Archive for 2019
Learning doesn’t have to be “hard”
It is amazing to me how traditional but very out-of-date paradigms get in the way of progress. At Cerebyte, we have been involved with multiple organizations lately where highly successful transformational leadership pilot tests did not lead to full programs because leadership did not believe that the changes they had seen as a result of…
Read MoreFinding Time with the Neuroscience of Transformational Leadership
I enjoyed reading a recent interesting article in the New York Times titled, “Can We Slow Down Time in the Age of TikTok?” This article was inspired by a college art professor’s efforts to have her students slow down enough to see and experience the world, instead of making everything completely utilitarian. The general idea…
Read MoreHow to “retrain” your workforce using self-directed learning
I recently read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Amazon to Spend Big to Retrain Employees.” The article focuses on a commitment Amazon has made to spend $700 million to retrain its people – about $1,200 per year per person. The article sites two reasons for this initiative, 1) Amazon needs to…
Read MoreDoes ‘microlearning’ undermine opportunity for real learning impact?
“Microlearning” has recently become a topic of increased interest. In a nutshell, “microlearning” is breaking learning into very small chunks of information. The theory is that reducing the time requirements of a series of learning events makes the new content easier to learn and fits better within the constraints of constant time pressures. The two…
Read MoreSofia enables mentoring any place, any time
An article in the Wall Street Journal about mentoring programs caught my eye. The article, written by Sue Shellenbarger, appeared in the Q&A section “Work & Family Mailbox” where a reader asked how to find companies that invested in mentoring programs. Ms. Shellenberger offered some sources of companies but that was less interesting to me…
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