Learning Rebels

AUGUST 17, 2023

Does your sales team really need to sit through another training program on how to “upsell” or do they need help or guidance? It requires a different mindset that values creativity, flexibility, and a deep understanding of both the learners and the business context. Resource: Better Brainstorming by HBR 2.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Let’s shift the mindset away from the “more tools, more productivity” myth and help you identify the specific areas slowing you down in your unique workflow. So, put down those flaming chainsaws and discover real, sustainable productivity tools to help you achieve what matters most. Let’s focus on what works for you.

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Learning Rebels

AUGUST 20, 2014

When did shaming the learner become okay? Lately, in this writer’s humble opinion, L&D (Learning and Development) professionals have been taking a ride on the Bully Bus looking to create havoc for both their learners and professionals within their own industry. We have a customer, and the customer is the Learner.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

To helpthe organization improve, you need to get to the deeper need of the business,to understand the learners and the work environment, and understand what iscausing the problem. As a training professional who asks questions that lead to the answers that help them do that, you will be even more valuable.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Learning scaffolds help lift people in their knowledge, and supporting them throughout the learning process. The end game, being able to help move a person through the stages of learning. Reciprocal scaffolding helps the rubber meet the road when connecting learning to the brain. Allow for rebuttal. General Direction: .

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 29, 2016

People appreciate learning when it becomes a valued resource, when it’s helpful to their day-to-day lives. There are sooooo many different and engaging ways to bring knowledge to learners, and this is your opportunity as designers to bring those elements come to life. 5) You are helping people! Click To Tweet. Dig deeper!

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Learning Rebels

JUNE 2, 2016

So share – what handout/take-away/resource did you uncover that was truly helpful? Calibration: In the very last session I was at, Michelle Ockers and Emma Weber shared a simple, yet powerful tool that you can use with learners to do a quick self-assessment and reflection. Remember, we are all in this together!

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Learning Rebels

MAY 26, 2015

One cannot help but be drawn to her laughter and questioning personality. Knowing how people learn, and finding better ways to use design to get to the root of the problem and consider diverse options for solving helps us be better at what we do. Jean is a delight and hugely curious about the world and people around her.

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Learning Rebels

JUNE 3, 2016

I had opted this year to get a badge ribbon printed up with D.F.T.B.A – Don’t forget to be awesome, for me a personal challenge to each of us to remember that our audience expects awesome from us – whether that is as the audience attending your speaker session, or the learner audience attending your workshop – they expect and deserve awesome.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 12, 2015

That’s okay, that’s what curiosity is for, it means seeking out a person in the organization to mentor you, and help you to improve and learn. Where is the curious learner in you? My #PLN contribution to you, the curious learner, is this: Google Doc that has recorded reading suggestions by a number of great people.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 25, 2015

Because I trusted them to help me manage my conference experience as a business owner, this freed me up to meet some wonderful people and not in a “used cars salesman, here’s what I can do for you”, kind of way – but to connect genuinely. Don’t you love it when a plan comes together? Michele Lawson and Kelly Phillips.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 30, 2015

Providing people with reasons to absorb content helps them to connect the dots. Help your class be able to retrieve information when they NEED to have it. Play your own “Devil’s Advocate”, you’ll be amazed at the discussion that is forthcoming and the learning that comes from it. Assess Yourself.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 29, 2015

We all work very hard at helping those who want to clean up their training act. But because we are a Learning Management System, and at the heart of every training department, there really are very few problems we can’t help trainers solve. Training has changed so much.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 28, 2015

The Science of Learning Community Theatre was a change of pace for me as we got to hear from several professionals that are researching how neuroscience affects how we learn and how to use the brain’s capabilities to help minimize the effects of the Forgetting Curve.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 20, 2016

Not that brilliant sales program you helped to design – but the bad, the boring and the “Kill me now” stuff. We have worn down the hopeful and motivated learners in our organizations, but we can change this perception. In short, ask for help. People need help now , not when we decide to host a workshop. Click To Tweet.

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 8, 2023

Let others see you asking for help freely and without judgment, give help when asked. Focus on learner dynamics. Develop a coaching style that encourages learners to speak with courage. Encouraging and expressing gratitude reinforces the learner’s sense of self. Pay close attention to classroom behaviors.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

But wouldn’t it be cool, if they had help from a source, that thoughtfully built a curated library so the people didn’t have to sift through the bazillion pieces of interwebs information to find what they need? Helping people do their jobs, better, smarter, faster, cheaper. Can’t people just use the Google machine?

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 23, 2017

They are taking SME experts, recording them and creating organizational podcasts or “radio stations” They are gathering informed end-users and helping them create user-generated content that can then be curated, reviewed, organized and made accessible to the masses. We create because we want to help people be better.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As I have written about in the “ Curious Learner “ ) Now, I get why some people are in occupations that they may not love – the money is good, it is part of family tradition, or they started out loving it but now want a divorce. Conferences are great places to satiate your hunger for knowledge.

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