Nick Leffler

AUGUST 25, 2015

My favorite story is that of the relationship between Learning & Development and the legal department. If an organization must secure themselves by putting up barriers, before erecting those barriers, other equally effective ways for employees to get their work done should be in place. Working Around Legal.

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Nick Leffler

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Another great example is Atlassian who collects data and talks directly from customers while giving them a view of the products and modifications they’re developing. You might also enjoy: What’s My Development Process? They even go as far as hosting a weekly Twitter chat to get a better look into their clients minds.

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Atlassian Social Networks Authoring Tools Enterprise 100

Nick Leffler

DECEMBER 8, 2015

There are some common terminology issues in training and staff development departments in many organizations. I’m always thinking about the difference between training and learning and the importance it has to how we do our work in Training & Development. Training vs. Learning. I’d say so.

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Nick Leffler

AUGUST 11, 2015

Developing the social awareness of the program has gone well, although nothing like I had planned. Luckily I was developing this awareness program for an Instructional Design program that has a lot of people involved. All content that’s been developed has been original, and more importantly helpful to the community.

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Social Education Write Blog Social Media 100

Nick Leffler

JANUARY 27, 2015

One of the biggest challenges of Learning & Development is to motivate people to want to spend their time with us and not something they’d rather be doing. It could be as soon as yesterday, it could be last year. Ask yourself again. What do you do when you’re not motivated to do something? Means of Motivation.

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Nick Leffler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

If we listen, we’re better equipped for the discussion with others to develop better ideas together. As we read others ideas and what they’re working on, we have our own thoughts that we also share. When we listen, we’re forced to think about our own ideas and fine tune those. Diversity Innovates.

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Ideas Diversity Training Innovation Portfolio 100

Nick Leffler

JUNE 10, 2015

Now with the expansion of the program and more students being brought in, it’s important to also expand the social presence of the program to help the Learning & Development (L&D) community outside of the program.

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Nick Leffler

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Learning & Development would be the most logical place to go for those instructors that will guide people in their discussions in a CoI. I’ve parted ways with higher education and will never return, I’ve even written a bit about how it might do some more harm than good (notice I said some).

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Nick Leffler

DECEMBER 30, 2014

We all have our story of how we got to be an Instructional Designer, eLearning developer, etc. It’s too easy to skate through them without ever coming into contact with anybody which also makes it easy to skate right out of it and drop the course. How I Got Here – June 30. I’ll keep pushing forward and innovating in any way I can.

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Compliance Training Write Blog Social Networks Learning 140

Nick Leffler

JANUARY 20, 2015

My first thought is the fad several years ago where rapid development tools were shoving in ways to Tweet from within a course and calling it social learning. People have used it to: Develop their professional knowledge. Be it a LMS, rapid development tools, or whatever. What are Social Media-styled eLearning Tools?

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Social Learning Social Tools Social Media 100