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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. It is without irony that I share this fact: In a Wall Street Journal survey of over 900 executives, 92% reported soft skills, including communication, curiosity, and critical thinking are as important as technical skills. Moving forward.

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Summer Reading 2016

Learningtogo

Each year, I write the same basic post about why your brain needs a vacation and each year I fail to really take one myself. So I’m not going to regale you with all the studies that show how your brain benefits from a change in the daily routine and is recharged by traveling to different places. Tick Tock This Makes Your Brain Rock.

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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. Letting your mind wander opens it up to inspiration and innovative thought. Our brains normally look for patterns to help make sense of the world. Simply trying new things will help train the brain to think in new ways.

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Learning Myths vs Science/ Approaches to Creating Effective Learning

TechSmith Camtasia

He integrates a deep understanding of thinking and learning with technology to improve organizational execution, innovation, and ultimately performance. The old model of the brain was that we’re these logical, reasoning beings. Our brains like to categorize things, but it isn’t always helpful.

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HOW WE BUILD PASSIVE LEARNING CULTURES

Learnnovators

An active, intellectually engaged culture matters because it contributes directly to the bottom-line, to expertise generated within the organization, to value created for employees and stakeholders alike, as well as to creativity, innovation and research, to name just a few areas of benefit.

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Analogous Research: How Connecting with Company Peers Can Increase Creativity

Maestro

Analogous learning takes into consideration that 80 percent of new ideas are based on a preexisting concept, but when you make the research suit your needs, you’ll uncover your own personalized and innovative solution. Think of it like journaling. In the circle on the left, jot down the biggest challenges facing your team.

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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.