The COVID-19 pandemic has made the issue of training and retraining urgent rather than just a future necessity. In 2017, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that up to 375 million workers—or 14 percent of the global workforce—would have to switch occupations or acquire new skills by 2030 because of automation and
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How We Learn: We Are Good At Forgetting
We are good at forgetting, sometimes forgetting 60-70% within one day of a learning event. So dumping a lot of information on learners is a bad idea. This is the big challenge of one-time learning events, where we separate work from learning. Forgetting does have a purpose, it eliminates unnecessary
How We Learn: Facts Aren’t Important
We have a difficult time remembering facts and details, they’re just not important to human memory, yet most of our courses are laden with facts. According Dr Roger Schank, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, in his report What We Learn When We Learn By Doing, facts can only be acquired in
Enspire Earns 2020 “CSO50 Security Awareness and Training” Award
Enspire Learning’s innovative threat-awareness learning experience, developed with client partner Prudential Financial has been recognized by CSO as a 2020 CSO50 award winner in the Security Awareness and Training category. The annual award recognizes the top 50 world-class security projects and initiatives demonstrating outstanding business value and thought leadership. A
Hiring For Trajectory And Lifelong Learning
Is a shift in hiring strategy necessary with new generations of workers entering the workforce without a degree? The Hiring Disconnect Companies are being “pushed to reconsider the importance of an expensive diploma.” Moving forward, “candidates will be selected based on their potential career trajectory and not necessarily what they
Behind the Scenes: Child Advocacy Volunteer Learning Experience
Preparing volunteers to advocate for the best interests of children, and to perform their role with confidence and a deeper understanding of the many complex issues facing children and their families is important work. Enspire Learning has the privilege of partnering with a non-profit client to adapt two classroom sessions
Threat Awareness: Maintaining A Violence-Free Workplace
Maintaining a violence-free work environment is a top priority for all companies. The global security team of one of our clients wanted to empower their employees to recognize and report inappropriate conduct or other behaviors of concern observed in the workplace. They asked Enspire Learning to create an innovative, engaging,
What the Learner Wants
We’ve all done it at some point. Built a learning experience (or two) in a bubble, assuming we know what’s best for the learner. How do we ensure the best experience for the learner? Here’s a start.
Key Traits Differentiating Successful Organizations
A good friend from Massachusetts recently sent me a link to the following Washington Post article . . . The Patriots’ secret is focusing on the details. Every. Last. Detail. Regardless of your feelings towards the Patriots, they have proven extremely consistent and successful since 2001. The article touched on
Knowledge Flows and Collaborative Learning
In Thomas Friedman‘s latest book Thank You For Being Late, he talks about “the Big Shift,” a phrase coined by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison (Abandon Stocks, Embrace Flows, Harvard Business Review, January 27, 2009). What is the big shift? Previously, if you (country/company/individual) knew something