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FOR MEN ONLY – LEARN HOW TO BE A REAL MAN

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THE TED PRESENTATION JACKSON MAKES MUST BE WATCHED AND REMEMBERED. TO ALL THE MEN WHO READ THIS. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH ALL THE MEN YOU KNOW … WATCH JACKSON KATZ TEACH AN IMPORTANT LESSON FOR MENFiled under: Managing Minds.

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Learning Tip Number 3: Why Storytelling Works

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If we listen to a PowerPoint presentation with boring bullet points, a certain part in the brain gets activated. t''s in fact quite simple. Scientists call this Broca''s area and Wernicke''s area. Overall, it hits our language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words into meaning. And that''s it, nothing else happens.

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A Basic Primer on MOOCs

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So I look at this TED presentation about once a month to get a refresh on the basic reasons why MOOCs are so important. I’ve been posting about MOOCs since they first appeared. Easy to get lost in the trees and forget to see the forest. The message gets lost too often in the static […]. Learning'

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The Conference in Paris

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I recently had the honor of presenting the research from my latest book Minds at Work at the 2018 Learning Technologies Conference and iLearning Forum in Paris, Porte de Versailles.

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Corporate Training’s $70+ Billion Dirty Secret

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Corporations should be watching closely to see if new methods of delivering training result in a dramatic increase in retention among employees once they’re on the job--because if Kohn is right, even a whopping 400% increase in retention will mean that after just one week, it means the average employee is retaining only about half of the information (..)

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Corporate Training’s $70+ Billion Dirty Secret

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Corporations should be watching closely to see if new methods of delivering training result in a dramatic increase in retention among employees once they’re on the job--because if Kohn is right, even a whopping 400% increase in retention will mean that after just one week, it means the average employee is retaining only about half of the information (..)

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Learning is a process — not a series of discrete training events

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Because the material presented is not reinforced and internalized through experience. Most classes offered by organizations are essentially a waste of time.