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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“Hey! What are you doing?!” That was my reaction after seeing my kids and their cousins poking at a spider web. The children, all under age 8, were intrigued by a very large and fierce looking spider on a web among flower garden daisies. The gut reaction by one of the kids on this oddly
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I’m seeing L&D/T&D or rather the compartmentalization of “learning”as a lame duck practice. It’s one of those 20th century institutions that people cling to maybe for nostalgia. Like bookstores and those that still speak of their need because some just like the feel of a book. Is it time to throw this, and possibly other
The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveler coming down the road, and the Sun said: “I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveler to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin.” So the Sun
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Photo by ionushi,http://bit.ly/5tswLCCC by-sa-nc Recently I felt I needed to do a better job of practicing what I preach and narrate my work. OK, less narration than say a summation of my work. Or maybe more appropriately, formation? Regardless, when Charles Jennings reached out to me from the 70:20:10 Forum for a guest post, I figured this was
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