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Tip #883: Cashapona, The Walking Tree

This tip looks at the cashapona, a walking tree, that serves as an excellent metaphor for learning and development. We typically think of trees as

July 26, 2021

Two women and three men in a business meeting lack conversational capacity to handle a difficult conversation.

Tip #881: Developing Conversational Capacity

This Tip is about how managers can develop conversational capacity to handle difficult and challenging conversations. I recently attended an excellent webinar with Craig Weber

July 12, 2021

Adult students are bored by a lecturer who doesn't know how to bring a boring topic to life.

Tip #880: A Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

This Tip focuses on the revised Bloom’s taxonomy and my epiphany about the level when lecture is appropriate. Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge was originally the first

July 6, 2021

A black gentleman in shirt sleeves is smiling as he reads the new words that describe the new normal on his computer.

Tip #878: How to Describe Our New Normal

weOur new normal is very complex. I thought I would try to describe it using some of the new words that I’ve learned (Remember how

June 21, 2021

Tip #877: Five Steps to Make Learning Stick

“Knowledge, skills, and experiences that are vivid and hold significance, and those that are periodically practiced, stay with us.” Peter C. Brown Is it enough

June 14, 2021

Tip #876: Four Steps to Learning Maturity

“To be successful in a knowledge economy, firms need to create learning organizations.” Don Tapscott There is a lot of discussion about the need for

June 7, 2021

Tip #875: There is a New Gogy in Town

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” John Holt Pedagogy focuses on how children learn best.

June 1, 2021

Tip #873: Soft Skills are Hard!

“Let’s call them real skills, not soft.” Seth Godin I’m tired of the false distinctions that are often made between soft skills and hard skills.

May 17, 2021

Seven different participant are smiling as they respond to a learning response system.

Tip #870: Gesturing Increases Learning

“Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?” Jonathan Carroll We’ve discovered that movement contributes to greater learning and

April 26, 2021

Tip #869: How to Build Motivation to Learn

“Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning.” Elizabeth F. Barkley In his book Drive, Daniel Pink identifies three key components necessary for

April 19, 2021

Participants in a training room with pipe cleaners at their table to play with.

Tip #865: The Magic Key to Learning Transfer

“You, your leaders, and your investors are interested in learning only insofar as it improves performance and gets business results.” Michael Dulworth and Frank Bordonaro

March 22, 2021

Tip #862: Another Instructional Design Model

“Think about what your learners need to do with that information after the course is finished and design around that.” Matthew Guyan I just became

March 1, 2021

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