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What Happens in a Story…Happens in Your Brain

Kapp Notes

Well, it turns out that there is empirical evidence to suggest that we actually do “act out” the story at some level in our brains or, at least, in the regions of the brain associated with aspects such as processing goal-directed human activity, navigating spatial environments, and manually manipulating objects in the real world.

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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? But, if you create your communication around a topic, you’ll end up with too much information. So what is that? Topics are high level.

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Video games as Good Teachers

Kapp Notes

Games induce players to create their own worlds, to participate in social activities, to form effective teams, to reason and to save lives [51]. There is a growing body of research concentrating on the ability of the brain to change in response to stimuli and behaviors that require intense stimulation such as video game playing.

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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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Friday Finds — Persuasive Storytelling, Power of Words, Objectives

Mike Taylor

Take away : Use persuasive storytelling to transform information sharing into a powerful tool for motivating action. Learn more → How Verb Tense Shapes Persuasion A study conducted by Jonah Berger and his team, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, focuses on the impact of our choice of words on our ability to persuade others.

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Learning Myths vs Science/ Approaches to Creating Effective Learning

TechSmith Camtasia

It all started when people realized that philosophers, linguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists all had valuable knowledge of the human brain but were just not sharing it with each other. The old model of the brain was that we’re these logical, reasoning beings. Why minimal information is best…with context.

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Cultivating Mentally Healthy Habits in LXD

Scissortail's Learning Nest

My team and I have been hard at work lately on a big project revising three large instructor-led training courses for a federal agency. What’s missing in the courses my team is revising—and in many learning experiences, including conferences—is a focus on participants’ mental well-being. Reading Time: 5 minutes. Introduction.