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“Don’t Try to Change Who People Are. Synchronize How They Think Together.”

In Good Team, Bad Team, authors Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller argue that team conflicts often stem from mismatched thinking preferences, rather than personality flaws. Their FourSight framework shows how clarifying, ideating, developing, and implementing in sequence can turn friction into collaboration.

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“Companies Deploying AI Have a Powerful Role in Shaping the Kind of AI That Gets Developed.”

If you’ve been waiting for someone to put AI’s utility, promises, and threats into perspective, thank Princeton academics Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, authors of AI Snake Oil. This year’s Business Impact Award winners equate AI to the snake oil that hucksters once touted to suckers as a cure-all.

AI-Powered Learning and the Need for Human Connection

The rise of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and technological breakthroughs in Adaptive Learning promise to maximize learning outcomes at lower costs and time investment. What place do L&D professionals occupy in this evolving landscape?

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INTERVIEWS

“Motivation Alone Doesn’t Automatically Lead To Successful Learning.”

This 13 min. read saves you up to 7 hours

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“Motivation Alone Doesn’t Automatically Lead To Successful Learning.”

Psychology professor Daniel Willingham shares research-based insights on maximizing learning outcomes for students and lifelong learners.

“You Have to Deliver Learning with Minimal Friction.”

Nelson Sivalingam, author of Learning at Speed, outlines the new AI-powered and adaptive L&D world, where learning professionals evolve from course creators to skill-builders and become valuable assets to employees and the business.

“Our Brains Simply Aren’t Designed to Absorb Massive Portions of Complex Information in One Sitting.”

Jana Eicher, EdContent Lead at getAbstract, explains what microlearning is and isn’t – and how getAbstract decided to move into the microlearning space.

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Remove the Top 5 Engagement Blockers in Corporate Learning

In most cases, the problems are homemade.

AI LEARNING

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Innovations in AI Learning: Meeting Learners at Their Point of Need

Envision a transformative future.

Here are the top 3 rules for learning content curation in organizational learning.

Bridging the Gap: Microlearning, Deep Learning and the Battle for Attention

Microlearning drives modern workplace learning, but at what cost?

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HOW-TO-GUIDES >

How to make the hours fly by like minutes and work feel like play.

Both companies and people can have notable second acts.

The labor markets are empty, and many companies are losing highly qualified aging staff who find retiring more attractive than the ideas of the new Group CEO. However, HR can retain them if they know…

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READING LISTS >

Strength training for clarity, resilience and problem-solving.

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LONGREADS >

The Great Reset and the Future of Downtown

Trends accelerated by the pandemic and wider adoption of AI mean all bets about the future of big cities are off.

Loneliness is an issue that’s too costly to ignore.

Poor and inflexible customer service harms us. It also harms the companies that spend millions implementing this type of limbo.

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NEW INTERVIEWS

In Conversation with Experts and Professionals

“Teams Who Are Disrupted by Neurodivergence Only Stand to Benefit.”

One in five people are neurodivergent. Neurodiversity expert Maureen Dunne calls neurodivergence an “untapped resource” for many companies. In this interview, she explains why neurodivergent people make a company future-proof and what a corporate culture that fosters neurodiversity looks like.

“Deploying AI without Knowing What the Output Is Doing in Real-Time Is a Recipe for Disaster”

Boards do not have to reinvent good AI governance. However, if they neglect the issue, they risk destroying the necessary success factor of any product or service: trust. AI expert Dominique Shelton Leipzig explains what needs to be taken into account.