A couple months ago, Tom Koty and Janis Howard from Avon stopped by our office to talk about the launch of Avon University. They were excited to create a learning …
Measuring Your Training Impact of Training by Aligning and Understanding Business Objectives
Sometimes an internal sense of satisfaction is enough. When I’m on an easy, midweek jog, I leave my watch at home and am content with enjoying the run, knowing I …
Consumer Education a Rising Training Trend
Explore the New Brand Landscape with our Consumer Education Infographic
In December, Everyone’s in Sales – Tips for Selling your 2014 Learning and Development Plan
Like most kids growing up, my siblings and I kept constant score of each other’s perks, bedtimes, choirs, freedoms, and about any other aspect of childhood “fairness.” I was often …
Learning In Context – The Evolving Way We Learn
This past week, I ran into one of my friends who is a grade school teacher at a social event. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the adoption and …
Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 2
Learning Affordances When technology provides additional capabilities for employees to do their work more efficiently, it allows us to think about the emerging technologies from the affordance perspective—rather than just …
Breakthrough Ideas on Learner Motivation? Or Just Looking More Deeply at What You Already Knew?
The January/February issue of Harvard Business Review this year addressed a few “breakthrough ideas” for the year. The first one, “What Really Motivates Workers: Understanding the Power of Progress” by …
Learning 2.0 and the Convenience Factor
Okay, apologies first while we ponder this issue once again…not to slow or accelerate the inevitable penetration of social media to the training function, but more to flush out the …