Wonderful Brain

MAY 17, 2011

So many words have been written about dysfunctional organizations, if weighed would easily capsize…oh, say an aircraft carrier. Those who work in cubicles are often victims of enterprises that are so inefficient and in some cases borderline dysfunctional it’s stunning anything of value is created.

Consulting 51

Consulting Harassment Training Juice Server 51

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And the organization expects each generation, besides tolerance, adapt as necessary to improve performance and solve problems through learning and training experiences. Can the design ever be perfect. But reasonable learners in all generations can recognize when attempts are made to entice them into a learning experience.

Cognitive 72

Cognitive Courseware Social Media Instructional Design 72

Wonderful Brain

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It would bother me that my grown children would not see solutions for some of the largest organizations in the world. Before I could organize the space, I came face to face with heavy decisions and the weight of emotions they carried. As ego goes, I’m far from immune. And reminding me I’m so much closer to the end than the beginning.

Write Blog 40

Write Blog Culture Reference Research 40

Wonderful Brain

MAY 25, 2011

This narrative, acquired from group work sourced far away from the cube farm must be organized to bridge the gap between the problem or project to be addressed and a method of delivering the required knowledge, skills, and behaviors. Content Grows from Stories. Learn to build conversations that can morph into a big story.

Social Media 83

Social Media Media Social Cognitive 83

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 26, 2012

Far too often organizations for too many reasons compromise their brand when their products fail to live up to the brand promise—or the brand overstates what the company is capable of producing. The fundamental concept is a company has a belief system and a vision as the basis from which a brand is established.

Apple 54

Apple Cognitive Metrics Attitudes 54

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

For instance, in a short form course, organizations might deliver one or two elements of knowledge, skills or behaviors, make it interactive and/or with gamification and require responses. This approach has elements of microlearning but it benefits the learner because it is repeated in other modalities & technologies.

Learning Styles 40

Learning Styles Corporate eLearning Instructional Instruction 40

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Realizing no one can be trained to handle every type of emergency; nevertheless, without a substantial set of guidelines the organization was placing too much responsibility on inexperienced…mostly new trainees. I must admit I found it not a little bit satisfying. Oh, and even better, I did get the last flight out.

Simulations 64

Simulations Emergent Change Policies 64

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2014

Where is Alignment in the Organization? Instead corporate education needs to innovate, devising learning experiences to lure employees by offering a variety of ways to interact with information, absorb and most importantly use what they learned to be better at what they do—for themselves and the organization.

Courseware 62

Courseware Social Networks Attitudes Instant Messaging 62

Wonderful Brain

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The temptation to employ every idea and methodology is an organic consequence of information overload. With the gate down learning designers can roam far and wide (and deep) to match content, to methods of communication to outcomes. The challenge is just because we can do anything doesn’t mean we have to do everything.

Information Overload 51

Information Overload Informal Instructional Design Cognitive 51

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 29, 2011

Heres an opportunity to get a top-ranked, well regarded, disciplined expert in your organization on an as add needed basis, providing a fresh and objective look at your learning operation, keeping the ship on on course. Cant bring down production costs or ramp up your talent, lets take a look.

Brain 51

Brain Business RSS Metrics 51

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Heres an opportunity to get a top-ranked, well regarded, disciplined expert in your organization on an as add needed basis, providing a fresh and objective look at your learning operation, keeping the ship on on course. Cant bring down production costs or ramp up your talent, lets take a look.

Brain 40

Brain Social Networks Cognitive RSS 40

Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Leverage their primary mental framework and traits while chunking and organizing information with enrichment materials to enhance learning retention. 2. Organize courses to take advantage of engineers drive away from ambiguity. Two Methods for Designing Learning Engineers will Appreciate.

Engineering 44

Engineering Learner Cognitive Examples 44

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Whereas movement can be evaluated against expectations or scales of achievement, motivation is opaque to the organization seeking its presence. Many companies thrive with lousy leadership—but none can survive without skilled managers, especially those who can meld some of the qualities of leadership into the organizing behaviors of managing.

Management 48

Management Change Leadership Effectiveness 48

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Some of this can be put on the known attitude that many organizations are neither innovators nor early adopters – either a blind spot or risk aversion stultifies their movement into new waters. By experience I’ve observed the bigger or fresher or more inventive the project, initiative or idea the less it will meet with initial acceptance.

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Portfolio Google Ideas Innovation 58

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 11, 2014

What I suggest is a different way of thinking about the learner perhaps reflected in Kirkpatrick but not aligned to its grid like way of organizing learner uptake. Traditional learning and development is about pushing out information. Rather the lens through which we should start is Charles Jennings’s 70:20:10 approach.

Custom 81

Custom Learner Off-shore Kirkpatrick 81

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2012

And where will teachers get the energy and time to organize and design and develop unique interactive texts. Even with the relative simplicity of the tools.

Authoring Tools 50

Authoring Tools Instructional Instruction Scanning 50

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 11, 2012

In a sense yes because the information I sought afterward was assembled organically and from curiosity. However, I was encouraged to study the writing and music of the time and received enrichment and delight. Is this informal learning? So is that a bad thing? Is the learning less important or salient?

Learner 56

Learner Moveable Type Movie Music 56

Wonderful Brain

APRIL 3, 2011

Heres an opportunity to get a top-ranked, well regarded, disciplined expert in your organization on an as add needed basis, providing a fresh and objective look at your learning operation, keeping the ship on on course. Cant bring down production costs or ramp up your talent, lets take a look.

Brain 51

Brain RSS Cognitive Comparison 51

Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 26, 2012

But for all that, plus missed deadlines and costs incurred by backwards facing repair work, the organization was impressed enough with the visual look and the rolling out of low-level content to be satisfied. I harbor a patent dislike for packaged authoring tools like Articulate. This is a systematic failure.

Articulate 51

Articulate Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Cognitive 51

Wonderful Brain

APRIL 11, 2011

I asked a colleague who was quite sanguine about this and we agreed there are virtually no new positions for directors, managers or above in the big leagues — organizations are just playing musical chairs with execs. So I ask, where have the learning leaders in major corporations gone? Well, mostly salaries, etc.,

Corporate eLearning 77

Corporate eLearning Flash to HTML5 Conversion Pinnacle Courseware 77

Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 30, 2018

How nature-like the gentle curves – the organic, sinewy forms of the Japanese arcs contrasted with the heavier, brutal machine like straight blades of Western armaments. The joy it brings me – not in its ownership but its organic form, the comfort, the materials, and its build quality tell me I made a great decision.

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Design Culture Quality Director 40