All the discussion of culture and engagement has companies scrambling to find a way to make sure they have some of each. It is a legitimate area of focus, and all companies need to consider how they can curate a culture that serves as a place where people...
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Formal, classroom training is number one. According to the LinkedIn 2017 Workplace Learning Report, 78 percent of respondents said that this is the way their employees learn.
After a golf lesson, my handicap dropped from 11 to 5. One piano lesson prepared me for the recital. I participated in a sales bootcamp, and now I’m trained and ready to hit the streets.
Whenever we learn, our brain changes. One powerful way to change our brains is learning by doing, or experiential learning.
Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience. It’s been around since about 350 B.C. when Aristotle wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics, "for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
Experiential learning, or learning by doing, amplifies knowledge retention by putting the learner in the center of the action – whether in the context of the workflow, a virtual simulation or working through a game-based learning scenario.
Today, we live in a world where work and life blur together, no matter how hard you try to separate them.
Learning and development professionals are in a unique position to create organizational change to reduce burnout by both leading by example and introducing rest strategies to their teams.
If we truly want our feedback conversations to effect behavioral change, it’s important to set aside our emotions and to evaluate our goals before we open our mouths.
Reading is a source of endless creativity in my life. It exposes me to a lot of different ideas, multitudes of perspectives and great new insights that I can combine in interesting ways with whatever I’m working on.