Interviewed as Prelude to Symposium for Learning Leaders

The Northern New Jersey ASTD Learning Leaders Forum has invited me to speak at their October 15th meeting. To whet the appetite, we created the following video interview, separated into separate videos.

  1. What research have you found interesting? What's new?
  2. Lessons learned from learning leaders
  3. Five failures of workplace learning professionals
  4. Advice for learning leaders (CLO's, training directors, etc.)
  5. What are you going to speak about on October 15th?

I'd like to send special thanks to Tony Irace–a long-time colleague and a great learning leader–and his co-conspirator at the Northern New Jersey ASTD Learning Leaders Forum, Meg Paradise. Thanks for your interest in my work and for organizing this great event!!

Click here to get the details about the event if you're in the area.

Decisive Dozen — Research Support

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In continuing my dual career–partly as a charismatic and wildly-effective learning consultant and keynote speaker, partly as a grizzled, hermitted researcher and agonizingly-slow book writer (still working on the same book for the last 16 years)–I have started talking publicly about my list of 12 factors that if training developers implemented, would propel their training to divine glory. I call this list “The Decisive Dozen.”

Click here to read a short introduction to the Decisive Dozen

Of course, I get questions. “How does he do it when so many others have perished?” “How does he get his hair to do that?” And my personal favorite, “How the hell does Thalheimer know these are the most critical learning factors?” It’s a fair question, and instead of releasing 12 chapters from my potentially-forthcoming hopefully-not-posthumorous book, I created a little research brief just to show that I’m not making this stuff up. I’m stealing directly from the world’s best learning researchers!

Click to download the Decisive Dozen Research Review

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Stop Using Slide Templates

Too many organizations insist on using slide templates (slide decorations) in their training slides and presentations. This is a bad idea, and I've created the following narrated slide deck to make a research-based case against these bedeviling adornments:

Thinking about SMART Goals

In Thiagi's Newsletter this month, he has a wild stream of reflections about SMART goals.

Kind of funny. Nice to have the broad perspective.

Check it out here…