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Tips from TED: Presenting ideas to engage your teams

Degreed

What is that X factor that makes someone else’s words stick to your brain and alter the way you think? How can you present ideas in ways that really truly engage your teams? Frame your communication around a unique idea. But, if you create your communication around a topic, you’ll end up with too much information.

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This Is Your Learner’s Brain on Coffee

Learningtogo

Should we be pumping our learners with the beverage in order to maximize brain performance and memory, or weaning them off it to support long-term health? How Caffeine Works in the Brain. Technically, it’s not really coffee itself that is the issue; it’s the caffeine that the drink delivers to our brains.

Brain 100
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Your Brain: The Ultimate Electronic Performance Support System

Dashe & Thomson

One thing that occurred to me is that I’m increasingly less likely to remember detailed information about sites that interest me. I was inclined to think that though the amount of information available to me might be increasing, the net effect was ultimately just a shallower understanding of things, with no real expertise.

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Hire the heart and train the brain

Litmos

Hire the heart and train the brain; this is an axiom that many of us have heard before. However, I am making the argument that "soft skills" should be renamed "Core Skills", in that without these skills you will not succeed in the workplace as we move beyond the industrial age to the information age. . Hire for attitude, train skill.

Brain 63
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Friday Finds — Persuasive Storytelling, Power of Words, Objectives

Mike Taylor

The ultimate goal is to motivate the audience to take action – be it adopting new methods or embracing new ideas. Take away : Use persuasive storytelling to transform information sharing into a powerful tool for motivating action. For more in-depth information, please refer to the study. He’s one of the best!)

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How To Be More Creative: 10 Activities to Try

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Most of us wouldn’t choose a job in a busy restaurant as a way to relax our brains, but it works for Sheldon. It’s why we often have our best ideas in the shower or right before falling asleep. Our brains normally look for patterns to help make sense of the world. Make up a simple song to help you remember new information.

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Learning Styles and E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

the previous week), I received a lot of views and a lot of comments, with well over 90% telling me basically that there is no such thing as learning styles, that it has been debunked, that it lacks empirical evidence, that I myself have no idea on what I am talking about, that I am subjective and opinionated (okay, fair point) and on and on.