March 1, 2021
Listening to your existing customers may stop you from learning why the rest of the population is not buying your product/service
February 28, 2021
What did you learn this week? That was Estelle Metayer who goes by the twitter handle @Competia. She was hosting a Clubhouse room that had music composer Philip Sheppard - on twitter as @PhilipSheppard (see his website to learn more) and me as the moderators. That question sparked off a storm of ideas in the room.
February 25, 2021
If the coach is an expert in the same area you wish to get stronger in, you start walking on the same path as the coach did. Organizations make this mistake ever so often when they get someone who has “been there, done that” as the coach.
February 24, 2021
Practicing the new skill regularly helps. Doing 5 math problems every day for four days is better than doing 20 of them on one day.
February 23, 2021
Focus on the big three areas for 2021: 1. Context shapes content strategy; 2. Video, visuals, voice and vernacular; 3. Market the learning experience.
2021 is the year organizations must wake up to the reality that the learner is very different from what they assume about the learner.
February 23, 2021
Learning needs are subjects I studied in school but have never directly used to earn a living. Earning needs refer to every credential that you post on LinkedIn. These are what an employer values in you. Yearning needs are those that we wish to build that fall somewhere in between learning and earning
February 22, 2021
Proximity is an important way in which humans decide to trust someone. It forms the basis of many critical roles in every sector where trust forms the first step of the equation and sometimes the final step. When some of these experiences disappear or get modified, it impacts the most fundamental value of what makes us human.
February 15, 2021
Have a panel of advisors To lead in a crisis, Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe said that managers must give people permission to stop doing projects not deemed essential for the moment, while also changing how work is done. Adobe has made efforts to not host meetings before 9 a.m., […]
February 8, 2021
Putting your money where your cloud is This week the big news was that Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon’s Chief Executive and devote more time to his climate-change project as Executive Chairman. His successor is Andy Jassy who built Amazon’s cloud computing division – Amazon Web Services. Just to put […]