Learning Culture

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 […]

“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,

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

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

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.