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You Can Overcome These Obstacles to eLearning for Adults

Clarity Consultants

ELearning is a format that makes sense for all age groups, particularly as more and more demographics gain access to digital content and devices. But where it really shines is in the corporate realm. Adults are capable of being great learners, but sometimes (especially for eLearning programs) obstacles may arise. Here's a quick look at some of the most common learning barriers older learners encounter, and a few tips to help you overcome those obstacles.

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The trap of listening to feedback

Seth Godin Blog

"If I listened to feedback, I would have quit on the first day.". You're devoting your life to making something important. Something helpful. Something that matters. Mostly, something that hasn't been done before, that's going to bend the curve and make an impact. If you begin and end with surveys and focus groups, all you're going to do is what's been done before.

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What to Do When Personal and Professional Commitments Compete for Your Time

Harvard Business

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images. You’re double booked. It’s not just one meeting scheduled over another. It’s something for your family at odds with a work commitment. These situations can trigger guilt and stress. Guilt because you feel like you’re letting others down — no matter what you decide, you will lose. And stress because you can’t literally be in two places at once.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Website

MBO Partners

Follow these steps to ensure your professional website is operating at its highest potential.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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More and More Jobs Today Require a License. That’s Good for Some Workers, but Not Always for Consumers

Harvard Business

Bhavesh1988/Getty Images. Over the last few decades, the job market in the U.S. has changed in many ways. But one trend that hasn’t received nearly enough attention is the steady rise of occupational licensing: more and more jobs are requiring workers to be licensed to enter the profession. In the 1950s, approximately 5% of U.S. workers had an occupational license, meaning they completed additional schooling or training (and paid the necessary fees) and passed an exam to be licensed to pra

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Research: Patients want a consumer-driven healthcare experience

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Healthcare patients have come to expect the same digital tools used in the consumer world, from scheduling appointments to picking up prescriptions.According to NTT Data Services research 59 percent of U.S. healthcare patients want their digital customer experience (DCX) to be like that of retail. This includes mobile interactions that are simple and quick to navigate with easy-to-locate features, such as finding medical history.This means healthcare organizations need to make use of digital t.

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Respect for Humanity Starts with Yourself

Markovitz Consulting

I recently gave a talk to the Bay Area chapter of the Lean Construction Institute. One of the most active discussions centered on how the lean concept of flow translates to individual work. (This was a topic in my first book, A Factory of One.) The group concluded that enabling people to have flow in their work is a demonstration of respect for humanity.

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The Manager’s Role in an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

Agile transformations are tough. That’s because wherever you start, the agile transformation creates culture clashes. Often, teams start with agile approaches. Teams discover the agile approach and practices that work for that team. Then, as the team gains experience, they refine their approach and practices. That’s the external part of what we see in an agile transformation.

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To Reduce Sexual Misconduct, Help People Understand How Their Advances Might Be Received

Harvard Business

pbombaert/Getty Images. The revelations of the #MeToo movement seem to have caught many men by surprise. Comedian Aziz Ansari was “ surprised and concerned ,” believing his encounter with a woman to be “by all indications completely consensual.” Well-known actor Richard Dreyfus was “ bewildered to discover ” an incident wasn’t consensual, leading him to “reassess every relationship I have ever thought was playful and mutual.” Although there a

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How to Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Health Technology

Harvard Business

Jamie Jones/Getty Images. In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. Slack argued that “the electronic digital computer, with its capacity to hold large amounts of data and to execute multiple complex instructions and accuracy would…find an important clinical role in both diagnosis and treatment.” While the digitization of health in