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Free L&D webinars for February 2021

Limestone Learning

There are some gems, though, so it’s worth checking out and spending a strategic hour or two learning something new! Employees get to learn and grow, which boosts their morale. PT: Hollywood FX with PowerPoint Make professional, movie quality effects using PowerPoint. Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 8 a.m.–9

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What Can Keep And Hold A Millennial In Your Organization? Learning and Development

Association eLearning

Baby Boomers instilled the tradition of keeping one’s head down, staying with “the Company” for 20+ years, and collecting a gold watch at the end of their career. Everyone wins when your organization creates and supports opportunities for Millennials to perpetually learn and absorb your organization’s culture.

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The Biggest Myths in Learning and Development

Absorb LMS

So what does all this have to do with learning and development? My introduction to using computers for learning stems back 25 years to a course I took in university titled “Computers in Music.” Having worked in the area of learning technology for so long has created certain assumptions.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

Performance Learning Productivity

It really is the best of times and the worst of times for learning professionals. The Only Way is Up The profession’s record has taken somewhat of a beating over the past few years. Two years ago the Corporate Leadership Council’s L&D Team Capabilities Survey reported some stark facts. There is a choice.

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Something all learning pro’s should do

E-Learning Provocateur

Learn a language. By going outside of your comfort zone, you stimulate your brain into new realms. Now YOU are the one on a steep learning curve. Over the years I dabbled by doing a class, listening to tapes, buying an English-German dictionary and reading a few language books. In doing so, you continue to learn.

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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

Performance Learning Productivity

Data provided by the US membership organisation Training Industry suggests annual growth around 6% per year since 2009. ASTD data suggests US companies spent $164billion on employee learning and development in 2012 saying that ‘ despite a continuously changing economic environment, organizations remain committed to training and development’.

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Development Mindsets and 70:20:10

Performance Learning Productivity

At the other end of the continuum are those that believe their success, and the success of others, comes from hard work, learning, and persistence. New Knowledge and Crack Cocaine Gary Marcus is another professor of psychology who has spent years studying human cognitive development. This is an interesting theory, but so what?

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