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."
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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.
With millennials now the largest segment in the U.S. workforce, leaders need to embrace innovative strategies to engage this willful generation. This article examines fives ways that leaders can build a workplace culture that embraces millennial values...
Stressors that are best characterized as “challenges” tend to actually increase an employee’s perceived resilience. Hindrance stressors, on the other hand, tend to damage resilience over time.
Baseball’s Training Lessons for Businesses: 3 Steps to a Successful Professional Development Program
Employers would do well to take a cue from baseball and treat their training program as a competitive differentiator.