The 10 Lies of Learning: Lie #6: “But What About the _____ Generation?!?”
Continuing our countdown of the biggest lies in Learning & Development, we reach #6—the persistent myth that generational differences fundamentally change how people learn and work. “The millennials need bite-sized microlearning!” “Gen Z won’t sit through anything longer than a TikTok video!” “Boomers can’t adapt to digital learning!” “Gen X needs work-life balance in their […]
Exploring the HyFlex Frontier: Building Effective Corporate Learning Experiences
I love attending a conference or a client-sponsored training event. The buzz of the vendor hall, meeting new people, the excitement of learning new things. BUT…the cost is so high – both financially and personally. On top of the registration fee, there’s airfare, hotels, meals—not to mention the time away from home and all the […]
The 10 Lies of Learning: Lie #7: Our [Insert L&D Capability] is Broken and Awful”
Continuing our countdown of the biggest lies in Learning & Development, we arrive at #7—the persistent complaint that something in L&D is fundamentally broken, when the real issues often lie elsewhere. “Our onboarding is terrible.” “Our leadership development is broken.” “Our performance management system is a disaster.” “Our learning technology is woefully outdated.” Sound familiar? In my years […]
Microlearning Moments: How to Integrate Learning in the Flow of Work
How many times have you attended a training session, returned to the office full of great ideas, and then promptly lost that knowledge or new skill because you weren’t able to apply it immediately? I can’t even begin to list how often that’s happened to me. Especially when it’s a focused skill. For me, the […]
The 10 Lies of Learning: Lie #8: “Thou Shalt Comply”
As we continue our countdown of the biggest lies in Learning & Development, we arrive at #8—the persistent myth that mandating learning completion drives behavioral change. Let me be crystal clear about what I’m addressing here. This is NOT an attack on compliance training itself. Harassment prevention, safety protocols, data security, and other regulatory training […]
The Magic of Branching Scenarios
A couple of weeks ago I came across an article about the significance of choices for readers’ sense of agency. The author shared her childhood reading experience with the Choose Your Own Adventure book series—gamebooks allowing the young readers to assume the role of the protagonist and make choices that determine the story flow and […]
The 10 Lies of Learning: Lie #9: Learning is Over Here in the Training Room; Work is over There in the Office
Continuing our countdown of the biggest lies in Learning & Development, we arrive at #9—the artificial separation of learning and work that has been hampering organizational effectiveness for decades. Picture this: A fresh-faced employee emerges from a two-day training workshop armed with an entire new kit of new templates, methods, tools and more along with […]
Social Media’s Impact on eLearning
I took a brief break from work recently to visit with my Mother on Canada’s west coast. Waiting for my flight, I found myself mindlessly scrolling through my social media feed. In just fifteen minutes, I had consumed dozens of short videos, read several brief articles, and engaged with countless images. As I put my […]
Storyline: Reducing Interaction Complexity
Do you find yourself dreading the initial setup and endless revisions for innovative designs? Imagine being able to craft those flashy interactions effortlessly, without a complex mess of events. What if editing took minutes and not hours? If this sounds interesting, then get ready to step into the world of function layers. With each review […]
The 10 Lies of Learning, Lie #10: If We Build It (a Learning Program), They Will Come
Welcome to our countdown of the biggest lies in Learning & Development. We’re starting with #10 – a comforting fiction that has launched a thousand LMS implementations. You’ve seen the movie Field of Dreams. Kevin Costner hears a whisper in his cornfield: “If you build it, he will come.” He constructs a baseball diamond, and […]