• Wake Up the Room: Energizers That Actually Work

    Wake Up the Room: Energizers That Actually Work   You're forty-five minutes into your session. The energy that was there at the start has quietly left the building. In person, people are checking their phones. Virtually, the cameras are off and the chat is a ghost town. Sound familiar? Every facilitator hits that wall. The ... Read more

  • What We’re Actually Reading: L&D Picks for Summer

    Summer time at the beach with a great reading list! Summer is the perfect time to step back from the day-to-day and feed the brain with something that isn't a project deadline. Whether you've got a stack of books you've been meaning to get to, a podcast you can't stop recommending, or a blog that ... Read more

  • L&D Mythbusters: Training Assumptions We Need to Retire

    Some learning myths have been repeated so many times they've started to feel like facts. They are not. Every field has its sacred cows. The assumptions that get passed down, rarely questioned, and then shape how we design, deliver, and defend our work. L&D is no exception. From beliefs about how adults learn, to assumptions ... Read more

  • The Transfer Problem: Why Learning Stops at the Classroom Door

    People leave training feeling good. Then they go back to their desks and nothing changes. It happens in classrooms, in virtual sessions, in eLearning modules that took months to build. Learners complete the program, pass the assessment, and return to doing things exactly the way they did before. The good news is that learning transfer ... Read more

  • AI Didn’t Kill L&D, but it Changed How We Work

    The robots didn't take your job. But they did rearrange it. The conversation about AI in L&D has moved past "is this real?" and into something more practical and more personal. The tools are here, people are using them, and the day-to-day work of designing, developing, and delivering learning looks different than it did two ... Read more

  • Confessions of an L&D Professional

    Forgive me, I have a confession! I have pretended the LMS was down to buy myself another day on a deadline. I have copy-pasted a learning objective from a course I built three years ago and called it "updated content." I have told someone a report wasn't available because running it requires 35 clicks and ... Read more

  • Show Us Your Shortcuts: Design Hacks for Canva, Camtasia & Beyond

    Every experienced L&D professional has a trick up their sleeve. This is the session where we spill all the tea. Design work takes time, and to be honest, it's probably the place where we spend the most time. Tweaking something until we get it "just right." The stars start to align the moment you find ... Read more

  • When Learners Don’t Show Up: Handling Disengagement

    Empty seats are just the visible problem. The real question is what's happening underneath them. Whether it's a virtual session where half the room has their camera off and one eye on their email, a self-paced course that nobody finishes, or a classroom where people are physically present but clearly somewhere else, disengagement is one ... Read more