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3 Symptoms of Whiz-bang E-learning Disease & How to Cure It
Gimmickry rules the day on e-learning authoring platforms. Learners deserve more: evidence-based strategies for real-world outcomes. The hard-fought victories of the Flash-media e-learning days pale

Think Strategy First for a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
Take a minute and look around your workplace. Does everyone look like you? Do some people dominate conversations and situations at the expense of others?

One Big Mistake That Will Derail Your Public Education Campaign
As the executive director of a not-for-profit, how many times have you seen this happen: Your team designs a public education campaign with utmost care,

Dialectic Book Club: AI and Machine Learning for Business
The Dialectic Book Club recently explored one of today’s hottest topics, discussing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Business by Steven Finlay, a practical and concise

Is Your Workplace Culture Machine Learning Ready?
Machine Learning, AI and Change Management: 3 Ways Leaders Can Prepare Their Organization for Success For decades, futurists have been predicting that the workplace will

MM4 – Big Data, Small Data and the Post-truth Era
Meeting of the Minds 4 – Big Data, Small Data and The Post-Truth Era Big data and modern computational capabilities have led to unprecedented predictive

Beyond Reports: Moving From Awareness to Behaviour Change
How Not-for-Profits Can Turn Awareness Into Real Change Most leaders of not-for-profit organizations are well acquainted with the constant conflict between a deep desire to

Dialectic Book Club: Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited
Introducing the Dialectic Book Club The Dialectic team regularly meets to discuss books that we collectively read for insights into our work designing e-learning, organizational

E-learning Game Helps Families Discuss Advance Care Planning
The Thanksgiving holiday season is the perfect time for families to have important discussions about advance care planning. Advance care planning involves making decisions about

3 Mistakes HR Leaders Make Trying to Fix Corporate Culture
Toxic corporate cultures can be incredibly difficult to fix, despite the valiant efforts of HR leaders to create programs to improve morale and boost productivity.
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- E-learning
- Employee Experience
- Knowledge Mobilization (KMb)
- Leadership and Management
- Unconscious Bias, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- All
- E-learning
- Employee Experience
- Knowledge Mobilization (KMb)
- Leadership and Management
- Unconscious Bias, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

3 Symptoms of Whiz-bang E-learning Disease & How to Cure It
Gimmickry rules the day on e-learning authoring platforms. Learners deserve more: evidence-based strategies for real-world outcomes. The hard-fought victories of

Think Strategy First for a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
Take a minute and look around your workplace. Does everyone look like you? Do some people dominate conversations and situations

One Big Mistake That Will Derail Your Public Education Campaign
As the executive director of a not-for-profit, how many times have you seen this happen: Your team designs a public

Is Your Workplace Culture Machine Learning Ready?
Machine Learning, AI and Change Management: 3 Ways Leaders Can Prepare Their Organization for Success For decades, futurists have been

Beyond Reports: Moving From Awareness to Behaviour Change
How Not-for-Profits Can Turn Awareness Into Real ChangeMost leaders of not-for-profit organizations are well acquainted with the constant conflict between

E-learning Game Helps Families Discuss Advance Care Planning
The Thanksgiving holiday season is the perfect time for families to have important discussions about advance care planning.Advance care planning

3 Mistakes HR Leaders Make Trying to Fix Corporate Culture
Toxic corporate cultures can be incredibly difficult to fix, despite the valiant efforts of HR leaders to create programs to

#HRCYouthReport Addresses LGBTQ Teen Experience
We couldn’t be more proud to see our partners at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation release their groundbreaking report on
