As I launched my campaign to yet again run a 1/2 marathon and begin a training regiment that will involve early morning runs in the heart of winter, my wife encouraged me to join Method 360, an exercise class she’s been attending several times a week to strengthen her core and improve he overall fitness. She […]
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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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Businesses seek markets. Without these opportunities no service or product matters no matter how effective or unique. I feel that today employees ultimately control access to these markets and this is no more true than in working in government contracts. In my space a major barrier to opportunity can be Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) and in
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I’ve written before that in this new era of learning that believing is seeing. The more we connect, read, reflect and engage in practices that challenge our paradigms how, where and when learning takes place the more we see things from a different perspective… even everyday things.Take for example my attendance at a recent running
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I was asked recently to help build the case for Social Media use in our organization (social business). Of course I have been making the case by living it personally and for some time with the use of collaborative tools for new hires and various projects. But alas this has been quite a skunks-works effort, so rather
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