Learning Rebels

MARCH 24, 2021

As time marches on and as different historical events mold our thinking it’s natural that different products, hierarchies, and organizational structures beg for fresh thinking. This as other businesses pass them by with new products, services, and technologies.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 11, 2023

Increase productivity. Use productivity analysis data to tell the story of efficiencies. Use retention data to tell the story of employee turnover. Does a particular role have higher turnover rates? What does the data tell you about the needs of that role? Do certain tasks take longer than others?

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 4, 2019

We doom them to wasting their time when they could be doing something more productive. When you do, they are renting space in your head that is better suited for more productive thought and emotions. We doom the HUMANS in our organizations to training without context. To training without purpose. We then doom ourselves.

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 17, 2020

Consider advanced flexibility, productivity savings, and the ability to make your virtual learning programs part of a blended solution. COVID-19 notwithstanding, there are many benefits to consider when making the shift to a virtual learning platform from traditional instructor-led delivery.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Example: Business sponsor states they need a”Little product knowledge refresher program” out to the sales team in 3 weeks. Because of this perspective, we aren’t stuck in the same thinking about the business – the people, processes, and products – that people who are knee-deep in the business are. Working Backwards.

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Learning Rebels

JUNE 21, 2017

For me, conferences are all about connections – to ideas, people, vendors, products, ways of working and more! To people, ideas and products/vendors? I decided to go back to what I was hoping to get out of the conference – CONNECTIONS. ATD 2017 did not disappoint! Take Action!

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 24, 2017

Here’s the cool thing… you don’t have to be solely responsible for video production. Let the user-generated productions take center stage. In this day and age, there is simply no excuse for not producing video for the workplace. Now, I know we all have control issues. What if they mess up?

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Learning Rebels

MAY 18, 2018

Video has soooo many applications, and you don’t need a production studio either. . What I appreciated was that the session was not about using TechSmith products, although he did show “How to Make Text Dance in Camtasia.”. You have new ideas to bring back with you, and then those ideas build on other ideas. From Heidi Matthews.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 31, 2016

Productivity is a fair weathered friend, at best. Productivity is now an agent of evil, called procrastination. Sometimes it’s with you, holding your hand, moving you along while singing Margaritaville. Other times it’s hungover (most likely from said margarita’s) and can’t get out of bed in the morning.

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 28, 2024

By gathering analytics from a variety of sources, such as performance metrics (sales conversion rates), social learning discussions, and even productivity tools (are people using tools/techniques), instructional designers can gain a deeper understanding of the overall “need” versus “want.”

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Learning Rebels

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Understanding that creativity and curiosity go hand in hand, Francesca Gino, Professor at Harvard Business School, conducted a survey of 520 CLOs and found “[CLOs] discourage curiosity because the company would be harder to manage, and disagreements would arise slowing productivity and execution.”.

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 29, 2023

It begins by asking ourselves do – the classes we host, the guest speakers we provide, and the product(s) we create, Fully represent the diversity of our participants and other stakeholders? These teams can better identify potential biases, consider different viewpoints, and collaborate more effectively.

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Learning Rebels

JUNE 20, 2022

Help the business increase productivity By identifying teams or individuals who need skills support L&D helps plug the gaps that will make people “smarter, better, faster”. Therefore, establishing a strategy to ensure the organization has the right mix of talent, skills, competencies, and capabilities for the future.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 6, 2020

However, as time has marched on, organizations face certain problems using this delivery method, such as logistic issues, high cost of loss productivity, inability to connect learning back in the workplace, the inability to provide learning reinforcement and the list continues.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 27, 2023

By approaching mentoring as a two-way street, you are creating a more productive and meaningful win-win relationship. This dynamic creates a feedback loop that can lead to new insights and breakthroughs for both parties. Take constructive criticism: Here’s the hard bit for many people. Being open to criticism from your mentor.

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Learning Rebels

DECEMBER 10, 2015

There are times we have had to settle for a crappy product and that is okay. Any business that produces something, at times, will produce a crappy product. When was the last time you picked up a CURRENT book on instructional design, adult learning, or social learning to redirect your thinking and processes? Do it crazy different.

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Learning Rebels

JUNE 1, 2016

I’m not looking for work, and I have no product to hype. I’m sure the event production team had some problems somewhere (every event does!) I want to update my knowledge about what matters to whom and why, and conferences like this are the very best place to do it. Unlike some other speakers, there’s nothing for me sell.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Meg is a Senior Instructional Designer of Clinical and Product Education at Intuitive Surgical , a medical device company which makes the da Vinci Surgical System. I hope through this DevLearn series the importance of not only building but nurturing your own Personal Learning Community will jump to the top of your priority list. .

