Brain Matters Newsletter - Vol. 2, No. 24 - September 2, 2016 
New Podcast: Dr. Jane Bozarth

Podcast_ Dr. Jane Bozarth 

Dr. Jane Bozarth holds an M.Ed. in Training & Development/Technology in Training and a doctorate in Adult Education. In addition to writing several books on learning best practices, she served as a member of "Training Magazine's book review team for 10 years and now writes a monthly column, "Nuts and Bolts" for the eLearning Guild's online "Learning Solutions Magazine". 

Featured Infographic 
Defining Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning is one of those buzzwords that gets trotted out at nearly every professional learning conference, but it is hard to define and even harder to accomplish, especially when you try to provide "personalized" learning at scale. While this handy little infographic from Edmentum won't give you all the answers, it has an extensive list of references to tell you where to start and a very lively, engaging and deceptively simple visual presentation of the key components of personalized learning.

Nice job on this one! Keep it as an example of how few words you actually need to make your point. Remember - your brain thinks best in pictures, which is why infographics are so powerful.

Book_ Triggers - Marshall Goldsmith

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What's on Margie's Bookshelf
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be 
by Marshall Goldsmith

Why I like it
Brain Matters 2015 speaker and one of the most influential thinkers of our age, Marshall Goldsmith tells you how to achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for yourself, your family and your teams using triggers to program your brain for success. Read more...

Featured Upcoming Event
 
 
Register here!

In order to build a smarter organization you need to start with smarter brains. The pace of change today demands that your team become nimble, ready to respond to new threats and capitalize on new opportunities with utmost speed and mental agility. However, the human brain evolved over centuries to keep us alive, so it is still responding to our current work environment as though we are hunting for food - and trying to avoid being hunted - on a daily basis. Within this framework we can train the brain to learn new skills, process information in new ways and develop a mindset that is open to new possibilities. We have only recently begun to understand the inner workings of the brain, thanks to neuroscience. Sadly, most of what is written on the subject is either too theoretical to be practical or so over-hyped as to be meaningless.

In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage the survival imperative to boost employee engagement, enhance performance and accelerate learning by speaking to the brain in its own language. You will come away with specific actions you can take right away to make your organization "smarter" - in ways that will get you ready for the challenges ahead. The tools and templates provided in the workshop will give you a head start to mapping out the transformation of your team into a smarter, continuously learning organization, one brain at a time.



The Neuroscience of Infographics - ATD Houston Chapter (Sept 29, 2016)


Your brain processes information in pictures, so why not deliver learning content in graphic form? Infographics are all the rage in social media because they convey a lot of information quickly and help the audience recognize patterns, connections and themes much more quickly than would be possible with text and/or audio.
More Upcoming Events

Nov 3-17, 2016
Essentials of Brain-Based Learning Now Qualifies for CEUs
 
 
Upcoming Event_ Essentials of Brain-Based Learning _Nov 3-17_ 2016_ If you haven't taken my online course on Brain-Based Learning, sponsored by ATD, you have one more great reason to sign up for our last class of 2016, taking place online November 3-17. In this class.

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.