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SUMMARY:What To Do When Training Isn't the Answer
DESCRIPTION:When Training Isn’t the Answer\nThe request lands in your inbox on a Tuesday. Sales numbers are down\, customer complaints are up\, and leadership has diagnosed the problem: the team needs training. Can you have something ready by the end of the month? \nYou could say yes. You probably have before. But somewhere between building the course and watching nothing change\, a nagging thought creeps in. What if training was never actually the solution? \nL&D professionals are not training vending machines. Yet that’s exactly how many organizations treat the function. A problem surfaces\, someone pushes a button\, and out pops a course. The most effective L&D professionals know that sometimes the right answer is proposing a solution that doesn’t start with training. Recommending coaching\, job aids\, process improvements\, or performance support instead could be the smarter (and more productive) way to go.  \nThe hardest part? Saying that out loud to a stakeholder who already has their mind made up. \n  \nWhat We Will Discuss \n\nHow to recognize when a performance problem isn’t a training problem\nThe real cost of saying yes when the answer should be “let’s look at this differently.”\nHow to redirect a stakeholder who has already decided they need a course\n\n  \nCome Ready to Contribute \nBring a real situation. One where you built the course and nothing changed\, or one where you pushed back and it paid off. Better yet\, bring your alternative solutions. The time you solved a process problem instead of building a course. The job aid that fixed in one page what a three-module eLearning couldn’t. The coaching conversation that actually moved the needle. The messier the story\, the better the conversation. \n  \n  \n  \nCan’t Make It In Person? No Worries\, We’ve Got Your Back! Register And Receive The Following:\n Access to the Learning Rebels resource page with all the extra goodies \n Copy of the video recording \n Copy of the chatbox transcription \n Copy of the full session transcript & summary \n Additional resources such as books\, articles\, and handouts
URL:https://www.learningrebels.com/event/what-to-do-when-training-isnt-the-answer/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shannon Tipton":MAILTO:shannon@learningrebels-rbyh.wp1.sh
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T110000
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SUMMARY:When Your Subject Matter Expert Drives You BANANAS
DESCRIPTION:When Your Subject Matter Expert Drives You BANANAS\nThey know everything about their topic. Everything. And they want to put it all in your course. \nWorking with subject matter experts is one of those skills nobody really prepares you for in L&D. One day you’re trying to convince a reluctant SME to give you thirty minutes of their time. The next\, you’re in a review meeting where they’ve rewritten your entire script because “that’s not exactly how it works.” Either way\, the project is officially off the rails. \nThe tactics you use to build and preserve your relationship with an SME can mean the difference between elegant content simplicity or your learning initiative crashing into a ball of flames. And yet no two SMEs are alike. Every project brings a different personality\, a different agenda\, and a different set of priorities that have nothing to do with yours. Learning to read the room and adjust accordingly is the real skill nobody talks about. \nThe good news? There are strategies that actually work. And this community has the battle scars to prove it. \nWhat We Will Discuss \n\nThe most common SME barriers and how to address them before they derail your project\nHow to manage the SME who wants to include every single thing they know\nWhat to do when your SME ghosts you\, pushes back hard\, or thinks they know more about learning design than you do\nPractical strategies for setting expectations\, maintaining momentum\, and keeping the relationship intact\n\nCome Ready to Contribute \nBring your SME horror stories and your wins. What’s worked\, what’s backfired\, and what you wish you’d known before your first SME relationship went sideways. The more specific\, the better. \n  \n  \nCan’t Make It In Person? No Worries\, We’ve Got Your Back! Register And Receive The Following:\n Access to the Learning Rebels resource page with all the extra goodies \n Copy of the video recording \n Copy of the chatbox transcription \n Copy of the full session transcript & summary \n Additional resources such as books\, articles\, and handouts
URL:https://www.learningrebels.com/event/when-your-subject-matter-expert-drives-you-bananas/
CATEGORIES:Coffee Chat
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shannon Tipton":MAILTO:shannon@learningrebels-rbyh.wp1.sh
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SUMMARY:Credit Where Credit Is Due: Recognizing Informal Learning
