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You Have the Power, Don’t Give it Away

January 4, 2019 By Shannon Tipton Leave a Comment

You have the Power

What is power?  Looking at the standard definition we see this: “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events".  However, the word, "power" often triggers negative emotions of a person or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Change, Motivation, Status Quo Tagged With: #letsdothis, empowerment, Negativity Diet, Power

The Lonely Training Needs Assessment

November 9, 2018 By Shannon Tipton 11 Comments

Training needs assessment

What is it about a training needs assessment that makes learning professionals panic?  (Jump to the bottom of this post to enter to win this month's book giveaway). I've written many times, on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and on this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Methodology, Status Quo, Tips Tagged With: Beth McGoldrick, questioning, Training Analysis, Training Needs Assessment, training questions

If Your Training Doesn’t Stick, You Need Microlearning

June 2, 2018 By Shannon Tipton 14 Comments

You need microlearning

It's a story old as time... There is a need to roll out companywide sensitivity training, food safety training, or sexual harassment training, everyone must participate and it must stick. Being the good L&D person you are, you put together a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Design, microlearning, Status Quo Tagged With: Feedback loops, Learning Design, Learning Reinforcement, Make it stick, Training Design

Why Training has a Bad Name (and how we can change it)

April 20, 2016 By Shannon Tipton 6 Comments

You've just been informed that you've been signed up for "training". What is your immediate thought? Oh, crap. There goes my day. Maybe this time I'll learn something. Maybe the training experience won't be so bad. Yay! I always … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Change, Motivation, Status Quo, Tips Tagged With: ATD, empowerment, Evolve, John Medina, Learning Culture, perception, Problem solving, Silo

5 Reasons I’m Geeky about Learning Design!

March 29, 2016 By Shannon Tipton Leave a Comment

My name is Shannon and I am geeky about Learning Design.    There I said it. Not only is L&D my chosen field, but it's my passion.  It's a disease. I look at websites and I'm either wow'd by the user experience or I'm curious about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Change, Learning Design, Motivation, Status Quo, Tips Tagged With: #ATD2016, ASTD, ATD, Collaboration, Connectivity, Geek, hearts and minds, Positive Deviance

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