What do you do when budgets are tight and you need to find impactful ways to recognize employees? 💰Think beyond expensive gifting platforms and monetary rewards. 🔨Use the tools you have to celebrate learning, connections, and success. 🏆Focus on how teams can use their wins to help others. The activities…

I learned how to ride a bike when I was seven. I remember wobbling around on the little red frame in my grassy backyard. I rode to keep up with my friends as we explored our town. I rode to gain a sense of independence from being driven around by…

What if you could model a presentation after your favorite childhood game? — How many presentations have you attended over the past two and a half years? 50? 100? More than 100? How many of them stood out? How many did you enjoy attending? Standard templates often lead to standard presentations. In business, sometimes you have to use the company template and branding…

One of my first projects as a learning leader was to create a learning newsletter that would: Get people excited about upcoming internal learning programs Advertise industry-wide learning opportunities, and Feature skills development resources for a variety of job roles and levels. Three years later, we’re celebrating the 🎂 50th…

“We’ve decided not to move forward with your candidacy at this time. We decided to move to next steps with candidates that have had more experience with building programs from the ground up in-house.” This was a response I received from a recruiter back in early 2019. I was making…

I wasn’t the first person to start playing Wordle at my company. When I found out about it, I jumped right into making the game a daily part of my routine during the work week. Why? It’s fun! It’s challenging enough without being overwhelming. It doesn’t take a lot of…

Take your relationship with learning to the next level — Since it’s Valentine’s Day, this is likely the 10th article you’ve seen on your feed today about Love Languages. I hope you read on, because this one goes in a different direction… People prefer to love in different ways. It stands to reason that the way to their heart when…

How to find out what really matters and then go build it As a Learning & Growth Manager in Tech, my focus is on how I can help our teams continuously learn and grow in their careers so they can do their best work. …