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Brain Matters Newsletter - Vol. 2, No. 19 - June 23, 2016
Is the Learning Tech Industry Failing Us or Are We Failing Ourselves?

Lately things seem to be coming to me in bunches - ideas that appear at first to be distinctly different subjects are starting to merge inside my brain. The last time this happened I tried to make sense of machine learning, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. This week I'm thinking about the history and future of learning technologies. Read more...
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Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as the #1 Leadership Thinker of our time. This author, speaker, thought leader and Brain Matters keynote speaker recently wrote an article for Talent Management magazine called "6 Engaging Questions to Ask." The idea is that if you consciously focus on a behavior change every day you will achieve a change in a dramatically short period of time.
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The Secret to Better Sleep
Neuroscience has demonstrated that the brain needs sleep to move information from short to long term memory and integrate those memories with existing ones. In this infographic you'll learn about sleep and how to get more of it. You might want to share this with your learners or just follow some of the advice yourself.

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What's on Margie's Bookshelf
 The Courage Within Us: Profiles In Disruption, 7 Essential Character Traits For Today's Crazy World 
by Bill Jensen

Why I like it
This Brain Matters 2015 speaker interviewed 100 great disruptive heroes: CEOs, inventors and scientists, entrepreneurs and freedom fighters, firefighters and doctors, geeks and a couple of freaks ... masters of disruptive innovation and change. His research uncovers the new "rules of the game" for creating disruptive change that works. Inspiring and exciting role models for every sort of change agent.

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Upcoming Events
 
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.  
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Essentials of Brain-Based Learning

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.

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