by Margie Meacham | Jan 13, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog
Lately I’ve been catching myself saying things that make me sound like an old woman: “She looks way too young to be tending bar.” “He’s so immature. Were we like that at his age?” “When are these kids going to grow up and leave the house?” I recently was heartened to...
by Margie Meacham | Jan 11, 2015 | Events, Past Events
Learning Solutions 2016, March 14, Orlando, Florida Designing training without an understanding of how the brain works is a lot like trying to get somewhere without a map. Even if you eventually arrive at your destination, you won’t know how you got there so that you...
by Margie Meacham | Oct 16, 2014 | LearningToGo Blog
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin In the area of adult learning, Ben Franklin turns out to be quite prescient. If you think that emotions have no place in training or should be relegated to “soft” skills,...
by Margie Meacham | Sep 10, 2014 | LearningToGo Blog
I sometimes like to think of the training profession as going through an evolution similar to the path taken by the medical science more than 300 years ago. Before we knew about microbes and viruses, we knew that certain diseases affected the human body. Through trial...
by Margie Meacham | Aug 12, 2014 | LearningToGo Blog
We’ve said before that the brain is a survival machine, which evolved specifically to keep us alive. You might think that because the human brain is considered to be the most complex organ, it is superior in all respects to those of other animals. However, because...
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