A famous cartoon shows a bird, a monkey, a penguin, an elephant, a fish (in a bowl), a sea lion, and a dog lined up in front of a teacher, who sits at his desk and tells them: “For a fair selection, e...
Presentations are useful tools for sharing information and knowledge. You see them in classrooms, conference venues, and board meetings. They are used by virtually everyone. In any educational setting...
In unusual times as these, some people might experience feelings of grief. Some grieve the loss of someone they loved: the virus is ruthless as that it takes the most vulnerable among us, our beloved ...
Due to the novel Coronavirus pandemic, businesses across the globe have been forced to adapt quickly to the new reality or to accept irreparable losses or even extinction. “Work from home” has become ...
Organizations and companies must adapt to the ecosystem in which they operate if they want to survive. Call it the Darwin approach to business, but in the fierce competition of the market, only the fi...
Organizations are different, as people are different and create different cultures. As human beings, we feel the need to fit it: we thrive when people embrace the same value as those of the organizati...
In 1992, James Carville coined the famous – or rather infamous – phrase: It’s the economy, stupid. Several decades on, it is still used in many political debates on TV or in heated conversations about...
Training materials are one of the main means to deliver new content and educate learners. Most trainers use PowerPoint presentations and PDF files on a daily basis, they are even experts at designing ...
Learning has a social side that cannot be ignored. For millennia, humans have learned new things from other members of the community and have shared their knowledge in return. Along the way, the task ...
According to a study conducted by Gallup, 70 percent of US workers are not engaged at work. It’s an astonishingly high figure! Disengagement has many faces: employees might feel disconnected from thei...
With technology changing work environments so fast, it is common sense that if you want to stay competitive on the labor market (or simply to survive and have a job), you need to approach learning and...
As social beings, humans have relied on cooperation to innovate and create wonderful things throughout their history. If we think about it, we have become the dominant species on Earth because we mana...
A new year comes with new resolutions: lose those extra pounds, go to the gym more often (after all, you pay that annual subscription for a reason, isn’t it?), read more, spend less time scrolling on ...
We tend to think of teams as homogeneous groups of people working in the same space, at the same time, and having an on-site supervisor. This has been the norm throughout history, but with the current...
We are social animals and the need to bond with other individuals is hard-wired in our DNA. With our family, our friends or with our colleagues, we build relationships that define how we feel, how we ...
Subject-matter experts (SMEs) are individuals with a deep understanding of a process, a technology or a part of the business. They are an indispensable asset for companies, as they can find creative s...
