In today's tech-crazy world, most of us are more comfortable taking notes on an electronic device than jotting something down by hand, even if our typing skills leave something to be desired. I am very lucky that my mom insisted that I take a typing class, "as a backup." This turned out to be the greatest career advice I ever received. My ability to "keyboard," as we call it today, has made me much more productive and efficient in every single job I have held since High School.
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When I first encountered the
Learning to Learn course on
Coursera, I had no idea that it would become a global sensation and the most popular
MOOC ever offered. I just knew that brain plasticity teaches us that we really can change the way our brains work, so I was drawn to Dr. Barbara Oakley's masterpiece.
Now I'm adding her wonderful book that started it all,
A Mind for Numbers. In this book, Barbara tells her own story of struggle with math in school and how she overcame it by discovering learning techniques. I have a lot in common in Barb (except that I don't have a wildly successful MOOC just yet) so I really enjoyed this book and I think you will too. You might also want to revisit her
interview on our podcast series.
If you've been following the news about the expanding skills gap in leadership today, you know that we are facing a crisis as baby boomers leave the workforce and newer leaders try to fill their roles. Working with my colleague and friend Dr. Nanette Miner, we've written an ebook to teach you a brain-based model for developing future leaders using neuroscience.
The LEADS model shows you how to accelerate the leadership development process and close the widening gap in your organization by honing the skills that are most needed for future leaders in the 21st century. This ebook is available as a
free download to all subscribers.
I will be in sunny southern California on July 19th to deliver my workshop,
Using Neuroscience to Enhance your Instructional Design, in partnership with the San Diego Chapter of the Association for Talent Development (ATD).
Do you feel like no matter what method, model or theory you use, it just doesn't do your design justice? If so, then you might consider creating training based on what neuroscientists know about the brain. This one-day workshop on how to use neuroscience to enhance your instructional design.
If you could understand what was happening in the brains of your target audience, would you be a more effective trainer, designer, consultant, or leader?
Thanks to recent advances in neuroscience, learning and talent development professionals now have an opportunity to alter their approaches to change management, leadership development, training, and instructional design.
Learn how the brain receives, encodes, and retrieves information to construct knowledge, and use these insights to improve your learning programs.
Visit the ATD site for full details.
