Last week, I viewed a webinar on the topic of complexity in learning. Even though I’ve worked in this field for more than 20 years, I always seek out new perspectives and ideas. The webinar was hosted by a national thought leader and was well-done, professional, and useful — to a point.
Over the years, science has deepened our understanding of the different facets of happiness. We know that there are universal mood boosters such as fresh air, bright colors, laughter, and time spent with positive people. Recently, we’ve learned about the power happiness has over our immune system and chronic pain. But, what about giving? Sure, we know giving can increase our sense of purpose, but how does it affect our happiness?
If you’ve seen our Learning Solutions Model, you know how we do things. Before we jump into building the learning experience, we seek clarity. We also work with the client to proactively plan and evaluate the utility of the learning. When considering utility, one of the many questions we ask is, “How will we support implementation and drive utilization?”
At Vivayic, we hold a strong commitment to our values, purpose, and operating principles in our core. Of these, our purpose — building others’ capacity to do good in the world — seems to resonate most deeply with our team and clients. We wanted a tangible visualization of our purpose. That led to the creation of the Global Good sculpture that you see on this website.
Last week, Whitney Thurmond and I met with the leadership team of a mid-sized company with more than 400 sales representatives and sales managers. The company is in the midst of launching a new market segmentation strategy that will reshape the expectations for their sales teams. We were asked to share our insights on what they should do to ensure sales training and development supported the new strategy.
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“Wait, what?” This is a question I’ve been asked approximately 27 times by friends and family in the last week. On Monday, I was teaching Psychology of Human Relations at Lake Area Technical Institute; on Friday, I was traveling to Portland, Maine for my first Vivayic team meeting. When you leave a job you are profoundly passionate about for something completely different, people have questions.
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On occasion, we turn the interns loose on social media. In this article, we asked two of them to share insights on their time with us. Enjoy!
“Every moment spent in the kitchen with my mother has prepared me for this moment.”
Not a revelation I ever thought I would have in the middle of a conversation with a client, but I said it.
Last month, I attended the Western Pathways Conference in Salt Lake City. It was another tremendous event organized by Dr. William Simmon. At the conference, I helped facilitate discussion sessions for state career technical education (CTE) leaders in attendance. As part of those discussions, I shared a blueprint (see the link below) for how states might plan and execute a process to develop a statewide vision for CTE that could inform the development of new state plans required under the anticipated reauthorization of the federal Perkins Act.
Vivayic is a company that chooses to be great instead of big. A big part of our motivation for this revolves around the Small Giants philosophy.