“How can I be more like Andrew Barry? How can I turn the content that I’m teaching in real-time into evergreen content? How can I show up and be the master of facilitation instead of always being the sage on the stage?” By most accounts, ODCC was a colossal success executed in only four months. …
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The hardest part of being an online course creator is selling your course. You need a perfect sales offer to convince people to take the plunge. This journey starts with building an audience, which will be the topic of another blog post. But once you have fans interested in your content, you need to provoke …
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We filed into the hall and found our pod. Sat down next to each other, we eyed our Grade 4 counterparts from the other schools. The cards were in a stack next to the moderator. The first card was dealt, face up. It was worth 1 point, so an easy start. On it was four …
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Early course creators gave online courses a bad name. They were marketers shilling knowledge to maximize profit. Margins were monstrous. Business was good. But the rot was setting in. Ten percent completion rates were the norm, and the customer experience was broken. When courses work, students are transformed. And when students are transformed, they tell …
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He fumbled with the soft flesh and skin, searching for a good grip. He found it. Slowly he raised it to his mouth, biting down into it, squishing the cinnamon-coated flesh between his gums and pulling it off the floppy skin. He grinned. We had a breakthrough. He loves cinnamon-baked apples. Teaching our son to …
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“And then you start thinking like an octopus.” There is a moment in the captivating Netflix documentary, in between laughing and crying, that I had an epiphany. It was when filmmaker Craig Foster said, “I needed to learn everything.“ I make a living helping people create training courses, and as I watched the film, I …
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Lessons from Jefferson, Kant, and the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. “I have an aunt in Hamburg, but she is dead,” said Count Sagramoso in broken German. “Why didn’t you have her skinned and stuffed?” replied the schoolmaster. Wait, what? In our age of social media and soundbites, it’s not too hard to imagine this triggering …
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If you read Part 1 of this series on group learning you’ll know why learning with others is so powerful. Let’s recap where we left off. For group learning to deliver on the promise of transformation, you need two distinct kinds of groups for students to belong to – Journey Groups and Destination Groups. And …
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My early writing for Curious Lion was terrible. I used to be a decent writer, back when I wrote about things that interested me. But I couldn’t find my voice writing about online training. Every other week I’d get a piece of content out that was as dry as the paper it was written on. …
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There’s this concept in the movie Inception, that you never quite know how a dream started. You always just find yourself in the middle of it. It feels incredibly real, and you’re completely focused on what happens next. This makes me think about the decisions I’ve made in my life that have led me to …
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