Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 23, 2020

A day wasted at the lake is time well spent. Welcome to the vacation edition of this weekly newsletter. We’ve been enjoying the beautiful Wisconsin weather out on the boat and just generally lazing around this. Slowing down for some good meals off the grill and game nights with the family have been just whatContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 23, 2020"

Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 17, 2020

"Training gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration solves new problems none have solved before." —Marcia Conner I am super excited to be heading off for some much-needed vacation time. Soon after I hit the publish button on this, we’ll be loading up and heading out for some time at the lake. I’m lookingContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 17, 2020"

Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 10, 2020

“You have: Training, Schooling, Benchmarks, Industry peers, Entrenched experience, Data, data, dataThey have: great ideas, not-so-great ideas. You’re the expert...not the order taker. Listen, consult & lead.” —Jen Hartman Our family is super excited to have officially started the count down until we head off to Lake Kegonsa for some much-needed downtime next week. AnotherContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 10, 2020"

The Show: Learning Design Competition

If you work in Learning & Development, you owe it to yourself to check out “The Show”. Cath Ellis and Kim Tuohy have created a totally brilliant learning design competition that is currently running as part of the lead up to The Learning Conference 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bRkCXORU1E&feature=youtu.be It is like “March Madness” but for learning pros.Continue reading "The Show: Learning Design Competition"

Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 3, 2020

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin We’re coming up on a holiday weekend here in the US. Our family is looking forward to enjoying the long weekend with an extra day off and streaming Hamilton with the original cast later this evening. I’m looking forwardContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 3, 2020"

Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 26, 2020

‘All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.’ –Martin Fisher It looks like we've made it to another Friday and I hope you're having a great week. I am grateful to have had my first visit with my parents since the pandemic began. It looks like our numbers here are going back upContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 26, 2020"

Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 19, 2020

"There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose."  — Garth Stein Do you know someone who is just getting started in the L&D field? Maybe a student or someone making a career change? Nominate them for a free pass to the onlineContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 19, 2020"

Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 12, 2020

‘“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do notContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 12, 2020"

Book Review: Design Thinking for Training and Development

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past several years, you’ve probably heard a buzz about design thinking. If you’re only vaguely familiar, or you’ve been wanting to dive in and learn more about how it can benefit the work that you do, “Design Thinking for Training & Development” by Sharon Boller andContinue reading "Book Review: Design Thinking for Training and Development"

Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 5, 2020

“If you want peace, work for justice.” Recent events have left me speechless. Global pandemic, local curfews and utter chaos. Nothing I can think to say that will be sufficient. As Euan Semple said "There is no them. There’s just us, all of us. Don’t let your tribe convince you otherwise." Happy Friday! Thanks forContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 5, 2020"