top of page

Search

Forward Momentum: How Growing Organizations Are Approaching Talent Development to Thrive Through Change
We wanted to know what the best organizations out there are doing to keep pace with change and growth to thrive. We spoke with leaders from
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 9, 202410 min read
147 views
0 comments

What to Consider About Culture When Implementing Community-Driven Talent Development
Let's talk about what you need to consider when it comes to culture as your determine whether and how to implement community-driven TD.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Apr 1, 20245 min read
60 views
0 comments

7 Strategies for Building Thriving Learning Communities with Influence
In this post, we’ll take a look at how you might draw on influence strategies to nudge your people to participate.
Katie Hynes, PhD
Dec 13, 20235 min read
112 views
0 comments


Get Off the Stage
Just sticking people in a room-- whether that room is physical or virtual-- will not do the work of helping them feel connected...
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Aug 30, 20233 min read
122 views
0 comments

Digital Body Language: It's More Than Smiling on Zoom Calls
Digital body language provides a way to talk about the challenges and opportunities for remote and hybrid teams as they work together online
Katie Hynes, PhD
Jul 5, 20234 min read
173 views
0 comments

Audience Analysis for Engaging Social Learning: Part 3
Let’s talk about connections you can make between the trends in your audience analysis data and the ways you’ll design your social learning
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 14, 20236 min read
100 views
0 comments

Audience Analysis for Engaging Social Learning Experiences: Part 1
We're going to walk you through more effective audience analysis and help you leverage what you learn to create social learning experiences.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
May 10, 20233 min read
162 views
0 comments

Practice Makes Progress: 7 Ways to Lower the Stakes & Raise Employee Performance
Many of our clients have high stakes, highly social interactions that their employees need to navigate. Here's how to prepare employees.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Mar 1, 20235 min read
208 views
0 comments

Flexy Solutions: Connect with Collaborative Learning Even When Your Team is on Different Time Zones
It's important we don't remove the social element just because we've gone remote and we're working at different times.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Feb 15, 20235 min read
121 views
0 comments

Why Social Learning Networks Actually Work- Thoughts from A Former Skeptic
Let's talk about why I am now a social learning network advocate and why I think that it is a scalable solution for L&D.
Rocio Granela
Feb 1, 20234 min read
338 views
1 comment

30-Second Stories for Training
I'm going to walk you through some frameworks for creating microvideo content for training that doesn't suck and isn't just for likes.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Oct 5, 20223 min read
255 views
1 comment

Caring: A Winning L&D Strategy
The scope of L&D may be limited, but the impact L&D can have on an organization is large, especially when it comes to caring.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Aug 24, 20225 min read
117 views
0 comments

Inexperienced Managers: 5 Skills and 7 Solutions Startups Can Use to Turn Performers into Leaders
How do you prepare top performers to manage effectively? In this article, you'll learn what they need to know and how to help them learn it.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Aug 17, 20225 min read
486 views
0 comments

6 Learning Strategies to Steal from Social Media
There is a lot we can learn from social media about how to quickly distribute learning, make content digestible, and create community.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jul 20, 20223 min read
384 views
0 comments

Why We're Doubling Down on Knowledge Sharing Over Training
We should be replacing training with knowledge sharing opportunities: peer to peer, to-down, formally documented, off the cuff, serious, fun
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 29, 20224 min read
489 views
2 comments

L&D Strategies for Growing Startups
Many startups have no internal learning and development expertise on staff, which is ironic, considering they have some of the most complex
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 9, 20225 min read
796 views
0 comments

The Grey Area: Designing Learning When There's No Clear Answer
It's about the wading through the grey area and making the best choice possible at that moment in time with the information you have in the
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Apr 27, 20223 min read
446 views
0 comments

What Meant Something to Me: PD Done Right
This week, I want to talk about and deconstruct some of the meaningful professional learning experiences
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Dec 15, 20214 min read
71 views
0 comments

Why Aren't There More Meaningful Learning Experiences for Professionals?
Last night, we had the last meeting of From Data to Design - Cohort 3, and as always, it was bittersweet seeing how much growth there had...
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Dec 10, 20212 min read
70 views
1 comment

How to Get Your IDs to Write Better
How do you help developing instructional designers improve their writing skills? Start with this blog post.
Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Sep 29, 20214 min read
636 views
2 comments
bottom of page