Editor’s note: There’s a lot of talk about how to use storytelling in business across the business media. This is one of the better articles on storytelling using the recent Budweiser Super Bowl advert as an example.
Editor’s note: Elliott Masie updates his trends blog after a recent meeting with big corporates. The insights are useful, including the role of L&D leaders in discussions on talent.
Editor’s note: An exploration of ‘working out loud’ and how sharing what you do can help foster a learning culture and help build your own skills as an L&D professional.
Editor’s note: Skip to the 35 minute mark of this webinar recording to hear how organisations are using MOOCs.
Editor’s note: Can 10,000 hours of deliberate practice make you an expert? The science questions that assumption.
Editor’s note: I like this quote to a piece debunking the war on talent myth: “Companies that engaged in the war for talent “set up competitive, zero-sum dynamics that make internal learning and knowledge transfer difficult … and create an attitude of arrogance instead of an attitude of wisdom.”
Editor’s note: Microsoft researcher Dana Boyd on how teenagers use the web. If one size does not fit all, then what are the implications for workplace tech?
Editor’s note: Exploration of the brain trainer apps that are becoming increasingly popular. Question is, do they do what they claim they can do?
Editor’s note: This research into what makes us happy in terms of our habits shows the accepting who we are is perceived to be a top habit but it is not the one we practise the most. Useful list if you believe a happy employee is an engaged one.
Editor’s note: Indepth article on big data and the use of data science to help make better predictions and the implications of data science from a business and research standpoint.
Editor’s note: Are we seeing a trend towards single-purpose apps? As this article says: ‘The age of the great “social network” is coming to an end. Consumers are now moving towards services that are much more focused. You don’t go to them to do everything “social”, you go to them to do one thing. The best of these services entice you to do that one thing over and over and over again.’ if that’s the case, what would learning related apps do specifically?
Editor’s note: ‘In order to get more from their employees and contractors, in order to re-engage them, organizations must, simply, give them more. Not as employees, but as human beings.’ A great post on engagement and why organisations need to treat colleagues as humans.
Editor’s note: Dave Kelly looks at how a board game for children introduces coding concepts with any mention of coding or teaching. A good read on how game mechanics can work.
Editor’s note: An interview with Ellen Langer, whose research on mindfulness has greatly influenced thinking across a range of fields, from behavioral economics to positive psychology.
Editor’s note: Science is telling us what we know to be true about how we learn – something John Dewey outlined a century ago. But will data really help personalise the experience? Thanks to @marcoable for sharing.