We are all aware that the Covid-19 pandemic has altered the working world in a dramatic and life-changing way. In a time when there are so many questions and so few answers, all we want to know is if the changes we see now will endure for years to come.
Reimaging Workforce Development Post Covid Read More »
Even before these unprecedented, stressful times, talent development has not been easy. In the professional space, it can be hard to let our true identities inspire how we interact with clients and employees. To truly create a good talent development team, however, one must not be afraid to show their human side and take pride in being different.
Embrace The Weird In Your Workforce Development Team Read More »
In a previous blog entitled, The View from the Top Can Be Lonely. It Does Not Have to Be, we talked about the importance of trust across colleagues and especially important – trust within the colleague/leader relationship. Today, I want to discuss another topic, transparency.
The Importance of Transparency Read More »
Back in March I attended the Training Industry Inc, Future of the Workforce Conference, and had the pleasure of attending the session led by Sonia Malik @ IBM. Sonia presented on automation, the future of work, and building a skills revolution inside of IBM – her presentation was informative and very relevant for learning organizations today. If you are interested, you should check out the recording here. But I digress.
Humans are a Venn Diagram. Why Isn’t Your Organizational Learning Strategy? Read More »
Everyone has heard the old saying “practice makes perfect,” but what is perfect? The textbook answers for perfect is ‘having all the required or desirable elements. Qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.” Perfect is relative; one person’s perfect won’t necessarily be the same as someone else’s. It is nearly impossible always to be accurate, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be an expert. So the question is, what is mastery?
When It Comes to Learning We Do Not Horse Around Read More »
“Let them eat cake. It did not work for Marie Antoinette and it does not work today. The recent pandemic has opened our eyes to how images of people are projected and especially how leaders show up. We are so used to highly produced videos or commercials of CEOs or other leaders all prim and proper and think – that’s how a leader is supposed to look and act.
Let Them Eat Cake: Authenticity, Leadership, and the Post COVID-19 World Read More »
One of our favorite questions around here is “What was your first job?”. It is a great ice breaker and reminds us that no matter where we are today – or where we are going in our careers – we all started somewhere – and it was likely very different than our current profession.
We All Started Somewhere: The First Jobs of WeLearn Read More »
It used to be when one thought of the ‘future’ they may imagine The Jetsons; flying cars and teleportation machines. It sounds ridiculous, but at one time so was the idea of electricity or even the Internet seventy years ago. Now look at us, technology has evolved into being an important part of our everyday lives. We use our devices to communicate, order food (imagine explaining Grubhub to the average citizen in the 1950’s), meet people, read the news, and most importantly to learn.
Remote Learning: It’s The Thing! Read More »
You have searched high and low in the organization – and you think you have found the perfect SME to be part of your project – how do you ensure that they have all the skills that you need – that they can storyboard the learning experiences, that they can spin a good tale as a storyteller, that they can create assessments to truly see if your have learned something, and that they will be able to take the stage (in person or virtually) and facilitate a truly effective learning experience. You know what we mean right? How do you know if you have captured a unicorn?
So You Think You Have Found The Perfect SME? Read More »
We love us some Megan Trainor around here – and so we are all about the SMEs today – and that is no trouble.
As we have talked about before, SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) are an essential part of the work we do as learning professionals – without them, we would have no domain knowledge, no real-world examples, and let’s face it – very little content.
It’s All About the SMEs, The SMEs, No Troubles…. Read More »
