Clark Quinn

Working Out Loud: Our Sponsored Mentoring Program (WIP)

We’ve been sitting on the idea of an organization-wide mentoring program for quite some time. This is mostly due to being a small team, just Nona Gormley and myself, with other short-term initiatives to address. As a key component of our overall learning vision of “A Connected and Continuously Learning” organization, mentoring is something we’d […]

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Overcoming the Learning Professional’s Lizard Brain

Executive: We need a course on blah, blah, blah. Learning Professional: …Right. OK, who is the audience? What is the objective? Really? Back up. What the heck just happened?  There’s a good chance their Lizard Brain kicked in, that’s what happened.  If you’re not familiar with the Lizard Brain, also known as Reptilian Brains, Primitive Brain, Old

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Stop Censoring and Start Managing

I recently read Clark Quinn’s post on the Social Media cigarette break and how he points out that Social Media is being used outside of an organization’s IT infrastructure because organizations are blocking their worker’s access rather than educating them and providing guidelines. He further says that employees are finding their access via mobile means

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