I’ve struggled with the terms informal and formal learning for some time and frankly so has any non-learning professional I’ve spoken to. Likely you are familiar with informal learning, but if not this short video by Jay Cross is excellent and succinct. Honestly I use the terms but find they always need further discussion, clarification, […]
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After I gave a local ASTD Chapter presentation I was asked by some attendees if I knew “where’s all this going?” Where’s what going? I responded. “All this change, you know, due to all the technology and connectedness you speak of.” I expressed that traditional “systems” will continue to get disrupted. But I thought that
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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