DESCRIPTION:Credit Where Credit Is Due: Recognizing Informal Learning\nNobody learned how to do their job from a course alone. \nThink about it. The workaround a colleague showed you over coffee. The LinkedIn post that reframed how you think about stakeholder relationships. The podcast you listened to on your commute that gave you the exact language you needed for a difficult conversation. That’s all learning\, and none of it showed up in your LMS. \nInformal learning makes up the majority of how people actually develop on the job. And yet most organizations have no system for acknowledging it\, supporting it\, or connecting it to business outcomes. The real challenge for L&D isn’t just recognizing that informal learning exists – it’s figuring out how to surface it\, give it the credit it deserves\, and make a compelling case for its value to the business. \nBecause if you can’t connect it to outcomes\, it stays invisible. \nL&D is often so focused on what can be measured in a completion report that the learning doing the heaviest lifting goes completely unnoticed. That’s a problem worth talking about. \n  \nWhat We Will Discuss \n\nWhat informal learning actually looks like in today’s workplace and why it matters more than ever\nHow to surface and support learning that happens outside of formal programs\nHow to make the case for informal learning to stakeholders who only trust what the LMS tracks\nCreative ways to recognize and reward informal learning without turning it into another program\n\n  \nCome Ready to Contribute \nBring your ideas\, your experiments\, and your frustrations. Have you found a way to recognize informal learning that actually stuck? Or tried something that completely flopped? Either way\, this community wants to hear it. \n  \n  \nCan’t Make It In Person? No Worries\, We’ve Got Your Back! Register And Receive The Following:\n Access to the Learning Rebels resource page with all the extra goodies \n Copy of the video recording \n Copy of the chatbox transcription \n Copy of the full session transcript & summary \n Additional resources such as books\, articles\, and handouts
URL:https://www.learningrebels.com/event/credit-where-credit-is-due-recognizing-informal-learning/
CATEGORIES:Coffee Chat
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260605T110000
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SUMMARY:Building Feedback to Change Behavior
DESCRIPTION:Most feedback in learning programs is an afterthought. A quiz at the end of a module. A “great point!” from the facilitator. A smile sheet that nobody reads after the session closes. \nThat’s not feedback. That’s the appearance of feedback. \nReal feedback\, the kind that actually shifts behavior and helps people grow\, doesn’t happen by accident. It has to be intentionally designed into the learning experience from the start\, not bolted on at the end. And the approach looks different depending on whether you’re standing in a classroom\, facilitating a virtual session\, or building an eLearning module that has to do the heavy lifting without you in the room. \nMost L&D professionals know feedback matters. Fewer have a clear strategy for making it work across all three formats\, and that gap shows up in programs where learners finish without really knowing whether they got it right\, got it wrong\, or why it matters either way. \nWhat We Will Discuss \n\nWhat effective feedback actually looks like when it’s built into the design\nHow feedback strategies differ across classroom\, VILT\, and eLearning environments\nThe difference between feedback that informs and feedback that changes behavior\nCommon feedback mistakes and how to fix them before they become habits\n\nCome Ready to Contribute \nBring your best feedback techniques and your design experiments. How do you build feedback into your programs in a way that actually sticks? This community wants to know. \n  \n  \n  \nCan’t Make It In Person? No Worries\, We’ve Got Your Back! Register And Receive The Following:\n Access to the Learning Rebels resource page with all the extra goodies \n Copy of the video recording \n Copy of the chatbox transcription \n Copy of the full session transcript & summary \n Additional resources such as books\, articles\, and handouts
URL:https://www.learningrebels.com/event/building-feedback-to-change-behavior/
CATEGORIES:Coffee Chat
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shannon Tipton":MAILTO:shannon@learningrebels-rbyh.wp1.sh
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SUMMARY:Wake Up the Room: Energizers That Actually Work
DESCRIPTION:Wake Up the Room: Energizers That Actually Work\n  \nYou’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. \nSound familiar? \nEvery facilitator hits that wall. The question is what you do when you get there. A well-timed energizer isn’t a gimmick. It’s about reaching not only the mind but the heart of your audience. The right activity at the right moment can shift the entire dynamic of a room\, virtual or otherwise. The wrong one can make an already disengaged group feel like they’re being managed. \nThere’s also something worth acknowledging: energizers only work when people feel safe enough to participate. Quiet rooms aren’t always safe rooms. They’re often scared rooms. The best facilitators know the difference and design accordingly. \n  \nWhat We Will Discuss \n\nEnergizer techniques that actually work — for in-person\, VILT\, and hybrid environments\nHow to read the room and choose the right activity at the right moment\nWhat makes an energizer land versus fall flat\nHow to create an environment where people actually want to participate\n\n  \nCome Ready to Contribute \nThis one is all about sharing. Bring your go-to energizer\, your most creative activity\, or the one that bombed spectacularly. We want the full picture — what worked\, what didn’t\, and what you’d never do again. \n  \n  \n  \nCan’t Make It In Person? No Worries\, We’ve Got Your Back! Register And Receive The Following:\n Access to the Learning Rebels resource page with all the extra goodies \n Copy of the video recording \n Copy of the chatbox transcription \n Copy of the full session transcript & summary \n Additional resources such as books\, articles\, and handouts
URL:https://www.learningrebels.com/event/wake-up-the-room-energizers-that-actually-work/
CATEGORIES:Coffee Chat
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