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As 2025 comes to a close, it's time to reflect on what we've learned - both professionally and personally. Our last coffee chat of 2025 is all about sharing the insights, skills, and experiences that made a difference in your year. Maybe you finally cracked the code on stakeholder communication, discovered a tool that ... Read more
Time for the Learning Rebels annual Coffee Chat: Why SMART Goals Aren't Smart! Every year at this coffee chat, we talk about how L&D professionals can be better partners, better designers, and stronger advocates for their businesses and learners. For the next few chats, we're flipping the focus. We're concentrating on YOU and helping ... Read more
Get ready for the L&D Resource Swap 2026! This Coffee Chat is where your desire to learn something new meets the collective wisdom of the Learning Rebels community. Here, everyone will have a chance to share a story, book, or tool and how it opened a new window of opportunity for their professional development. ... Read more
Building Your Learning Habit Let's be honest with each other - we're L&D professionals who spend our days designing learning experiences and advocating for development. But when it comes to our own learning? It somehow always ends up at the bottom of the to-do list. It's not that we don't care. We've got the ... Read more
Here's the trap we fall into as L&D professionals: we try to learn everything. New authoring tool? Better learn it. Someone mentions personalized learning? Better research it. AI drops a new feature? Add it to the list. Meanwhile, we're stretched thin across a dozen surface-level skills with no real depth in anything. Are we ... Read more
We talk a lot about increasing L&D's visibility within the business. But what about your own visibility? Your personal brand? For many L&D professionals, this feels uncomfortable. Self-promotional. Maybe even gross. We got into this field to help others, not market ourselves. And there's this question: should personal branding even be a priority? The ... Read more
Building and Nurturing Your Professional Network You've built your personal brand. People know what you stand for. Now comes the part that makes a lot of us cringe: actually connecting with people. Let's be honest—networking often feels transactional. Awkward. Like you're using people to get ahead. You exchange LinkedIn connections and then... nothing. You've got ... Read more
See It Differently, Solve It Better: Creative Problem Solving Same problem. Same team. Same stakeholder who wants "just a quick course." And somehow, you're expected to come up with something different than what you did last time. Sound familiar? Here's the thing. It's not that L&D professionals lack creativity. It's that we get locked ... Read more
When Training Isn't the Answer The 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? You could say yes. You probably have before. But somewhere between building ... Read more
When Your Subject Matter Expert Drives You BANANAS They know everything about their topic. Everything. And they want to put it all in your course. Working 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 ... Read more
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Recognizing Informal Learning Nobody learned how to do their job from a course alone. Think 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 ... Read more
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. That's not feedback. That's the appearance of feedback. Real feedback, the kind that actually shifts behavior and helps people grow, doesn't happen by ... Read more
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