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Soren Kaplan, Leapfrogging to Learning Breakthroughs and Innovation, Opening Keynote at #LSCon

Learning Visions

These are my live blogged notes for the opening keynote at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions 2014 , happening this week in Orlando, Florida. Soren Kaplan, Redefining Innovation: Harness the power of surprise for business breakthroughs. E.g., the guy who founded Open Table had a different solution at first. InNOvation.

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Kaplan EduNeering Knowledge Summit: Day Two

Kapp Notes

He opened with a great story about Coach John Wooden. Everyone had a great time last night, we went on a cruise and today we are going to have a keynote by WIRED editor Thomas Goetz. He spoke on the topic of “How to Get better at anything&# Thomas Goetz making a point about technology.

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Putting People First

CLO Magazine

When it comes to learning, Jon Kaplan truly understands the importance of emotional engagement. Kaplan finally confessed his secret to a classmate and got the remedial help he needed, but by then he had become “incredibly ashamed” and his academic performance suffered through grade school. You’re more engaged; it’s more interesting.”.

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Study Abroad, Employers Love It

CLO Magazine

studied abroad, according to Open Doors’ report on international educational exchange, released in November 2015. A March research study commissioned by Kaplan Inc. Tags: diversity , global economy , international learning experiences , Kaplan Inc. This is one of the highest rates for U.S. To comment, email editor@CLOmedia.com.

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How HR Can Improve Psychological Safety in the Workplace

KnowledgeCity

Leaders are encouraged to be open minded and compassionate when employees challenge the status quo. [To Recognize and be open to the potential of untested, out-of-the box ideas. Focus on the fact that high performance is a natural outgrowth of open communication and the sharing of ideas and expertise. Facilitate the process.

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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

Like many bosses, Jon Kaplan thought he was a good leader. April 2019 Profile: Discover Financial’s Jon Kaplan. Jon Kaplan was, until May of this year, vice president of training and development for Discover Financial Services. Mike: With that let’s turn to this conversation with Jon Kaplan. Mike: Jon Kaplan.

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Session Notes: Breaking Down Silos @JD_Dillon #TrainingMag

Learning Visions

He supports the guys who work for Kaplan. JD was at Disney for awhile, AMC entertainment, and 5 years at Kaplan. How Kaplan applied social and how that has changed the way work gets done. So he said, wouldn''t it be amazing if we had Wikipedia for Kaplan? How is the work being done at Kaplan? That no one can find.