539 - Reading Online; Accelerated Leadership and Tower of Terror Race
August 25, 2008 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - August 25, 2008.
#539 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
54,369 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Host, Learning ‘08 - Oct. 26-29 - Over 1,032 Colleagues Registered!
1. Reading Online - Is It Different?
2. Accelerated Leadership Development
3. Tower of Terror Race at Learning 2008
1. Reading Online - Is It Different? We have a robust discussion underway about the pro’s, con’s and differences of Reading Online. As we do more of our reading online, what is different (or the same) from an intellectual, emotional, navigational and retention perspective? Personally, I enjoy the search and hyperlink capability - plus the ability to clip and send content to others. However, I find my focus to be less and there is a weaker emotional experience when I am reading fiction online. Join the discussion underway with over 5,600 of your colleagues at LearningTown: http://www.learningtown.com
2. Accelerated Leadership Development: One of my “hot” topics these days focuses on how do we accelerate the leadership development in our organizations? Organizations that were taking three years to develop their leaders are now under severe pressure to speed that up. What can we do, through redesign and immersion, to get a leader ready in 6 months? Brian Poland, a senior learning colleague from Walmart, has agreed to lead a high level discussion at Learning 2008 on this topic. We would love to hear from TRENDS readers about your thoughts or efforts to rapidly accelerate leadership (or executive) development. Send me an email to emasie@masie.com
3. Tower of Terror Race at Learning 2008: Join a team of learning colleagues as they run 13 kilometers through the darkened streets of Disney’s Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM) in a special Tower of Terror Race on the eve before Learning 2008 (Sat, Oct 25th). Disney is hosting this charity event, which will include over 4,000 runners - and the Learning 2008 team! We already have a contingent of learning runners training for this event. We have created a virtual support and training process with Nike Plus technology and a community of practice & competition. Paul Arciero, our Mind/Body keynoter, is also training and coaching this event. Our team leaders are Robert Gerard from Accenture and Lauren Neitzel from The MASIE Center. You can even go to the event and cheer on our team that night. For complete details go to: http://www.learning2008.com/terror or send a note to lauren@masie.com
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