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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
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
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
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
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