It’s Just One Little Tortoise…

We all should aspire to be a bit more like the tortoise; At ease in our own shell, Taking time to contemplate, And of course, Having a keen appreciation for flowers.   Ever since I was a little ...

Are your customers and clients loyal to your business? Can they be wooed away or simply forget about you for another? What even is customer loyalty these days and how in the world are you going to as...

Is the Annual Review Dead?

While most businesses still honor a formal annual review, gone (or at least they should be) are the days of walking down the hall of uncertainty to your supervisor’s office to hear in ten to fi...

Project Management

Project management –  one of the few professions in which when someone asks, “What do you do?” you can honestly say everything! I cannot think of one other job that requires you to be knowledge...

Human Resources Management – perhaps the most undervalued area in business, yet I’ll argue, one of the most important by far. Most think of HR as where they are hired, pickup their paycheck and recei...

What is Gamification?

Gamification, a concept that was first coined by Nick Pelling in 2002, is the use of machines and the feel of a game to change behavior. In regards to online learning, gamification is adding game mec...

A Look At What An Instructional Designer Is About

What is Instructional Design? Instructional design is using specific integrated systems to develop instructional specifications relying upon established theories to ensure the quality of the curricul...

Lean or Agile: How are they Different?

In all fairness, most people have no idea at the difference between Lean and Agile in project management and assume they are essentially the same thing in different wrapping. Trust me – they’re not. ...

Change Management

Where project management is all about achieving the project objectives, change management is all about getting humans to adopt, utilize and engage. It’s not hard to understand that a wonderful delive...