There’s a joke going around about COVID-19 being the single most important factor driving digital transformation in organizations. You know what they say, “it’s funny because it’s true.” For years, co...
Trust is the glue that holds relationships together, regardless of their nature. Businesses are made of people and for them, so trust is essential for the organizational culture. I don't believe this ...
It’s hard to believe that by now, whoever is reading this has not attended at least one virtual training, workshop, or even team-building attempt. It’s been a year since almost everything has become r...
Evaluating learning programs is a continuous challenge for instructional designers and L&D specialists. There seems to be a consensus that the higher you go on the Kirkpatrick model, the better. Yet, ...
In my last piece, I have talked about the need for corporate training and learning to become more user-centric and less business-oriented. People learn better when there is a powerful emotion (ideally...
There are different opinions and statistics about how much information sticks once a learning intervention comes to a close. Regardless of the differences, none of these predictions are flattering for...
Digital transformation has been an organizational goal for quite some time now. Recently, companies being forced to move their operations online proved to be the ultimate digital transformation test. ...
The business world has been subjected to constant shifts for a while now. The global health crisis was yet another gamechanger. For L&D departments, it meant taking center stage and doing their best t...
Talking about leadership development, most materials focus on identifying high potential candidates and ensuring they access the programs needed to achieve that potential. However, the subject of high...
The butterfly effect concept is a powerful one. I’m not convinced that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a typhoon halfway across the world, and yet the imagery has stayed with me to this day. ...
The issue of quantifying L&D results in organizational outcomes is an old and sticky one. There are numerous factors why this is so difficult, yet executives and learning specialists everywhere are st...
Usually, when you invite people over for a meal, you expect them to eat what's on the table and compliment your cooking. That is expected due to the established social convention. Most hosts strive to...
While the "stay at home" orders more or less took companies by surprise (meaning that they were not at all prepared to deal with the implications), it’s been fairly clear for months now that once the ...
It’s easy for anyone to realize that the plans made at the start of 2020 were not followed through to the letter. The year turned out to be one for contingency plans and putting out small fires while ...
Memorable moments are the backbone of learning, whether formalized or not. If you think of any important lesson you have ever learned in your life, you are bound to relate it to an occurrence that had...
My social media seems to be flooded lately with all kinds of memes about 2020 finally being over (with hopes that the health crisis will also end), and everyone is happy about it. There are also many ...
