by Margie Meacham | Mar 17, 2017 | Events, Past Events
According to Malcolm Gladwell, it takes 10,000 hours of concentrated practice to become an expert in any field or skill. In the past, many companies were able to develop new leaders from within, using this principle to provide several carefully crafted years of field...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 10, 2016 | Events, Past Events
Your brain dedicates about 25% of its entire processing power to vision, which probably explains why we understand images 60,000 times faster than words or numbers. So why are we filling our training materials with so much text when we can tell the story better in...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 8, 2016 | Events, Past Events
If you have kept abreast of the literature in the past few years, it is fairly common knowledge that there are not enough people to fill the gaps left by the Baby Boomers as they exit the workforce. While most research and articles which address this looming crisis...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 6, 2016 | Events, Past Events
I just got back from ATD’s premiere event, the International Conference and Expo (ICE), where I spoke about the future of learning and artificial intelligence. I was pleased to see that my topic was compelling enough to attract over 100 folks on the morning after a...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 5, 2016 | Events, Past Events
The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve demonstrates how quickly we forget new information. Within the first 10 minutes, your learner has already forgotten a significant amount of the information that you worked hard to convey in your online course. Within 24 hours, most...
by Margie Meacham | Oct 28, 2016 | Events, LearningToGo Blog, Past Events
In previous posts I wrote about my role as cohost of the Reflection Center at The Learning and Development Conference, TLDC. The role of reflection in learning is well-established and dates back at least to educator/philosopher John Dewey, who said “We do not learn...
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