Career Development
The 3 Writing Skills You Need to Create Effective Lessons
No course can be successful without quality content, and good course developers know that learner engagement and instructional effectiveness depend on how coherent and appealing the lessons are. This means that you need to polish off your writing skills—you want your learners to be engaged with your text, not distracted by it.
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March 9, 2016
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Instructional Design
Augmented Learning: What’s the Big Deal?
The more we understand about the process of learning, the more sophisticated our learning tools need to be. Most instructional designers will say that creating adaptive and dynamic courses, which put learners in charge of their own learning, is the ideal way to impart knowledge.
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March 2, 2016
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Career Development
3 Unusual Skills for Your Project Management Toolkit
Want to run your next project smoothly, with great teamwork and a low risk of failure? Everyone tells you to work on your leadership, organization, and communication skills to get the job done right. But there are three ingredients nobody talks about that you really need to be a successful project manager: guts, compassion, and cat wrangling (being able to focus distracted people on a single aim).
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January 28, 2016
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Learning Effectiveness
Why Corporate Training Fails (and What You Can Do About It)
We’ve got some astoundingly bad news: 90% of what employees learn in corporate training is going to vanish the second they walk out of the classroom (or log out of the LMS).
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January 25, 2016
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Workplace Issues
Conflict Management for Leaders
While we may wish for our organizations to run in perfect harmony, the truth is that a diversity of voices will inevitably give rise to conflict. And that’s not always a bad thing—in fact, conflict management isn’t simply about nipping disagreements in the bud. It’s about minimizing the negative impact of conflict (lower employee engagement and morale, decreased productivity) while drawing out the positive aspects (generating new ideas, creative problem-solving, opportunities for growth).
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January 25, 2016
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Organizational Development
4 New Year’s Resolutions that Will Make You a More Effective Leader
[feat-img-left] In 2016, resolve to be a more effective leader by trying out these four practices: Pause more often. When it feels as though demands
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January 25, 2016
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