Nick Leffler

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Daytime Formal Corporate Instruction To Informal Online Course Platforms

Nick Leffler

This post isn’t about formal learning but I wanted to use that as a segue because my day job is more in the formal corporate learning space. My goal of this post is to share my newest project that I just started working on a few weeks ago and why I’m doing it. I enjoy…

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Find Your Why – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler

There were a few tidbits of information in… The latest business book I finished is Find Your Why by Simon Sinek with David Mead & Peter Docker (also on Amazon). This book was not really content that should have been a book, though. I feel like I wasted a lot of time because of that.

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Turn The Curiosity Back On

Nick Leffler

Somewhere between 4th and 8th grade formal education turned the switch of curiosity off to create the expectation that information is delivered to you. So, how do you reach those people with the valuable information that learning is the work and the work is learning? It got me thinking about how people get complacent in their job.

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Don’t Control Knowledge, Let the Base Free

Nick Leffler

Just as trying to organize information into neat categories rarely works and is not useful, so is access levels useless. This method of organizing and controlling access to information is a remnant of the hierarchy. It takes a lot of management and maintenance to keep information up-to-date, perhaps more than is possible.

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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

There’s a lot of information coming at us. It’s more important than ever to learn how to manage all this information. It’s not possible to read everything you run across, so it’s important to learn how to manage information in a meaningful way. Sometimes it really does feel like this. Am I alone there?

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Are You Appy?

Nick Leffler

I prefer to go the website route because I can provide a great deal of information to people across devices and it’s easy for me to keep up. When I need to get access to information through my organization, it doesn’t ever have to be from an app unless it has to be. The post Are You Appy?

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Modeling a Training Framework

Nick Leffler

is a lot of information, then you add showing it to them into the mix and it has now become overwhelming and tiresome. So, while it may help you cover a great deal of information efficiently, information is often not the answer though. Telling someone how to do something (or even about it!)

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