The number one factor in engagement is relevance because relevance drives out resistance.” Clive Shepherd

Happy Friday once again! I hope this finds you doing well and looking forward to something fun this weekend. I’m happy to see the days starting to get a little longer and the temperatures hopefully starting to trend back up in the right direction.

Here are this week’s finds. Thanks for reading!

What I’m Listening to: This morning I’m working along to these 70s & 80s acoustic tunes

Last week’s most clicked item:
3 Myths You Need to Reject to Make More Visual
Content with Simplified Graphics

What Will Be Hot in Workplace L&D In 2020

If you think there’s too much noise out there and not enough hard fact, you’re not alone. Take a look at the results of Donald Taylor’s (@donaldhtaylor) seventh annual Learning & Development Global Sentiment Survey to help you plan your L&D strategies for 2020 and beyond. You can also join Don to hear more about it in an upcoming webinar.

The L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2020 – first thoughts

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

I feel like I’ve shared this before? I haven’t cool…even if I have, I’m gonna share it again because I think this is an important concept that everyone should know. And you should be subscribed to the Farnam Street blog cause if you’re not you’re really missing out on a lot of good stuff.

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

Our New Role: Bringing Kindness To Work

People want meaningful jobs, fair pay, transparency, and growth. But most of all, they want kindness.

https://joshbersin.com/2020/01/our-new-role-bringing-kindness-to-work/

My biggest social media mistake

Great point from John Stepper (@johnstepper) about experiencing how, through the purposeful sharing of contributions using different tools, you can become more effective and increase the chances of coming into contact with more opportunities.

https://workingoutloud.com/blog/my-biggest-social-media-mistake

Why Refusing to Discuss Failure Erodes a Culture of Growth

Success theater is, at its core, an informal operating system that says to employees: “you’re expected to win, and you should only discuss wins. Failures need not be exemplified.”

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/refusing-to-discuss-failure-erodes-growth

A few other things just because I can.

Tools & Resources

• [voice apps] Voiceflow – Design, prototype and build voice apps in your browser with no coding
• [design] Sleek Bundle – free collection of illustrations for your next project
• [design] Glaze curated royalty-free illustration library
• Nine Good Sources of Public Domain & Creative Commons Audio
• [learning tech] Did you know SurveyGizmo has xAPI integration?
• [tools] Draw, diagram and collaborate with Creately.
• [tools] Screencastify is a slick screencast tool for Chrome
• [tools] Krisp AI-powered noise cancellation meeting dialer. Cancels out background noise on your end of the call.

Conferences & Learning Events

• ATD TechKnowledge is in San Jose next week. Follow along via #ATDTK2020
• Learning Technologies 2020 is coming up on February 12-13 in London. Follow @LearnTechUK and #LT20UK
• LearnTec is was this week in Germany. Check @learntecnews and #learntec2020 to peek in on the festivities
• Check out the upcoming conference schedule
• L&D webinars and professional development events calendar by Kari Knisely (@KariKnisely)

Call for Speakers:

• LearningTechDay in Belgium is looking for some good speakers. Could that be you?
• TechLearn Conference 2020 in Austin | Call for Presenters (Deadline is March 2) https://buff.ly/2OdNxZx

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