The role of an L&D professional is tough You’re constantly at the whim of the needs of the business, yet you never have time to conduct the needs analysis you know you must do. Management thinks training is the top-down creation of events and courses that will magically fix real business issues. You are left …
The Learning Culture Officer (1 of 4): Something Needs To Change Read More »
This article won’t tell you what to price your online course. It will tell you how to think about pricing your online course. Writing this article made me change the price of mine. After reading this, you’ll have the tools to understand the consumer psychology that goes into pricing anything. That’s ultimately what a price …
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I lost myself this year. I had a map, but it turns out it was the wrong map to follow. Thanks to what I realized and will reveal in this review, I know where I went wrong, and I’m a better person and in a better position for it. But if it wasn’t for some …
Ever wondered how experts master a new skill? In almost all cases, it’s by harnessing the compounding power of deliberate practice. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use deliberate practice to go from novice to expert in the shortest and most efficient route possible. The inspiration for this article is the …
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“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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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