There is a dichotomy in business today. One the one hand, companies today have never had greater access to the tools and resources needed to enhance worker productivity. On the other hand however, employees have never had more diverse and disparate sources of information as they do now. Modern workers may be required to spend up to 50% of their work time in non-productive activities like learning new processes, searching for archived data or reviewing the latest methods for accomplishing a standard job task. This is the inefficient side of rapid business change. Let’s look at it this way. MORE >>

In it, there's a chapter on Columbus, Ohio, where leaders are giving up on being heroes and learning to become hosts, instead. . You can read more about it here , but I wanted to pull a quote that gets at the concept of leader as host, not as hero. . Leaders who act as hosts rely on other people’s creativity and commitment to get the work done. Leaders-as-hosts see potential and skills in people that people themselves may not see. And these leaders know that hosting others is the only way to get largescale, intractable problems solved. want to be the host. MORE >>

We are pleased to announce that our friend and colleague  RJ Jacquez   (@rjacquez) will be guest hosting our weekly #TalkTech chat this Thursday, May 17th at 3 pm EST. RJ is a former Senior Evangelist for Adobe who now spends his time as a Mobile Learning Analyst and consultant. His blog, The m-Learning Revolution Blog , is a highly regarded resource for the latest in mLearning news, trends, and analysis. He also actively shares mLearning information via his Facebook Page. Just use the #TalkTech hashtag to participate. More on this week’s topics: 1. New Trend? MORE >>

Read on for notes from a webinar today, April 9, 2009: Building Better Learning Games: Leveraging Game Design and User Testing for Results Our hosts today: Enspire Learning (Ben Katz) Doorways to Dreams D2D -- financial entertainment. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Work with and for consumers how to better manage their money. Focus on casual video games. Poll: Do you play any of these? Income is collected. MORE >>

Jeff Cobb has recently added webinars and C-level breakfasts to round out his consultation offerings to the Association space. His upcoming webinar, entitled “ Essentials of LMS Selection: Getting It Right the First Time ,” is slated for March 17 th. am thrilled that Jeff and Celisa had the can-do spirit to build a research and consulting practice dedicated to Association eLearning. Education departments looking to replace decade old LMS systems or build new eLearning initiatives powered by an LMS have long used their Association LMS report for guidance. MORE >>