Training & development learning well January blog post round up

The first month of the new year is about to slip by.  Sit up, take notice & look back before looking forward.  If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply usher yourself down to the well & click as you wish. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into […]

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Freedom for creativity? Freedom from creativity? Is this a playground or a jail?

Freedom?  Restrictions? Limitations?  Guidelines? Safety?  Security?  Sanctions?  Sanctimonious? The signs surrounding the playground that swam by me as I jogged my way around Washington Square in New York City a while back got me thinking. Do we need rules to set us free? Is this a safe space within a jungle?  Or is it a […]

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Fresh perspective = creativity + words that dance

What if words could dance? What if content could sing? What if training & development could taste? A whole lot more creativity, that’s what. Here’s what can happen when you bust out & think out loud, out of the proverbial box…. Creativity.  Never gonna give you up.  It’s a must.  A ‘gotta have’.  A go […]

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How about a bedtime story a million miles away?

Rising up and gracefully meeting the challenges that today’s ever increasingly fast paced world presents can’t be done with the thinking of yesteryear. Changing perspective means breaking out of the bonds that tie our brains down. Encumbered with false assumptions (we’ve gotta do it this way, any other way won’t work, we tried before, it […]

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And the winners of ‘Eureka’ are …. (insert drum roll here)

I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative.  It caught my eye because the title  assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra.  Creativity is in our DNA – some of us just have to dig deeper for it if we’ve […]

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29 ways to stay creative when you’re training (part 3 of 3) plus a contest

Note: this post contains a chance to win a free song.  Keep reading for how to enter… I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative.  I really like the title because it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra.  Creativity […]

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29 ways to stay creative … when you’re training (part 2 of 3)

I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative.  I really like the title because it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra.  Creativity is in our DNA – some of us just have to dig deeper for it if we’ve […]

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29 ways to stay creative … when you’re training (part 1 of 3)

I came across this great video from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative.  The title caught my eye – particularly the word stay as it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which I firmly believe. You can view the video below.  I’ve added to each point to emphasize how you […]

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Jessica Fraser, co-founder, Mobile Movement, on innovation.

I recently co-hosted AIESEC’s Youth to Business Forum where 500 delegates came from 110 countries to engage, inspire and take action on three tracks: innovation, corporate responsibility and leadership. My last two posts talked about wise words from AIESEC speakers Chris Weeks, Director for Humanitarian Affairs, DHL and what he said about corporate responsibility and […]

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Learning Perspective – Paper vrs Rock

Learning perspective. In my dictionary that’s what we’re all about as training and development specialists. In my dictionary that means creating a culture in both our training and development content and delivery that supports: …taking a second look …finding a new outlook …re-examining perspectives, even (especially) those perspectives we’ve held for a lifetime. ‘nuf said. […]

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