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Training Trends, Learning Outcomes, and Setting More Productive Goals
When we look at trends and predictions for workplace learning and performance (training) in pieces such as Training Industry, Inc. CEO and Founder Doug Harward’s recent article posted on...
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Workplace Learning & Leadership: It’s a Book!
They may not be as heart-warming and engaging as the words “it’s a girl” or “it’s a boy” are. And we’re certainly not giving out cigars. But the phrase “it’s (finally) a book” is tremendously...
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Trainers as Leaders: Thoughts, Words, Actions, and Congruence
“Congruence,” the contributors to Wikipedia remind us, “is the state achieved by coming together, the state of agreement,” and that proved to be a tremendously fruitful theme to explore at the initial...
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Trainers as Leaders: Spontaneity, Learning, and Leadership
A colleague once suggested that trainer-teacher-learners need to be careful that they don’t lose control of their learning environments and “let the inmates run the asylum.” Co-facilitating the second...
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ALA Annual Conference 2012: Learning, Leading, Engaging, and Transforming
If you were in the right room but weren’t paying attention yesterday at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference here in Anaheim, you easily could have missed one of the best examples...
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ALA Annual Conference 2012: When Learners Create Learning Objects
Put a group of trainer-teacher-learners into a room, and you’ll quickly see barriers dissolve and information flow, as happened yesterday during an ALA Learning Round Table “Nuts and Bolts of Staff...
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Leading and Participating Effectively (Pt. 1 of 2): Eli Mina on 101 Boardroom...
Reading Eli Mina’s 101 Boardroom Problems [and How to Solve Them] leaves us with the impression that he has seen it all. Or, if he hasn’t, that he has the wonderful breadth and depth of experience to...
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Leading and Participating Effectively (Pt. 2 of 2): Mark Samuel on Making...
We could easily make the mistake of thinking that Mark Samuel’s thoughtful and thought-provoking book Making Yourself Indispensable is all about us. But we don’t, as trainer-teacher-learners who need...
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New Librarianship MOOC: Contributing to Our Communities Through Leadership...
Connections between librarianship, training-teaching-learning, innovation, and leadership continue to become increasingly obvious as we move further into R. David Lankes’s “New Librarianship Master...
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ALA Annual Conference 2014: Ernie DiMattia and Learning Moments That Change...
Conference attendance, whether onsite or online, can be transformative. The planned and unplanned encounters with colleagues, the vendors with whom we work, the authors we adore (or are going to adore...
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Adapting to Change, Loss, and Possibilities: The Caffè Is Open, the Learning...
I engaged in what I’m going to call a “not-so-guilty pleasure” this morning: I joined approximately 30 colleagues for coffee and conversation in an intimate, wonderfully welcoming caffè while...
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Adapting to Change, Loss, and Possibilities: Voice, Collaboration, Virtual...
There’s a heartbreakingly beautiful story to be told here—the story of how online interactions involving music, collaboration, the human voice, and activism are creating light and fostering positive...
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Promoting Intergenerational Leadership With Natalie Miller (Part 1 of 2)
This is the first part of a two-part interview conducted with Natalie Miller, a systems engineer with Booz Allen Hamilton, active member of the ShapingEDU community, and a University of Maryland...
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Promoting Intergenerational Leadership With Natalie Miller (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part of a two-part interview conducted with Natalie Miller, a systems engineer with Booz Allen Hamilton, active member of the ShapingEDU community, and a University of Maryland...
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