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

This is when your customer internally asks: “Why should I buy into this product, concept or idea?” In creating a good value proposition, the trick is to know your product. We need to think like marketers. What is your value proposition? What’s a value proposition, you may ask? Cammy Bean tell us why here. .

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 20, 2015

On frozen products: Product will be hot after heating. We all laugh at the crazy rules and warnings we see on basic day to day items. But as we all know, usually with some rule or piece of instruction there was a method behind the madness. On a hair dryer: Do not use while sleeping. On a sleep aid: Warning: May cause drowsiness.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The group consists of internal trainers, IDs and developers, business owners, product vendors, and consultants like myself. The broad range of experience and different perspectives that they bring to the table is invaluable to me and I could not wait for some quality face time with these folks.

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 10, 2015

TRILLION dollars in lost productivity. Wasted time, wasted productivity dollars. Digital skills gap today cost businesses $1.3 Yep, that trillion with a T. People spend upward to 21% looking for how to do sh** in your precious LMS, in your intranet, within SharePoint – wasted time.

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Learning Rebels

OCTOBER 2, 2015

While it may seem the time is wasted, you will find one creative thought often leads to other more productive thoughts. Play around in photoshop, create new drawings on your whiteboard, build a super hero out of all the cubes of sticky notes that are laying around. Call it Stan, the Sticky Note Hero.

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Learning Rebels

JULY 18, 2016

When my battery is low, my creative juices stop flowing and it’s hard for me to think originally and productively. But first, you can’t do that unless you stop to recharge your batteries. When I can’t think like a Rebel, I don’t produce work I’m happy with, it’s a vicious cycle.

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Learning Rebels

AUGUST 20, 2014

So the next time you reach for your deck of excuses as to why a learning initiative isn’t working, before you blame your customer for your product failure – I ask you take a long moment and reflect on the real reason for failure. You may find the answer in the mirror. Are we moving from “Sage on the Stage” to “Bully on the Bus”?

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 30, 2017

Would it be easier to sell a product such as cupcakes or puppy treats? The question at hand – why am I doing what I’m doing? Why am I in this line of work? Why aren’t I off nurturing two passions: baking and my dogs? Back to my roots. To answer this question, I must go back to my roots.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

I have yet to meet a learning professional who said, “I want to create the most boring, ineffective, unprofessional and non-productive training ever.” It is unfair to lump people into categories, especially when those categories clearly indicate a best/worst for a profession.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 29, 2015

We also launched a new product at #ATD2015 called Litmos Boost! Sure, for certain projects an additional authoring tool is nice to have, and we support them, but it’s by no means necessary to create a compelling and effective learning experience. We have an Apple watch app!

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Learning Rebels

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Non-communicative (groaning and howling instead of speaking): The instructional designer after endless, non-productive meetings with Subject Matter Experts using War and Peace as resource documents. Unemotional, with no mercy toward victims: The Learning Professional with the “crank it out now and fast” attitude.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This failure ultimately impacts employee productivity and motivation 1 creating a divide between those companies who are technology leaders and those who are falling behind. This creates gaps with employee engagement, productivity, and attrition – which is referred to as “Access Agony 4 ”.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 20, 2015

Forget it could be the company has a lousy product) or when workers comp claims goes up it’s usually Risk Management or HR who have a target on their back (not that operations takes unnecessary/risky shortcuts) – see where I’m going here? When profits fall it’s usually sales that takes the hit.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Because when we share our work; we grow, we learn, and we collectively get better and smarter (therefore, more effective, productive and efficient). The “How To’s”, the “Why For’s”, and the “Look At This!” ” Why?

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Learning Rebels

AUGUST 24, 2023

With these techniques, your teams have diverse tools to foster creativity, ensure all voices are heard, and address both productive and counterproductive practices. This helps in keeping the discussion focused and productive.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 25, 2018

Microlearning is all about performance support, and that is more than video production. This is a good way to start thinking when creating microlearning elements. 2) Microlearning is all about video. . Video is just one of many modalities that can be used to present your microlearning content.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 6, 2017

Finding a way to improve system-wide productivity at work. Someone delivering blankets to the homeless on a cold Chicago night. Someone hiking up the Hancock building for charity. Someone buying Christmas toys for foster kids. Those are badass actions too. Actions that we all have done, yet we forgot to add to the badass credit column!

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