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Agile: An incredibly freeing way to work

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Doesn’t the project team think this is just incredibly controlling?”. The project team makes the plan. The project team includes the client, subject matter expert, team members and the project lead. The beautiful thing about this is that the entire process sets up what I like to call a “work-directed work team.”.

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The Waste of Motion

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Now when a less experienced team member has a question their mentor is just a chair swivel away. But calling an entire team meeting just for a quick question would be wasteful and having one person make a unilateral decision without knowing all the information could also be wasteful. What’s a team to do? Turn to Hipchat.

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The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart

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A company’s safety team uses a large number of legal, compliance, and procedural documents in their work, highlighting and annotating the documents as they go. An expert team member unexpectedly takes a leave from work and his teammates need to pick up where he left off. How do you stack up against other teams in the organization?

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Live Fearlessly

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One of the biggest cultural shifts that new team members at TorranceLearning face isn’t our casual-every-day dress code or the lack of enclosed offices. This takes new team members some getting used to. It’s not the open book finance or the daily sync up sessions. It’s our fearless estimating. We thank them for letting us know.

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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

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Whereas in a learning culture, responsibility for learning resides with each employee and each team. It’s less about output and more about the difference that learning makes for individuals, teams, and the entire organization. In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning.

Culture 100
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Catch up with Megan at TechKnowledge

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Stop by Booth 508 Megan & Michelle from the TorranceLearning team will be there to chat about xAPI, LMS, LRS, LLAMA (Agile Project Management), custom elearning, and more… (clearly, we love learning tech acronyms). Author Meet & Greet.

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Catch up with Megan at DevLearn 2017 on Oct 25-27

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Megan, Matt & Michelle from the TorranceLearning team will be there to chat about xAPI, LMS, LRS, LLAMA (Agile Project Management), custom elearning, and more… (clearly, we love learning tech acronyms). Link 801: xAPI: Where It’s At and How to Get Started 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Link Tuesday - Friday. Link Stop by Booth 128: Get xAPI Ready!

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