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Is culture your friend or foe?

“You don’t get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.” Mike Hawkins. So, work backwards from the results you want (probably behaviour change), to the actions that people need to do ...
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The brighter choice of happiness

Sometimes life sucks. It’s just not fair. We know that. So, we have a choice to make. From the moment we awake in the morning, we can think that something wonderful is about to happen that day, or drag ourselves ...
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I believe, therefore I see

It’s long been known that when presented with a smorgasbord of evidence, we select only the dishes that we like. In the words of Warren Buffett: “What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so ...
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When is your wiser self?

They say that youth is wasted on the young (often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950) because they don’t appreciate the vitality of youth. I guess this is from the perspective of an older person where that vitality is waning. ...
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3 Analyses for Designing Impactful Learning Workflows podcast

It was great to be on the L&D Podcast! And to spend time talking with someone like David James who is so knowledgeable about L&D.  Here’s the full podcast (posted 31 May 2022): listen here And David’s blog post if ...
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Three things needed for change

First Monday of the month = L&D Monday David McClelland’s team at Harvard summarised the requirements for any significant change to be lasting and effective as follows: People must… …be willing to change (if they’re not it’s a motivation issue) ...
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Learning Hack report from Learning Technologies 2022

If you missed Learning Technologies conference & exhibition beginning of May (or even if you haven’t) here’s a great special edition of the Learning Hack podcast with John Helmer and Caroline Ford reporting from the event. I highly recommend you ...
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The power you have

As a human, you have great power. By that I mean, the quality of the lives of the people you interact with directly or indirectly will be affected by your words and deeds. “Life I touch for good or ill ...
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