Last week I was in NYC for a great conference.  One evening, I decided to go to Macy’s, near my hotel.  The famous department store is huge – a complete city block and at least 9 floors of goodies everywhere.  I was in search of a pair of black pants.  Sounds simple, r...

When bringing in a new learning platform, what do you think of first?  How to use it?  What resources you will need?  How IT will partner with you?  What content you will need?  These are all important parts of the process, but I believe we need to think first about ad...

No question, you know that you need to implement digital learning.   Your employees and your leadership look to you to develop that learning culture, to make it easy for people to find what they need and to respond to the demands of today.   So, how do you get there?...

I hear many questions about how to curate and how to create effective learning paths or pathways.  Digital Learning has opened up the scope of what we CAN include in a path, but what SHOULD we include? 

Given that in most circumstances, employees will find a path b...

Working in high tech most of my career, I am no stranger to disruption.  We often said that the only constant was change.  When my large corporate strategy changed 3 years ago, it was due to the disruption in the world brought on from mobilization, globalization and co...

Change is here. Expectations have changed and now L&D needs to change too.

I used to work in a large, high tech corporation. Our corporate strategy changed a couple of years ago, when we started to talk to our customers about the shift in customer expectations to act li...

I recently had a client ask us to curate paths on some very cool topics. They were concerned that people were not finishing the whole path. That brought up a question – do paths need to be linear? Should they be? What is the right way to build competency? 

Of...

I subscribe to a number of learning blogs, webcast and websites, as I am sure you all do. Lately, I feel that I am watching the fashion industry – spring trends, fall trends, mini, micro, short, changes. I saw a webcast today that was the final straw. It pushed micro l...

Training, Learning, Enablement, Talent Development: changes in learning

Lately, I have seen a number of titles for people in the learning field. In the past, we pretty much described ourselves as trainers or as being in L&D. We developed; we trained.   Now we do so much...

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believe that moving your content into a learning path is the best way to address learner needs today. 

A bold statement that generates lots of questions from learning professionals:  what are paths, what makes a good learning path and where do I start to move my conten...