Let’s stop making excuses like “our older workers will not embrace new learning technologies”

ASTD Staff

I hear the same excuse every time I talk to change resistant learning professionals: Theres a bad cultural fit for new learning approaches here (to which I say, if youre not willing to challenge a stale culture, youre in the wrong profession), we dont have time (but you... More »

It’s time to let go of control

ASTD Staff

Lets be honest, our profession is full of control freaks, people who are not half as concerned about sharing data as they are about protecting their data. The first question I get when I give presentations at ASTD conferences is usually not great, how can we leverage so... More »

Death-by-webinars

ASTD Staff

The latest rage in the learning community is webinars. The Adobe Connect, WebEx and LiveMeetings of the words are sweeping the learning industry and leaving a path of Death-by-PowerPoint destruction behind it.Most webinars wind up mimicking the worst of the 1000-year ol... More »

Stand up against your IT department!

ASTD Staff

Lets stop pretending that you have a partnership with your IT department. Case in point: At one Fortune 100 company, a learning leader has to ask someone to unlock a hot, nosy and a cramped server closet every Thursday morning to get outside of the firewall and attend o... More »

New Skills for Learning Professionals

Tony Karrer

This month's big question comes out of a discussion that I've been having in various forms over the past few years. In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, ... More »