Open Forum Monday: The Rings of Focus – You

Open forum Monday brings us back around to the Rings of Focus and the focus is on “you” today. Brent talked about a recent video challenge in the Slack group, 360 video and some tech talk. Sam Rogers jumped in the window to share some techniques and hardware that related to the subjects at hand.

  1. The Rings of Focus – You
  2. Video challenge
  3. 360 video
  4. Tech talk – Mixing boards

Links in the chat:

http://aframe.io

https://vzaar.com/

http://incrementalsuccess.com/articles/donut-wednesday/

https://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-AG06-6-Channel-Mixer-Microphone/dp/B00TY8JFSC

https://www.amazon.com/Alesis-MULTIMIX4USBFX-4-Channel-Effects-Interface/dp/B00IPF9DX2/ref=sr_1_2?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1528127775&sr=1-2&keywords=alesis+mixer

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https://www.crowdcast.io/e/060418

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Guest Host Jo Cook: Rings of Focus; You

Monday morning and we have Jo Cook from the UK talking about the Rings of Focus and the center with “You!” The temperature was high where Jo was and the chat followed in suit! Jo talked about a great benchmark article that brings some insight to where the L&D field is today. We had a few guests drop in and talk with Jo in a video window and it spurred some great conversation in the text chat.

  1. What is coming from TLDC
  2. L&D: Where are we now?
  3. Discussion of L&D Capability chart
  4. Real world insight: Kim Lindsey
  5. Real world insight: An Coppens
  6. Evaluating training before it goes live
  7. Games in training: Escape Rooms idea
  8. What are “your” next steps

Links in the chat:

https://towardsmaturity.org/2017/11/27/ld-where-are-we-now/

https://twitter.com/LightbulbJo/status/993496075020447744

https://towardsmaturity.org/2017/11/27/ld-where-are-we-now/

https://twitter.com/eCom_Bethany/status/992878160285917185

http://www.giantsparrow.com/games/finch/

https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/21666907/Game_Experience_Questionnaire_English.pdf

https://www.gamificationnation.com/can-learn-bafta-best-game-winner/

https://faculty.uoit.ca/kapralos/csci5530/Papers/geq.pdf

http://www.gamexplab.nl

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https://www.crowdcast.io/e/050718

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Open Forum Monday – Story

This Monday brought us back to the Rings of Focus as we start in the center with “you”. The subject of story came out quickly and the chat was ablaze with ideas, input, and sharing. Be sure to scroll up through the chat to get some great nuggets around stories!

  1. Rings of Focus
  2. Story and where it fits
  3. What is it about stories?
  4. Writers block
  5. Task breaking
  6. Music to work to

Links in the chat:

https://www.designingdigitally.com/

https://storybrand.com/about/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/catalyst-sale-podcast-sales-training-sales-strategy/id1158596806?mt=2#

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/12/writers-block-and-the-drip.html

https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2018/mar/14/sound-how-listening-music-hinders-learning-lessons-research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrO9PTpuSSs

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https://www.crowdcast.io/e/040918

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Rings of Focus – You – Potpourri

Monday brings us back to the Rings of Focus and we start from the center with “You”. Brent guided us through a great article on eLearning will grow in higher education and how that bleeds over to the corporate L&D field and then through a few canvas models, closing with a current update of where he is in the L&D field these days.

  1. Last week in review
  2. This week in review
  3. Recent article on L&D/Higher Ed
  4. Learning model canvas
  5. Business model canvas
  6. Current state of Brent
  7. TLDC updates and coming soon.

Links in the chat:

https://news.elearninginside.com/elearning-will-grow-higher-ed-2018/

http://www.learningmodelcanvas.com/

https://www.alexandercowan.com/business-model-canvas-templates/

http://www.gameonlab.com/canvas/

https://dominknow.com/index.html

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https://www.crowdcast.io/e/031218

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Rings of Focus – Teams and Motivation

Show Notes – February 21, 2018

Today we are back to the Rings of Focus and specifically on the Teams circle. It was a great conversation with members in the text chat around teams, working remote, and managing workers. We had Ajay Pangarkar and Sam Rogers drop into video to back up some strong statements in the text chat. Be sure to scroll up through the text while you are listening back.

  1. Teams
  2. Working remote
  3. Eliminating paid teams
  4. Managing the work
  5. Motivation?

Links in the chat:

https://youtu.be/Vyn_xLrtZaY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy

https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/07/the-zappos-holacracy-experiment.html

http://time.com/money/2791618/telecommuting-what-marissa-mayer-got-right-and-wrong/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-telecommuting-allowed-why-is-google-investing-billions-of-dollars-in-office-buildings/

https://joshbersin.com/2018/01/agile-organization-models-are-going-mainstream/

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https://www.crowdcast.io/e/022118

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