“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s been a beautiful week around here as we head towards some R&R on Michigan’s beautiful beaches next week and a few visits to some college campuses along the way. I hope you’re getting some time for rest and relaxation wherever you are. Thanks for reading!
What I’m Listening To: Gwyn Wansbrough shared this playlist in her newsletter recently to use as intro music for online meetings and webinars. It’s good for working along with today too!
The 85% Rule for Learning
If you’re always successful, it’s hard to know what to improve. If you constantly fail, you won’t learn what works. Only when we have a mixture of success and failure can we draw a contrast between good and bad strategies. Learning, it seems, is optimized for both humans and machines when we succeed around 85% of the time.
https://medium.com/mind-cafe/the-85-rule-for-learning-53aed2e40d60
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How to Make the Case for Non-Traditional Learning Solutions
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara had a couple of great posts this week. This one has advice about pitching non-traditional learning solutions. While you’re there, be sure to check out Doubling Down on Knowledge Sharing Over Training too!
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Smart Brevity®
You may know Axios from their news operations. They have spent years digging into data, science and consumer trends and saw most folks are: Overwhelmed, Under-informed, Frustrated and tight on time. Then they built a format to fix that. The result is Smart Brevity -clearer updates, happier readers. Something we all need more than ever!
https://www.axioshq.com/smart-brevity
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Why Filters Are Important for Knowledge Development
The expectation that we can process 100% of the material from one stage to the next is flawed. We need to adopt the mindset of filtering, not funnelling. Jeffrey Webber says, “It’s time to shift from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance; stop trying to process every idea completely out of fear of losing it.”
https://medium.com/@jeffreywebber_/why-filters-are-important-for-knowledge-development-edb89aa23fc2
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Tips L&D in 2022
Jeffrey Dalto asked learning and development experts from around the world a single, two-part question: “What is something you feel people in L&D might sometimes be able
to improve on, and what tip(s) can you offer to assist with that improvement?” This is all 40 of their answers. Don’t miss it!
https://hpttreasures.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/ld-tips-2022-2.pdf
- A/V Editing Extravaganza with Descript with Jeff Rozic on Learning Tech Talks
. - The benefits of storytelling for learning on the Mindtools L&D podcast
. - Big Learning Results with Little Experiments with Shannon Tipton on the IDIOC podcast
- Quicktools is a collection of online tools to design, edit, and convert your digital creations
. - Openillux is a curated list of collections of the awesome free illustrations from around the web
. - Auxi is billed as the “smartest PowerPoint add-in” which has some pretty cool looking AI features
. - Flux Forms is a #NoCode form builder for collecting data
. - Meetmonic is a way to create custom, sharable URL’s for your online meetings.
- VOV Pitstop Antwerp – September 15
- DevLearn Las Vegas – October 24-28
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