Mrs. Madsen-Leibold, my Afrikaans language teacher, called the class to her table. With interest piqued, we watched as she spilled her pencil bag onto her desk. She was about to demonstrate the ancient practice of Indian Code Sticks, a long-forgotten (and completely fabricated by my teacher, I’m sure) technique to warn allies of how many …
Sticky Stories: 4 Narrative Elements To Use in Your eLearning Read More »
Interactivity. It’s certainly a hot topic in the eLearning industry. But is it that important? Or is it just another addition to the L+D jargon pile? I was very curious about these questions, so I donned my instructional designer hard hat and did some digging. To guide you through my realizations, I’m going to show …
Interactivity Matters: 3 Steps to Boost Interactivity in Your Next Course Read More »
I remember my first digital camera. It was a silver Kodak EasyShare. Small – pocket-sized. A little rope loop on one corner for on-the-go memory-making. That little camera saw me through 3 years of high school, a year living abroad in Germany, and barely survived my first year at university. This was back when we …
Six Visual Storytelling Elements to Say Less and Show More in Your Learning Experiences Read More »
What you will learn A career in sales can feel like one chaotic, high-pressure situation after another. As a leader, you can freeze, or you can lead confidently through short-term turmoil and set your team up for long-term success. The key to the second path looks like this: Self-Awareness: It starts with you. You need …
Leading in High-Pressure Situations: Reflections from our live conversation Read More »
Are you familiar with the term living company? Neither was I until I started working at one. Before joining Curious Lion, I was part of a workforce that bonded over the shared trauma of working at a job that left you feeling unappreciated, underpaid and overworked. These conditions are seen as ‘normal’ – all part …
Challenging Assumptions: 5 Flipped Perspectives on Poor Work Cultures Read More »
We once had a client with a fear-based culture. People at the company were used to having their teeth kicked in. So they’d often take that out on our team. Here’s what happened: In this fear-based culture, senior leadership were frantic. Always busy. Always rushed. Always too important for patience. As a result, everyone at …
Hi, my name is Lu-ise Hattingh… and I’m a workaholic. At least, that’s who I thought I was, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Picture this. It’s the June school holidays in Cape Town, South Africa, 1998 (that’s the Winter holidays for us in the Southern Hemisphere). Eight-year-old Lu-ise has been up since 6 am, …
Workaholics, Holidays, and Finding Joy in the Waves of Work Read More »
TL;DR: Stress and tragic events can mess with our brains and impair our ability to learn. Being in a constant state of stress makes it hard to concentrate, remember things, and stay motivated. As learning experience designers, we need to create a supportive learning environment which provides psychological safety, sets clear and measurable learning goals, …
Too Stressed to Learn? 7 Ways to Create Supportive Learning for Stressed-Out Learners Read More »
My company’s identity and my own were twisted into a toddler’s knot for too long. I had mushed them together so much that I couldn’t tell them apart, like a brown ball of kids putty. Joy, for me, comes from a relentless (sometimes overly) intellectual pursuit of the elusive Truth (with a capital T, yeah, …
Economic Machines, Human Communities, and the Shift into Long-Term Thinking Read More »
In a world of economic and geopolitical confusion, the key to sustained growth lies in strategies that span centuries, not just fiscal quarters. The question that inevitably emerges is how to transform an organization into a ‘Living Company,’ one that perpetually evolves, learns, and thrives. The concept of the ‘Living Company,’ as established by Arie …