Day: August 15, 2023

Why Manager Development Is Essential For Organizational Growth Managers are those who keep an organization on its feet. Their performance is essential to building a solid, prosperous company with a promising future. They’re frequently a source of advice for employees, supporting them during the workday and helping them improve their careers. Therefore, management training is…

Psycho, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic films, didn’t come together very easily. Hitchcock’s studio, Paramount Pictures, didn’t like anything about the film and denied him a proper budget. So the director went solo and funded the film through his television company Shamley Productions. The budget was tight — less than $1,000,000. Costs were firmly controlled. Hence…

Here’s a phrase you might be familiar with: “Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” There is some truth to that. We all take inspiration from others. Sometimes the best way to do that is by using another person’s work as a sort of stencil or blueprint to follow.  For web developers, there is a simple…

In the previous article, I used ChatGPT to create the foundation for a scenario based course that I will create in the All-New Adobe Captivate. For this second part, I’m going to develop that initial content into the structure for our interactive scenario.  Generally speaking, branched scenarios can rapidly become complex enough that you will…

Borrowing From Marketing’s Use Of Personas In today’s fast-paced business world, the concept of learner personas, borrowed from marketing’s consumer personas, has found a pivotal place in the creation of effective learning solutions. My years of marketing at P&G and PepsiCo left a lasting impression about the importance of a thorough understanding of the core…

Beginnings can feel a little rocky. The mix of excitement, anticipation, and sense of potential can make that first step seem both extremely important and wildly risky. ‘What if it all goes wrong?’ sits right next to ‘What if it all goes right?’ For our beginning, we’re going to start in the same place we…

We lived in one world before August 6, 1945, and have lived in another ever since. Nobody understood this more clearly than Albert Einstein, who had advocated for the research that culminated in that day. “A letter from Dr. Einstein in 1939 informed President Roosevelt that the Germans were engaged in the development of an…

Learning and Development (L&D) is in the middle of an exciting change. The nature of work is shifting, and as a result, the nature of learning is undergoing its own transformation. According to Deloitte’s most recent Global Human Capital Report, skills are becoming more important than job descriptions; workplaces are becoming increasingly more skills-based. Because…