Justin Fox interviews Bob Pozen, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and author for HBR and HBR Blogs, who shares with us his tips and trips for being more productivity in and HBR IdeaCast. The following are the key points discussed: Focus on results, not on time spent. For a long time, and perhaps still… Continue reading Extreme Productivity: Secrets of a Very Busy Man
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Tips to Not Suck as A Presenter
A few months ago, I wrote a post on Tips to Stop Sucking at PowerPoint. But as we all know, you may have the snazziest presentation on the block, but you’re only half-way there. You, yourself, have to bring your A game. In other words, you have to offer the total package. Clive Shepherd shares… Continue reading Tips to Not Suck as A Presenter
I Know What Learners Need
Last Saturday, I was talking with a past colleague and good friend Virginie, an instructional designer working in the field for 10 years now. We talked about some of the struggles we go through in this profession. We tried to pin point what was the one character quality that all instructional designers should have. We both agreed… Continue reading I Know What Learners Need
Enhancing Our Creativity by Tackling Others Challenges
In a recent research report published in the Personality and social psychology bulletin, Polman and Emich demonstrate how when we make decisions for others, we are going to make decisions that are more creative than the ones we make for ourselves. This is just the latest extension of research into construal level theory, an intriguing… Continue reading Enhancing Our Creativity by Tackling Others Challenges
Dressing the Part: A Strategic Skill for Individuals and Organizations
When providing training and information to new and existing employees, ideally, we’ll focus on providing them the requisite tools for optimal performance in their jobs. But how much emphasis is there set on how the employee appearing polished, proficient, and professional? In her article focussing specifically on organizations and dress codes, Sylvia Ann Hewlett describes… Continue reading Dressing the Part: A Strategic Skill for Individuals and Organizations
Which Content Curation Tool is Right for You?
Managing all the content that comes at us can get overwhelming. We can set up systems to tag, categorize, filter, sort, organize and essentially manage content at various levels. And once we’ve sifted through all the content that is sent to us, and we’ve decided what it is that we want to share, how do… Continue reading Which Content Curation Tool is Right for You?
The Components of True Collaboration
Dan Pontefract has a wonderfully clear and thought out model on The Collaboration Cycle. In fact, to summarize it wouldn’t really do it justice. But I will highlight that he bases it on 3 components as illustrated in his diagram below: Adopting the CARE Principle. (Continuous, Authentic, Receptive and Enrich) Appreciating and adapting to Strong… Continue reading The Components of True Collaboration
A Reflection on Eight Years of Moodling
I’ve been more engaged in corporate e-learning as of late and away from the academic side of e-Learning. But recently I have been exploring options for blended learning activities, more specifically a hybrid mix of instructor-led online programs. It got me going back to one of my previous areas of expertise: Moodle. I logged into… Continue reading A Reflection on Eight Years of Moodling
Discover LinkedIn and Discover the Power of your Network
MindTools has written what I consider to be the best summary and short user guide to LinkedIn. Not only does it provides a practical definition of LinkedIn, but also defines useful terms and outlines strategic individual and organizational uses. It also includes an extremely important write up on LinkedIn Netiquette. My personal experience with LinkedIn… Continue reading Discover LinkedIn and Discover the Power of your Network
Online Learning and Development Strategy for Organizational Survival
One of the greatest challenges many of my clients share is convincing their organization’s decision makers and purse holders to invest in Learning and Development, and even more challenging—yes even now in 2011—is the argument for online learning and development. Bob Lee comes up with some pretty convincing arguments and ties them directly to the… Continue reading Online Learning and Development Strategy for Organizational Survival