s the phenomenon where great flocks of birds (often starlings) fly and swoop at great speeds, changing direction, moving in formation, performing a beautiful dance in the sky. In the 1930s, ornithologist Edmund Selous speculated that the birds had some kind of ESP that guided their [...]
Did you ever have one of those days when you really wanted to hide away? I hit my limit one day last week. Technology is changing too fast to keep up, and the innovations are equally awe-inspiring and worrying. And social media is becoming more agitating than enlightening. And the news is disheartening, all the [...]
Wanna see something interesting? I’m currently teaching a graduate course in instructional design, and this week’s learning community discussion asks the students to try their hand at writing objectives for one of several practice cases. (They’ll be writing objectives for their projects in the coming weeks, after the results of their needs analyses are in, [...]