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“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I am in Toronto today to speak at the Canadian eLearning Conference with Bianca, and an amazing lineup of L&D all-stars. The people are always my favorite part of any conference. It’s wonderful to get an opportunity to connect with colleagues, catch up with old friends, and make new ones.
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🎶 What I’m Listening To
It is an 80s indie rock kind of day today, so I’m spinning the Smiths for my big drive back home this afternoon.
👆 Last Week’s Most Clicked
📰 News & Notes
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
Ethan Mollick’s midyear guide on AI highlights the significant advancements in AI capabilities, such as enhanced Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 1.5. These models now support internet access, image generation, data analysis, and video processing. Mollick emphasizes using AI playfully to understand its potential and quirks, and encourages integrating AI into daily tasks to discover its practical applications and limitations.
🎯 Take away: Use AI daily to explore its practical uses and limitations, leveraging new advancements for better productivity.
Of 2 Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice
Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” excerpt in Scientific American explores the two systems of thought: System 1 (fast, intuitive, and emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberate, and logical). Kahneman illustrates how these systems shape our judgments and decisions, often leading to cognitive biases and errors. He uses examples and experiments to show how our minds can be both highly efficient and prone to mistakes. This dual-process theory underscores the complexity of human thinking and the importance of awareness in improving decision-making.
🎯 Take away: Psychologist Daniel Kahneman reveals the dual systems of your brain, their pitfalls, and their power.
Daily L&D Job Postings at Your Fingertips
Forget scouring job boards like a digital detective with a magnifying glass. LearnOps 360™ is a free Job Board that acts like your own L&D job fairy godmother, magically scraping the web for new opportunities from a variety of sources. With daily updates, you’ll be the first to know when a dream L&D position pops up, keeping your finger on the pulse and your resume polished, ready to pounce on the perfect fit.
🎯 Take away: Bookmark this page and never miss your dream L&D job again with this site’s daily curated listings.
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🧰 Tech Tools & Tips
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🎧 Podcast
This is the conversation that caught my ear this week. Check out previous episodes in the Friday Finds podcast playlist.
Applying the COM-B model for behavior change
In L&D, we typically want people to do something that they are currently not doing or to stop doing something that they shouldn’t be. One obvious approach is training, but there are, in fact, a broad spectrum of interventions that we can deploy. This episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast looks at behavioral science, what interventions can help change people’s behavior, and how the COM-B model can help structure discovery conversations.
🧳 Where’s Mike?
- Human Risk Management Conference, Online, June 20
- SANS Security Awareness: Managing Human Risk Summit 2024, Online, August 1
- Greater Cincinnati ATD, Online, September 4
- DevLearn, Las Vegas, November 6-8
If you or your event needs a speaker or workshop that is highly interactive and super practical, we should talk.
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