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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.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 1 Anxiety

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety, (Part 2 Information Overload coming May 17th). Although it might sound counterintuitive, the anxiety that employees feel to perform on the job at the outset of a training program actually helps them to retain information more effectively. The Anxiety of a New Job. & Dodson, J.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 1 Anxiety

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety, (Part 2 Information Overload coming May 17th). Although it might sound counterintuitive, the anxiety that employees feel to perform on the job at the outset of a training program actually helps them to retain information more effectively. The Anxiety of a New Job. & Dodson, J.

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Doing Conferences Differently – How to Beat Post-Conference Depression

Learningtogo

Soon, your memories of that learning experience, though positive, have receded into the cobwebs of your mind, right next to your college roommate’s third ex-boyfriend and that nagging reminder that you’ve neglected something important that keeps sounding a soft alarm in your brain. But that nagging alarm in your brain keeps throbbing.

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Doing Conferences Differently – How to Beat Post-Conference Depression

Learningtogo

Soon, your memories of that learning experience, though positive, have receded into the cobwebs of your mind, right next to your college roommate’s third ex-boyfriend and that nagging reminder that you’ve neglected something important that keeps sounding a soft alarm in your brain. But that nagging alarm in your brain keeps throbbing.

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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

Information Overload and Learning.” where Kevin points out: TMI floods the brain with data, preventing comprehension and elaboration, and thus, preventing learning. Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is “it can actually interfere with understanding.” Wesley points us to a post by Kevin Washburn “TMI!

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"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Or "Are We Dumbing Our Online Learners?"

Vignettes Learning

educational consortium, that provide access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. S cholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors to two popular research sites, one operated by the British Library and one by a U.K.

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