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Friday Finds — Persuasive Storytelling, Power of Words, Objectives

Mike Taylor

The ultimate goal is to motivate the audience to take action – be it adopting new methods or embracing new ideas. The key takeaways from his Learning 2023 session are aimed at presentations but are equally applicable to learning materials. By the way, if you ever get a chance to watch Richard speak take it.

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Brain rule #12

Clive on Learning

That's why one of our best attributes is the ability to learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas." " "It is a scientific learning style we have explored literally for millions of years. " "The greatest brain rule of all is the importance of curiousity."

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Old habits die hard, but good leaders can change

CLO Magazine

Your habits determine who you rely on for ideas and advice. In other words, success hardwires these habits into your brain. To engage fresh thinking, we need to slow down and be open to new ideas and to seeing patterns that are not immediately visible. In other words, innovative ideas will take a quick “flight to safety.”

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Why Training has a Bad Name (and how we can change it)

Learning Rebels

That is not how the brain is geared to work. Action learning sets. Join Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, build your twitter list with L&D people whose thoughts and ideas you admire. Secondarily, create learning steering committees with involvement from leadership. It is time to CHANGE IT UP. Virtual or live.

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Insights: Experiential learning is an important part of the architecture

Clive on Learning

We are hard-wired for experiential learning, as John Medina explains in Brain Rules : “When we came down from the trees to the savannah, we did not say to ourselves, 'Good lord, give me a book and a lecture so I can spend ten years learning how to survive in this place.' Because, if something goes well, we want to repeat it.

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Have you heard about cafeteria learning?

Matrix

Corporate learning often resembles this sort of artificial design meant to incorporate a little of everything and leave little or no room for personalization. That’s why Jillian Douglas of Idea Learning came up with a solution that would give employees more choice when it comes to learning. What is Cafeteria Learning?

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Creating learning experiences that don’t suck

CLO Magazine

Use ‘Next Practice’ Learning Methods. So, you have narrowed the objectives, you have excellent speakers who have created space for the audience to think and share ideas, and you have a highly skilled orchestrator who can seamlessly connect the brilliant insights from the speakers to key learning objectives, but something is still missing.