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What’s Up With L&D (How Corporate Training Solutions Can Help)

May 7, 2020 June 12, 2020 / By Curious Lion Team

Training your corporate workforce is one of the most critical investments you’ll make to grow your business. From online learning guides to in-person training meetings, if you’re training programs aren’t effective, you can lose money on ineffective employees who don’t help your business succeed. You hired smart, capable people because you believed they are the best fits for …

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Cuomo’s Masterclass in Multimedia Learning Design

May 4, 2020 June 1, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

When conveying important information, it is hard to understate the importance of multimedia learning design in getting your message across. Right now, there is nothing more important than getting information about the coronavirus out to the world. If you live in New York state you will no doubt have seen one of Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s …

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5 Steps for Creating Online Learning – Are You Missing Any?

April 17, 2020 June 22, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

Online Learning Guide Contents Who is this online learning guide for? Why the shift to online learning could be a good thing. Differences for the learner between in-person and online learning. Be more intentional about your training design. Know your multimedia options for online learning delivery. The 5 steps in the online learning development process. …

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A Practical Guide for Hiring a Virtual Assistant

March 27, 2020 June 1, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

It took me over a year to get used to it. For months after starting my own business, I struggled to break out of the routine of corporate work hours and doing everything myself. Hiring a virtual assistant changed everything for me and my business. This practical guide will give you the exact steps I …

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How VR and AR Can Improve Skill Training

March 5, 2020 June 22, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

This post explores practical considerations for how VR and AR can help you design or develop soft skill training at your organization. The post was inspired by a discussion from our webinar series with Cortney Harding, founder of Friends with Holograms. Watch the full recording below or click here to download a PDF of this …

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Lessons Learned from Building Amazon

February 18, 2020 June 1, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

I recently finished reading Brad Stone’s book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. Here are my top lessons learned from Bezos building Amazon. What It’s About: Brad Stone is a journalist who covered Amazon from the early days of the company when it was a confusing company struggling for profits. This …

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Ikigai and the Importance of Being Curious

February 14, 2020 June 27, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

What gets you up in the morning? Recently I wrote to email subscribers with a story about discovering my number one personal value thanks to a probing question from a friend and a sharp retort of realism from my wife. I got a lot of responses and feedback. Everyone asks themselves this same question. The …

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Power Skills for the Future of Work

January 16, 2020 June 22, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

Today I spent the morning on a video call with my website design team in New Delhi. Then I had my daily stand-up with my operations manager in Amsterdam to design work processes and problem-solve for the week ahead. Later I had Slack conversations with my virtual assistants spread out across Bangladesh and my animator …

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Seven Essays to Improve Your Thinking in 2020

January 5, 2020 June 1, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

Every year I save dozens of articles for offline reading in Instapaper. This year I did a review of them for the first time. The best ones are timeless essays from independent online writers that helped me improve my thinking. Here are my top seven to help you decide what to read in 2020 to …

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Improve Your Video-Based Training with Film Techniques

January 1, 2020 June 1, 2020 / By Andrew Barry

Video-based training is back in a big way. The rise in remote work has necessitated a transition to virtual training. But no one can spend an entire day on a live Zoom training, as was previously the norm with in-person training. There is a greater need for more asynchronous learning. Enter video-based training, which is …

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