“Wait, Vivayic did that project?” After four years of working for this company, I probably shouldn’t be surprised to hear that question anymore. This past weekend, I reconnected with an old friend at a wedding, and, as we caught up with each other’s work lives — it hit me.
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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.
We have feet on the ground in Uganda! Those feet belong to Doug Kueker, Leah Gibson, Morgan Walkup, Andrea Tenney, and several more from Field of Hope.
The team arrived in time to be greeted by the rains. If you haven’t experienced the African rains, there truly is nothing quite like watching the clouds roll over the Nile River, seeing lightning crack across a sky with zero light pollution, and listening to the drops pound on an old tin roof.
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.
A few months ago, while on site with a client, we worked to map out a solution architecture for their large learning initiative. As we talked through things, it became evident that a few performance support tools would greatly enrich the overall effectiveness of the curriculum.
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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!