Would Your Employees Train on Their Own Time?
“The company has to look forward and transform. If it doesn’t, mark my words, in 3 years we’ll be managing decline.” [2016] Randall Stevenson, CEO of AT+T AT+T has been swimming upstream for 20+ years...
View ArticleSmart Pills – Is it Possible to Enhance Your Thinking?
Thinking – like any skill – requires practice to improve… right? What if there were a way to make yourself smarter with no effort? What if you could just pop a pill to increase cognition? The smart...
View ArticleInvest in Critical Thinking = HUGE ROI
Some organizations still believe training is a cost-center rather than a money maker. But the right training, applied at the right time, can have exponential returns! According to this short report on...
View ArticleTeaching Thinking through Adapted Appreciative Inquiry
If you’ve been a reader of this blog for any period of time, you know that using questions is something we regularly advocate for, in order to change people’s thinking and thereby change their...
View ArticleWhy do so Many Companies Get Training Wrong?
Earlier in 2017 I was interviewed by the BBC for an article on workplace training and specifically, why companies get it wrong so often. As one of a few expert sources for the article, my entire...
View ArticleBetter Learning Through Interleaving
Interleaving is a largely unheard of technique – outside of neuroscience – which will catapult your learning and training outcomes. The technique has been studied since the late 1990’s but not outside...
View ArticleSilo’d Learning is Limiting Workplace Learning Potential
For years, possibly decades, we have helped people develop expertise around specific jobs, or how to do their current job better. We’ve kept them learning “up” a topical trajectory, much like a silo....
View ArticleAre You A Slow Thinker? Good for you!
First, a quick tutorial on Fast and Slow thinking – or System 1 and System 2 Thinking as popularized by Nobel Prize winner Danny Kahneman – in case you are not familiar. Fast / System 1 Thinking System...
View ArticleDeveloping the Solid 70
When your organization decides who gets training – who gets chosen? In terms of performance, employees can be classified as A players, B players and C players. A players are your superstars – and make...
View ArticleGot 5 minutes for professional development? Here are 3 resources.
Would you like to be in charge of your own professional development rather than waiting for a formal training process to be offered (and without even having to sign up for one!). Here are 3 easy,...
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