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How To Drive Continuous Learning and Build a Learning Organization

October 14, 2021 October 14, 2021 / By Curious Lion Team

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch L&D teams can help companies transform into learning organizations by adding continuous learning opportunities during every step in the employee journey. These steps include onboarding, ongoing development & training, career paths, knowledge management practices, …

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The Power of Deliberate Practice: 5 Steps to Skill Mastery

October 4, 2021 October 4, 2021 / By Andrew Barry

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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My 15-year Course Creator Journey: From Quitting my Corporate Job to $350k in a Month

July 20, 2021 August 20, 2021 / By Andrew Barry

“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 Perfect Sales Offer For Your Online Course

April 19, 2021 April 22, 2021 / By Andrew Barry

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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Superstar Teachers: Making Teaching Great Again

March 4, 2021 March 4, 2021 / By Andrew Barry

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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Top 5 Best Practices for Managing Remote Training

February 4, 2021 February 4, 2021 / By Curious Lion Team

Top 5 Best Practices for Managing Training for Remote Workers Did you know that, according to a Gallup poll, 33% of US workers are always working remotely—and two-thirds of these remote workers want to continue working remotely? This trend, because of the current pandemic and changes in the way we work online, is only going …

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The Currency of Education Is Transformation

January 19, 2021 February 3, 2021 / By Andrew Barry

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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My Beginner’s Mind for Creating Online Courses

November 13, 2020 December 9, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

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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The Octopus Whisperer

October 30, 2020 November 2, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

“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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How to Host a Dinner Party and Save Society

October 12, 2020 October 13, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

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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