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On schedule: training at your fingertips, accessible whenever

Work from home/coffeeshop Let’s talk more about working remotely and the digital nomad trend. Even before the outbreak of Covid-19, globe-trotting white-collar Millennials were popularizing the work-from-anywhere lifestyle. But today, three years on from the pandemic-imposed shift to remote, and fitting professional duties around life has picked up momentum for every generation. Not only are …

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Action learning: prioritize applicability for completion rate wins

Is action learning for everyone? Well, here’s a Monday morning question for you: Would knowing the science behind psychological heuristics bump up improvement in your coworker interactions? How about a study group on andragogy – Malcolm Knowles’ model of adult learning? Or a deep dive into John Flavell’s Metacognition (thinking about thinking) theory? Would such …

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Make it quick: why micro-learning is an engagement game-changer

“I feel the need… the need for speed!” In 1986, Tom Cruise’s swaggering fighter jet pilot spoke those lines in ‘Top Gun’. But beyond becoming a memorable quip, what pre-internet audiences didn’t realize then was those lines would come to prophesy our modern era. In the context of the agile workplace, we talk about sprints. …

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Corporate Edutainment: e-learning with high production value

If you’ve been reading our posts for a while, you’ll know Talent Hacks takes a maximalist approach to corporate edutainment. Our aim is to go big.  (What is edutainment? Short answer: it’s learning that educates and entertains, typically in the form of multimedia-enriched, gamified lessons, popularized in schools, but more and more relevant in terms …

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Drip-fed edutainment: managing the cognitive load in corporate e-learning

From breakthrough digestive meds to Hail Mary celery juice, there’s a growing concern about over-consumption. And not just when it comes to food. Information overload is off the charts, thanks to a 24/7 firehose of social media and news, exponentially multiplying online data, and search options that today include artificial intelligence bots like ChatGPT. This …

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Learning & Development in the new era of ‘edutainment’

So… as a learning and development provider, were we nuts to have poured a year’s worth of scripting, shooting, editing and gamifying into a Smart Course teaching you to manage your workplace interactions? Nuts, as in ‘unconventional’? Guilty as charged. Nuts, as in misguided? We beg to differ. A workforce that prefers tech-driven learning Consider …

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Tech, lines & rock ’n’ roll: making e-learning an engagement extravaganza

When Deano, our resident psychologist (and lead guitarist) said he was thinking of writing a ‘script’ for our new Smart Course, we shrugged and said ‘sure’. After all, a course needs instructional design, e-learning should be structured, instructors shouldn’t ad-lib (unless, like our team member Taz, they’re also comedians), and so on. Turns out, when …

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Frustration innovation: how we made tech the key to reinvented L&D

Before educational technology… The Smart Course that’s been our 24/7 obsession for over a year, has an origin story. Just like superhero tales, it begins in the depths of defeat. Scratch that… the depths of frustration. If you’ve ever observed a stale, stagnant way of doing things, while feeling helpless to bring about change… well, …

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The multi-generational minefield

…(and what managers can do about it). The thing about multi-generational conflict in the workplace is… it’s not a new phenomenon. We’ve been watching this storm build across organizations for years. Up till fairly recently, clashes of values and expectations by coworkers on either end of the age divide were resolved by younger folks adopting …

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