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Stop Rewarding Attendance Over Actual Impact

In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, it’s imperative that we reassess how we measure and reward success. The antiquated practice of valuing employees based on their proximity to the office rather than their contributions and results is a disservice to talent and innovation. This video is a call to action for leaders to abandon these obsolete … Continue reading

Leaders are at all Levels

As remote work becomes more common in 2024, traditional corporate hierarchies will begin flattening to empower employees at all levels with greater autonomy, responsibility, and strategic input. In this video I share techniques to retain talent by embracing “leaders at all levels” and evolving managers and employees into decisive, empowered collaborators suited for flatter organizational … Continue reading

The Ryan Report: October 2023

Remember the magic triangle where you only get to pick 2? L&D juggles three key elements: compliance, development, and support. If we focus on the reactive needs of compliance and support then we’re missing opportunities to prepare people for future skills, roles and promotions. In this video I focus on taking an integrated approach to this challenge … Continue reading

The Ryan Report: April 2023

If you can’t see me leading, then how will you know I’m a leader? That’s seems to be a concern as many are pushing for a return to the office and others are asking, why? In this video I examine how leadership should be intentional with curiosity driving open conversations. Plan the time and focus on the people, … Continue reading

Lessons learned from moving online

A recent project took a traditional classroom program and moved it to a blended, online learning experience. During this process 3 items came into my focus as we ramped up for the synchronous web conferencing sessions.  Did you know that time zones don’t automatically convert in all calendars? There is also a place for communication … Continue reading

The Ryan Report – October 2020

News to use, ideas to share in this month’s Ryan Report.  Love to hear your feedback and new topics you want to learn and grow with!  Always open to Zooming with you, together we are stronger so don’t let being remote or at a distance keep us from connecting and engaging – let’s learn together!  I’ll … Continue reading

The Ryan Report – September 2020

News to use, ideas to share in this month’s Ryan Report.  Love to hear your feedback and new topics you want to learn and grow with!  Always open to Zooming with you, together we are stronger so don’t let being remote or at a distance keep us from connecting and engaging – let’s learn together!  I’ll … Continue reading

Organizational Ownership

We talk about creating a learning culture and having employees take control of their learning and professional development and then we get so frustrated when workers attending these high-quality training courses are texting or checking their emails under the table.  Don’t they want to learn? Before we point fingers at bored employee let us step … Continue reading

Planning for flexibility

Sometimes contingency plans have a way of becoming permanent and while we have made the transition to remote work and remote learning we need to start require instruction to be more accommodating for all involved. In this short video I share the need for a hybrid flexible, or HyFlex, model that supports location choice and … Continue reading

It’s not the ROI, ROL matters more!

I had a conversation recently with a learning leader at an organization who was being pushed to show their ROI – return on investment.  Granted in the last couple of years they have brought a new LMS online and added designers to the team so management wanted to know if the expenses were paying off.   … Continue reading

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