Employees are your Athletes – unleash their winning performance Did you know that most resistance to change is unconscious and a biological function of the brain to actually burn fewer calories? What we refer to as a habit is a coating the brain constructs around a repeatedly active neural pathway along with help from […]
John Breakey
Fresh Thinking About IT & Change Management
IT organizations have been hardwired from past experience to think in terms of a project paradigm. We prepare, we deploy, we complete, we move on. Agile development and cloud computing are distorting that model as application vendors release new features multiple times per year. Customers once chose their deployment dates but Cloud computing has transferred that control to vendors. […]
Learning Tools on Mobile – Doing It Right
Much of our love of mobile is the ability to access data that we need immediately. We place this data in our short or near-term memory and then discard it. For example, once you arrive at a restaurant its address is no longer required. Conversely, corporate learning demands that we recall skills used on a […]
Digital Transformation – What We Miss
Digital transformation is the latest holy grail of organizational change. Change is not new but unlike past changes, there is a key difference; In the past, projects would automate familiar workflows with some level of process enhancement. Employees affected by those changes had to learn a new system with a minor adjustment to the way […]
5 Reasons Traditional Technology Training may be Dying. (And what’s replacing it).
I was part of an interesting demo the other day. An employee walks into a board room and their phone automatically lights up with several pieces of indexed micro-learning content. Some content is about the projector, the video conferencing equipment and the telephone system. Common topics like how to make a conference call, turn on […]