On the annual employee engagement survey at Disney, one question was guaranteed to get a low score—one of the lowest, in fact. Despite being the survey lead, I just couldn’t get the score to rise.
I swear I used to have more time than I do now. Sometimes I wonder how much of the reason why is my phone. It's so easy to lose a half hour here and there to mindless scrolling. Now, it's OK if you ...
Many employees complain that they do not have time to learn, particularly when learning initiatives require them to be out of their offices when deadlines are fast approaching. When teams say, "There ...
1. Learn several things at a time. The process is called interleaving: studying related concepts or skills in parallel. Instead of focusing on one subject, one task, or one skill during a learning ...
I’ve always been a curious learner. As a kid, I’d spend hours outside alone watching nature. I loved to see how bugs interacted with their environment and with each other. It was a whole world that I ...
The usual system for grading students is, bit by bit, going by the wayside in favor of one that emphasizes learning over traditional measures. It’s a healthy shift, though traditionalists no doubt are ...
There’s no national policy dictating how many days or hours students must attend classes each year. That means students in some states and districts can end the year with substantially more learning ...
Most educators and parents would agree that the sweeping virtual instruction thrown together overnight at the beginning of the pandemic wasn’t nearly as effective as in-person learning for most ...