Today's Learning Workplace

          Topic: How can trainers influence behavior change? Why Trainers Lack Influence – and How They Can Get It   Articles for this Week: Top 10 Leadership Soft Skills (Chief learning Officer) 9 Lies Unproductive people Love to Tell (Marc and Angel Hack Life) Reasons for Not Evaluating (and what to […]

  Topic: Is how we’re teaching getting us where we need to be? The Future or Learning, Networked Society (video, 21 m) from a blog post on the Upside Learning website.   Articles for this Week: The Future of Higher Education, infographic (Committed Sardine) NMC Horizon Report 2012: Higher Ed Edition (New Media Consortium) What’s Your […]

            Topic: Resolutions…What’s Your Plan? The Do Plan, or Why We Know But Don’t Do 5 Reasons Your New Year’s Resolution is Made to Fail Articles for this Week: Four Infographics About 2012′s Top Trending Education Technology Topics (EmergingEdTech) What’s the Difference Between Return on Expectations and Return on Investment? […]

            Topic: Metaphors for Learning and Development (you know, metaphors are like binoculars…) Metaphors (Learning Solutions Magazine, Nuts and Bolts column by Jane Bozarth) Articles for this Week: Insights: Improving performance still matters the most (Clive on Learning) Residue Not Retention as a Strategy (Learning Zealot) Top 25 Twitter Tips […]

  Topic: How to get more done in a day What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day (Fast Company) How to Accomplish More by Doing Less (HBR blog) 10 Steps to Getting More Done in Your Day (American Express OPEN) How to Be Productive in the Age of Distraction and […]

        Topic: Failure…It’s a Good Thing? How Failure Can Help You Succeed (Work Awesome blog) Articles for this Week: The Biggest Barrier to Leadership (Chief Learning Officer blog) Principles of Networked Unmanagement (Life in perpetual Beta) 15 Awesome Quotes on Collaboration (21st Century Fluency Project) Looking for a job using Facebook’s new […]

    Topic: ISD or IS-SME? Do Instructional Designers Need to Know About What they Are Designing? (Clive Shepard’s Clive on Learning blog)     Articles for this Week: Create High Impact Learning (Chief Learning Officer blog) 11 Simple Ways to Create Genuine Connections With the People Who Make Failure Impossible (Zen Habits) Why Employees […]

100th Show! Tip-a-paloosa!  It’s the all tip episode with tips contributed by some of the guest hosts that made the first 100 shows so great! Thanks to everyone who has listened to our podcast for 1 episode or 100 episodes!  We appreciate your support!     We love to hear your feedback–leave a comment on […]

  Topic: Congratulations–you’re a manager! 25 Tips for Managing Your First Direct Reports (Smartblog on Leadership)   Articles for this Week: Five Tips for New Teachers to Become Connected Educators (21st Century Fluency Project) Our Favorite Project Based Learning Resources (Powerful Learning Practices blog) eLearning Guild Research: What are the Benefits of Social Learning? (Learning Solutions […]

          Topic: Speak up…Speak Fast…the Elevator Speech 3 Essential Ingredients in a Convincing Elevator Pitch (American Express OPEN) 7-Question Mini-Course: Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch (veri.com) Articles for this Week: The True Value of Conferences and How to Get More Value Out of Conferences (Christopher Penn’s Awaken Your Superhero blog) The Impact […]

      Topic: Who should (and shouldn’t) be in class together? Articles for this Week: Presenting for Twitter at Conferences (ProfHacker) Using pre-mortems for proactive performance analysis (Instructional Design Fusions) Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 (Center for Learning & Performance Technologies) Tip of the Week: Remember to use open-ended questions to open up […]

            whoops…we said this was show #97. We were ahead of ourselves; it’s show #96! Topic: Prepping for Presenting at Conferences Prezi webpage, demo, tutorials Sliderocket webpage, tutorials   Articles for this Week: Pause your email to get some real work done (Business Hacks) How (and Why) to Participate in […]

            Topic: Level 1 evaluation: Keep it, pitch it, repurpose it Level 1 — Keep It or Ditch It? (Chief Learning Officer blog) Kirkpatrick 4-Level Model (Kirkpatrick Partners) Kirkpatrick’s Four Level Evaluation Model (Don Clark’s Big Dog & Little Dog’s Performance Juxtaposition) Articles for this Week: Learning in a Social […]

        Topic: Beginnings The Right Way to Start a New Job – and Leave Your Old One (HBR) The Best Beginning: 7 Tips for Starting Out Strong Starting Out on the Right Foot Articles for this Week: How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom (Mashable’s Tech blog) Three Ways to Speed Up […]

            Topic: Employee Recognition Why the Buzz Around Employee Recognition (Bersin & Associates)   Articles for this Week: What Can Angry Birds Teach us About Universal Design for Instruction? (Prof Hacker) The Secret to Delivering a Timed Presentation (Business Hacks) and 6 Tips for Outstanding Presentation Design (American Express OPEN) […]

      Apologies in advance…we had a little trouble with the audio quality this week.   Topic: Storytelling as a Tool for Learning & Development Business Story-Telling: Using Stories to Inspire Tell Me a Story: Why Stories are Essential to Effective Safety Training Tips & Techniques for Using Storytelling in Technical Training Story-making and […]

  Topic: Change is (still) coming How To Avoid Becoming Irrelevant – Change is a’Come’n (Kevin Jones blog) Articles for this Week: Five Must-Have Skills for Learning Professionals: An Update (Mindflash) Games, Gamification, and the Quest for Learner Engagement (ASTD Learning Circuits) How to Deal with Difficult People at Work? (Work Awesome) Business Trips: 5 […]

          Topic: Working with SMEs What Everyone Should Know About Working with Subject Matter Experts (Rapid eLearning blog) Working with Subject Matter Experts (Learning Solutions) 20+ Helpful Tips for Working with SMEs (Flirting with eLearning)   Articles for this Week: 5 Ways Process is Killing Your Productivity (Fast Company) How to […]

  Topic: SORRY!  It’s been a while since we’ve shared an episode of TLW.  Sorry about that!  No excuse, just a crazy summer of work, business travel and moving.  But we’ll be back on track with weekly episodes from now on.  Thanks for your patience…and you’re emails!       We love to hear your […]

      Topic: Pre-work: Setting it up and getting it done The problem with pre-work (Clive on Learning)   Articles for this Week: Career Wisdom in Just Six Words (CNN Money) Tough Questions for Your Professional Development (Bamboo Project) How to Get Your Boss to Say Yes (HBR blog) 5 Social Media Activities for […]