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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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