Dethroning the God of Content

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It’s easy when we’re trying to present something new, particularly in a training environment, to be overwhelmed by all there is to know and say on the subject. In fact, I’m often asked by trainers, “How do I cover all the information I have to share in the limited time I have?” I usually answer [...]

Triple Loop Learning

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You can’t manage knowledge workers. ~Peter Drucker As Peter Drucker’s quote implies, managing knowledge workers only holds them back. As we move deeper into the information age, it’s likely that many of those whom you facilitate, train, and lead will be knowledge workers to some degree. There has to be a more empowering way to [...]

Be a Catalyst for Clarity

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It’s easy when we’re trying to present something new, particularly in a training  and development environment, to be overwhelmed by all that we want our participants to know on the subject. As good trainers, teachers, and facilitators, we want our audience to get the most learning in the least time. The problem is that this [...]

Training & Development

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Effective adult training and development will emphasize participant engagement and co-creation of the course content so that relevant experience of participants is tapped and shared, and opportunities exist to practice new skills and receive feedback to assure learning transfer. In my opinion, effective training and development is really better defined as Learning Facilitation. We have several resources [...]