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CRZY APOCALYPSE — 4.1 WORKPLACE ELEMENTS TO HELP YOU SURVIVE.

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Ultimately, such destructive individuals are most capable of harming the most fragile commodity in any company: the creativity of a person, persons, and inflicting fatal wounds on the organization. An exodus of talented individuals who succumb and bolt for the exits may hijack a whole organization and render it toxic.

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FEAR OF BRANDING – 10.1 Reasons to Move On

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The fundamental concept is a company has a belief system and a vision as the basis from which a brand is established. We accept a brand as the vocal, linguistic, and visual embodiment of what the company claims and promises. In either case the disconnect leads to distrust of the company and its products.

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CORPORATE INSTRUCTION IS STILL DISCONNECTED FROM MILLENNIAL LEARNING STYLES – A LIST BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

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Having just spent some time at an F100 company I can affirm with great certainty, most instruction is still a series of bland courses and in some cases long and winding webinars. And of course, pushing training down to a M will just shut down their attention. For sales staff! Consider collaboration within the methodology.

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WITH REGARDS TO mLEARNING: A CASE IN POINT OR UP IN THE AIR

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A few years back as a VP for a large computer solutions company in New York, one of our account executives specializing in elearning opportunities had managed to seduce a notoriously reticent airline into considering change from their mostly instructor led training to online education. Training on the Fly. What to do?

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NOW EVERYONE WINS: OVERCOMING GENERATION DIFFERENCES WHEN BUILDING LEARNING

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During an interview about a week back I asked the project manager about the audience for which the training courseware would be designed. She added, by the way, some of them ‘don’t play well with others’ or didn’t want to take the training…and were clearly hostile. Where is Alignment in the Organization?

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WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

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Regardless, given these traits engineers (it’s no stretch to hypothesize) prefer training or education delivered in a very practical way. Concrete examples presented with no ambiguity; delete anything not directly aligned to training objectives. 2. Organize courses to take advantage of engineers drive away from ambiguity.

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The Learner, 70:20:10 and Customer Experience

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Moreover, it’s not the pacing nor structure of events nor even the implied threat the learning or training is a job requirement. What I suggest is a different way of thinking about the learner perhaps reflected in Kirkpatrick but not aligned to its grid like way of organizing learner uptake.

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