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How to build motivation to learn involves providing authonomy, mastery and purpose.

Tip #869: How to Build Motivation to Learn

This Tip discusses how to build motivation to learn by imbuing the learners with autonomy, mastery, and purpose. “Student engagement is the product of motivation

April 19, 2021

For learning to occur, participants need to be able to ask questions, which does not occur in lectures alone. The lectures need to be augmented with active learning activities.

Tip #807: Fact or Fiction? Students Learn More in Lectures

In this tip, we consider whether students learn more in lectures than they learn in active participatory learning activities. Fiction. According to a Harvard study,

January 27, 2020

Recognize when to let a good idea go when it no longer serves a purpose.

Tip #797: Learning Science Breakthroughs

This Tip describes ten learning science breakthroughs, including that more information doesn’t mean more learning. “Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.” Tony

November 4, 2019

This manager has put employees in the wrong roles, which is one of the eight common leadership mistakes.

Tip #795: Eight Common Leadership Mistakes

This Tip looks at eight common leadership mistakes, such as setting inconsistent goals, and having too many process constraints. “Mistakes are a fact of life.

October 21, 2019

The trainer is PC challenged after working with a Mac for years.

Tip #793: Barriers to Learning Potential

This Tip discusses three barriers to learning potential: processing overload, low relational trust, and inaccurate self-perception. “Where processing overload is a barrier to learning, relational

October 7, 2019

These two employees have just taken a learning styles assessment and are discussing their findings.

Tip #791: The Conscious Competence Model

This Tip discusses the Conscious Competence Model that involves awareness and competence at four different levels of learning. “You must have confidence in your competence.”

September 23, 2019

This white female trainer is conducting an evaluation with her students.

Tip #790: Make It Acceptable to Fail

This tip is about how important it is to make it acceptable to fail- and three broad categories of failure: preventable, complexity-related and intelligent. Bad

September 16, 2019

Employees need to become comfortable with trial and error as they implement changes.

Tip #769: Trial and Error

This Tip discusses the fact that we need to be supportive as employees experience trial and error when learning to change. “Anyone who has never

April 22, 2019

As a trainer this is how I learned to trust my ability to design effective training programs by facing my fears.

Tip #752: Mistakes

This Tip is about mistakes I have made, some of my own making and others out of my control and how quotes can console me.

December 17, 2018

The Tobacco Story shows the power of counterarguments.

Tip #744: The Power of Counterarguments

This Tip shows the power of counterarguments by offering a sequence for structuring a mystery story-based case. “In contests of persuasion, counterarguments are typically more

October 22, 2018

Tip #740: Why Numbers Aren’t Enough

This Tip describes a request for proposal which explains why numbers aren’t enough because there is no name attached to the numbers. “A good decision

September 24, 2018

A black male employee is seated at a table with three other employees. He looks doubtful, as if he is failing to learn how to learn.

Tip #729: Learning How to Learn in an Organization

According to Willie Pietersen in his article, Learning How to Learn, “in an increasingly turbulent world, the crucial life-sustaining competency is learning how to win

July 9, 2018

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