Learning Rebels

MARCH 28, 2024

Performance Support: Performance tools that are readily accessible at the point of need and support the person after training is completed. Focus on Continuous Learning: Moving away from the old-school approach of standalone training sessions to a more fluid, ongoing learning journey is not the future. It’s the now.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A McKinsey Report: The Skillful Corporation states that 87% of corporations say they have a skills gap, and 53% of those companies stated they would rather reskill than hire. As did reaching across departments through creating a steering committee to sense-check training programs against workplace disruption. But there are barriers.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 14, 2021

11,703 different groups dedicated to Training and Development. For example, I found a Chicago-based “Training and Development Group” and it’s probably worth checking out. I found it hugely relevant to the work I’m doing as part of XYZ company in downtown Chicago, and I was hoping we can connect.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The result is continuous learning being part of the average everyday work life and not just relegated to the occasional training session. Use-Cases for Community-Based Learning Easing the New Employee Transition: A new employee community solves the problem of acclimating new hires to a company’s culture and workflow.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 18, 2018

There are times when we are thisclose to our training designs and ideas, and can’t see new ideas – then BAM! The talk about using video in training was hot at #ATDICE2018 this year. Exit Interviews: Interview an employee about to leave the company to capture their knowledge. ” Excitement abounds.

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Learning Rebels

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Understanding that creativity and curiosity go hand in hand, Francesca Gino, Professor at Harvard Business School, conducted a survey of 520 CLOs and found “[CLOs] discourage curiosity because the company would be harder to manage, and disagreements would arise slowing productivity and execution.”. Post originally written for Go1 ).

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Meg is a Senior Instructional Designer of Clinical and Product Education at Intuitive Surgical , a medical device company which makes the da Vinci Surgical System. I mean, my company paid a lot of money to send me to this conference, and the best part was the people? Today’s post comes to us from #chat2LRN crew member, Meg Bertapelle.

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Learning Rebels

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This may mean developing training that may not be your proudest moment. If you have worked in any training capacity within the walls of a corporation – you have created training courses on the fly. Remember the 80/20 rule – deciding what is worth your time for the best result. We have all been there.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 20, 2015

You know warnings exist because some crazy person tried it, and then tried to blame the company involved. Dress code – I worked for a company that required people attending “training” sessions to be dressed in business formal. Such is life.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Then sometimes a company will rebrand for a reason only known to the ivory tower and the result becomes this: Leaving us all scratching our heads and taking liberty with Photoshop. . There were 73 different learning/training titles. You are only as good as your last training initiative. Good grief. Of course not!

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Learning Rebels

MAY 29, 2015

Training has changed so much. It’s fun to work with a group of dedicated training professionals committed to changing the future of training. We all work very hard at helping those who want to clean up their training act. We get an opportunity to chat with the wonderful people of the training industry.

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Learning Rebels

JULY 29, 2015

Then there is the “Learning Industry” We as learning practitioners, have turned training/learning into a Rube Goldberg Machine, only without the fun. My question then becomes, if these issues are so critical, so important, and so urgent – why are we making people play the Mouse Trap Game to get to this critical training?

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 20, 2015

” Then act all shocked and surprised when leadership says training doesn’t add value. I know, the argument to this is always – organizations are quick to say “training” fails and assess blame, but are unwilling to give credit when “training” is successful. appeared first on Learning Rebels.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In the training world, it is not uncommon to hear: “Yeah, but…” and it’s time to put an end to this unhealthy relationship. We are all looking for answers to the same training problems, yet when an answer is presented, we “Yeah, but…” our way out of it. I hear the same questions.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 15, 2018

Want to create good training on the fly, THIS is your tool. I learned about a few vendors and resources to try out and see how or if I can incorporate them into my training routine. Nice to have some free resources to use for my company since it’s smaller. UMU: One stop shop for your blended designs. She was great!

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Learning Rebels

JULY 14, 2014

Did learning styles stay in her Train the Trainer class? Healthy companies encourage debate and accept differences of opinion. This doesn’t change the need to speak up. I emailed research, displayed case studies, and pointed to blogs and other reference articles to support the case. What does this mean?

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 29, 2016

I’m always asking some poor produce person, “How were you trained to know a carrot from a turnip?” Just because we need rapid development, does training need to be mind-numbing? Training wasn’t the solution. Your training analysis process may turn up an operational issue, not training.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 30, 2015

Even if it is about Ladder Safety, because even compliance training deserves some sizzle. Believe me when I say, if your compliance training is boring, you have only yourself to blame.). Unless you are discussing company policy that is not open for discussion (and I would ask you, why in the world are you hosting a class?)

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 12, 2015

However because VAK (or some adaptation of the 70+ learning styles models) is in just about every “Train the Trainer” book created, we take the collective word of authority as absolute. During the last session I facilitated, which included L&D professionals, I asked the group about understanding company financials.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 19, 2018

Then there are specific things that happen that jerk you into a reality where you KNOW that it’s time for a change: You work for a company that doesn’t appreciate you, and you find yourself in a place where your mood is becoming increasingly worse as each day passes. YES, we all have had that experience.

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Learning Rebels

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Here you are, knees-deep in designing courses, running training sessions, and trying to make a real i mpact in your organization. Curation tools help you sift through the noise to find the best bits – those pieces of content that can truly elevate training content or add quality to learning paths. The struggle is real!

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 30, 2017

Waaaaay back when I was working at a restaurant company in operations. My mantra, even back then, was – “there has to be a better way” Training was my calling , the issue was how to get educated on the fly? Would it be easier to sell a product such as cupcakes or puppy treats? Back to my roots.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 2, 2018

Even if your company does not provide you with business cards, buy some for yourself. How businesses use training is changing, and we need to be on top of what is happening. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT. Water bottle: $5 for a bottle of water? PUUUULZE use a water bottle and refill during the day. Up to date business cards.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This failure ultimately impacts employee productivity and motivation 1 creating a divide between those companies who are technology leaders and those who are falling behind. The divide between those companies who are technology risk-takers and those who are comfortable in their analog world, may not have been apparent pre-pandemic.

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Learning Rebels

JULY 25, 2017

I especially enjoy sitting in the hotel bar and overhearing people talk about training. Specifically the “training events” that an organization will fly people in from all over to experience. It’s not surprising to find that people’s perception of training varies greatly. This isn’t helping.”

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