Today I tried a forcefield exercise in the retrospective. Sometimes retrospectives could lose their effectiveness when they become too repetitive. generally like to mix things up and enjoy keeping distinct themes around the retro; such as gauging mood, generating insights, setting goals and closures. like the metaphor of a speedboat/ hot air balloon and I used that instead of a plain jane force field. Ask participants to think of the anchors that hold them back from achieving that goal and the fuel thats driving them. Timebox the activity. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. MORE >>

Interested in the new product from Articulate? Attend this free webinar! Speaker: Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Chief Learning Architect of Vignettes for Training, Inc. Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011. Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern (60 Minute Session). REGISTER: [link MORE >>

My thinking, learning, and writing tends to fall into the theoretical camps that propose how technology, leadership and learning can (or should) converge to improve the health, productivity and culture of an organization. Isolating any of them does none of us any good. Recently, however, I’ve been spending more time thinking about the traits of an individual leader – specifically in the context of technology, leadership and learning. Last year I wrote about “ The Anatomical Dissection of a Healthy Organization ”. and not for vanity sake). Perhaps it was overly complex. probably this one). MORE >>

Scientists may have found how exercise induces calm--and how it may help people in stressful situations perform better. enabling people to exercise might give them a competitive advantage. Check out this article from the NY Times. Given that lots of us are stressed these days--and even the relaxed folks have to occasionally make a big stressful presentation, etc.--enabling MORE >>

While we spoke about putting the board games created during Upside’s board game creation exercise up for download, it’s taken us a couple of weeks to get here. There were a few realizations during this exercise that challenged my notions. Designing, prototyping, developing and play-testing a board game is one thing, packaging it for everyone to play is another. The individual who was lucky enough to convert it from physical prototype to a printable version learned much about game design while creating the PDF. We wanted to keep the packaging simple and easy to use. MORE >>