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Your Onboarding Has a Single Point of Failure: It’s You!
It's Monday morning. Your new hire arrives for their first day, eager and ready to start. There's just one problem: the person who was supposed to train them called in...
The Best L&D Resources Come from People Who Use Them
Peer Recommendations Beat Guru Content Any day! I had Atomic Habits on my reading list for probably two years. You know how it goes - you see it mentioned everywhere,...
Why SMART Goals Don’t Work
Why Most Goal-Setting Approaches Fail Updated January 2026 with current statistics and research Here we are. New year, new anxiety about goal-setting. January brings this predictable pressure to transform ourselves,...
2025: The Year 826 People Decided They Weren’t Alone
2,582 registrations. 826 unique Chatters. 28 Coffee Chats. Here's what happened when we built a community for practical, no-BS learning and development conversations in 2025. Building a community is messy....
Moving from Onboarding to “Warm Welcomes”
Download your "Warm Welcome and Parting" Framework Here! Quick heads up: I originally wrote this back in 2023, but the onboarding gap hasn't gotten any smaller - so I've updated...
The Scrappy Instructional Designer’s Workflow Guide
You know those fancy case studies where someone built a beautiful, award-winning training program with unlimited budget and six months of development time? Well, this isn't that story. Here's what...
Overcoming the ‘Yeah, Buts’: How to Move from Resistance to Action
Originally published November 3, 2016. Updated October 2025 with current examples and actionable strategies for L&D professionals. In the learning and development world, there's a phrase that comes up constantly:...
5 Cognitive Biases Sabotaging Your Learning Programs
Download Your Bias Checker Here! I'm about to share a secret that's not so secret. We're all walking around with invisible blinders on, making decisions about training based on gut...
Ditch Engagement! Create Learning People Can’t Ignore
Create More Compelling Learning: Download the Learning Rebels "5-Element Story Framework" We've got an engagement problem in L&D, and it's not what you think. It's not that learners are distracted...
What Hemingway Teaches Us About Instructional Writing
Let’s face it - most people aren’t reading your training materials for fun. They’re skimming through a workbook between meetings, clicking through eLearning before their next deadline, or half-watching a...
