A wise friend one told me that when bad stuff happens, the least we can do is learn from it. Now that our economy is beginning to recover, it is a good time to reflect on what happened, why, and what we, as individuals, could have done better. I wrote this [...]
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You can’t just provide someone the ingredients and hope that they will bake a good cake.
No one wakes up in the middle of the night with a burning desire to use a decision support system, but they sure as heck would like to make better business decisions.
We use computers to get things [...]
Experiential learning is “nature’s way of learning”. It is instruction that occurs when you directly participate in the events of life. Experiential learning is often contrasted with didactic learning, in which the instructor’s role is strictly to shovel information at the learner.
Think back on how you learned how to walk [...]
You have arrived! You are in the C-Suite, a Chief Learning Officer, Vice President, or Director. Finally, you are seated at the big table. Here you will be taken seriously. You are now part of the heart and soul of your corporation. Not so fast. Here are a few things [...]
Training assets are a resource. Environmentalism aside, when times are flush; it is simpler to replace them instead of refashioning them for usage in new and different situations.
Those days are gone. Just as our natural resources have diminished faster than we expected, so has our cash. We need [...]
Recently, training management of a Fortune 100 company dictated that 50% of their company’s instruction would be delivered through electronic meetings. Our client was concerned that the limitations of the medium would severely diminish the effectiveness of their training. They wanted us to prepare their instructional designers and [...]
School will be out soon and many of us we be seeing a lot more of our children. Hopefully, we will take this opportunity to notice how they have grown in magical ways.
I wrote this article many years ago. My son Laurence, was a year old at the time.
About a year ago [...]
Now that the stock market has turned around and the economy is on the mend, it is a good time to reflect upon some of the bad habits that we developed during previous recoveries.
Imagine that you will be first in line. Think for a moment, if you had a small business and [...]