Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Last Week’s Most Clicked The “secret sauce” behind the world’s most popular online course News & Notes Speak to the Primal Brain This post is for Learning and Development (L&D) professionals, urging them to borrow strategies from marketing to engage the primal brain.

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Growth Engineering

MARCH 24, 2016

We often bombard you with stats proving that social learning works , but let’s delve a little deeper into the reasons why it works. A lot of very clever people have dedicated their lives to understanding the inner workings of our brains. That’s why creating social connections in learning can have such an impact. Social needs.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 20, 2016

That is not how the brain is geared to work. Action learning sets. All ideas sound like good ideas when you're talking to yourself. Training that doesn’t give people a purpose or a sense of mastery is a waste of time, money and brain space. It is time to CHANGE IT UP. Virtual or live. Micro-courses.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

formal learning elements (micro videos, webinars, workshops). work based learning mechanisms (action learning projects) and much, much more. Sounds idyllic, but even if it seems a distant dream we can begin to move in this direction with a few relatively simple steps. social networks (yammer, chatter).

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

In other words, success hardwires these habits into your brain. Innovative action: learning through experimentation. The leadership habit that balances the legacy habit of avoiding risk by delaying action is what I call “innovative action.” In a way, habits are like shortcuts. And that makes them very efficient.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2020

With the use of mentors and executive coaches, in the moment, real-time peer feedback or behavioral observations provide executives with undeniable cause-and-effect of their actions. It is hard to teach smart people something new, but when it comes to recognizing their own behavioral missteps in action, people learn.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2012

A classic conundrum asks, “If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Organizations can capture their employees’ experiences and insights through learning forums, mentoring activities and action learning assignments. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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