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Lisa Johnson is a global practice leader for consulting services at Crown World Mobility.

Lisa Johnson

December 2015 - TD Magazine

Against the Wind

Whitney Johnson, founder and CEO of Disruption Advisors, is an innovation and disruption theorist and award-winning Wall Street stock analyst.

Smart Growth: Q&A With Whitney Johnson

Lisa Christen is CEO of a boutique leadership development firm, Christen Coaching & Consulting. She is an award-winning executive coach and an expert in developing 21st century leaders, teams, and cultures with clients from companies such as Google, Dell, Mars, Johnson & Johnson, and Siemens. From performance coaching for royalty to culture transformation at Fortune 100s, Christen knows what it takes to help leaders thrive in the digital era.

Lisa Christen

January 2024 - TD Magazine

A review of Fast Forward: 5 Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year by Wendy Leshgold and Lisa McCarthy

One-Year, One Life-Changing Action Plan

You have a network and ways to upskill, even from afar.During recent months, many of us may feel as though we’ve lost our network. It’s no longer easy to pop by a colleague’s office and bounce off ideas for a new training program or discuss a new tool. However, the Association for Talent Development has several resources that can help make up for the peer expertise you feel you’ve been missing.Ask a Trainer. This online question-and-answer column featured on TD.org seeks to be responsive to real-world talent development problems, reflecting what’s on practitioners’ minds and offering practical guidance. The series enables talent development professionals to ask questions anonymously and receive advice on training dilemmas, instructional design snafus, e-learning challenges, and any other stumbling blocks that come their way. Originally featuring Tim Slade answering questions, the column now includes guest columnists weighing in.For example: Do you have multiple generations in your training audience? How do you deliver effectively to all of them? Management and generational diversity expert Bruce Tulgan answered this diverse audience question. The individual who submitted the question posited, “Younger learners seem to respond to a more conversational facilitation style and appreciate interaction, while older learners seem to be less bothered by lecture.” Tulgan advised, “No matter what, I try to teach like I’m talking to each and every individual. Whenever possible, we survey the audience in advance to find out what’s bothering them and what their learning goals are.”Other columns have addressed such topics as how L&D professionals can support frontline workers, ways to develop an online learning support system, and how to prove the value of talent development in a down economy. Submit your pressing talent development questions to askatrainer@td.org.The Accidental Trainer. This bi-monthly podcast series, which kicked off on January 20, features interviews with renowned experts in the talent development field. Among them have been Elliott Masie, Karl Kapp, Connie Malamed, and Bev Kaye. Moderated by ATD’s Career Development Content Manager Lisa Spinelli and sponsored by GP Strategies, The Accidental Trainer has relayed expert advice on such topics as how to stay on top of trends in technology, why talent is everything, and how to gain confidence in your training delivery.An especially timely guest was Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Given the massive upheaval these last few months—to our businesses and to the way we do work but, most importantly, to life in general—how can you manage more easily? That is a challenge regardless of the circumstances behind it, even when we disrupt ourselves. Gather some tips from Johnson and hear how she has managed during challenging times. (Bonus: Access Whitney Johnson’s Disrupt Yourself podcast for further tips.)Friday Twitter Chat. When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, most of us (who weren’t already doing so) began working from home. Even for those who had been working remotely, things likely felt different: uncertain, scary. To help connect and share what we are going through together, ATD began Friday Twitter Chats, beginning at noon ET. Participants have talked about how they’re staying productive and healthy and about how they’re supporting each other. Niranjani Chidamber Papavaritis, manager of ATD’s healthcare community, mentioned that she asks about others’ well-being rather than jumping right into work discussions. For her own health, she takes breaks to focus on deep breaths throughout the day and to clear her head.On March 20, participants shared some of their virtual training tips—including suggestions on engaging learners in the virtual environment and advice for first-time virtual trainers. A recap of the conversation is available at TD.org.What are you learning? Take part in the next @ATD chat to share and learn from your talent development colleagues.ATD Virtual Training Resources. Many in the talent field are embarking on training, managing, collaborating, as well as other processes virtually for the first time. That’s why ATD has pulled together some of its best resources on virtual training in one place. Watch, read, and learn. And discover how you can access additional resources. Check out “6 Things to Consider When Transitioning to Virtual Training,” “Remote Workers Need Real Communication,” “Producing Virtual Training Certificate,” and much more.Times are challenging, but now is also a great time to grow yourself so you can continue to upskill and reskill learners.Share your ATD Virtual Conference experience on social media. #ATDVirtualConference

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With a passion for creating positive change in the world, Sandra brings a dynamic wealth of expertise to her work with clients and partners. Sandra specializes in providing solutions to clients to help them implement the necessary conditions for a fully engaged, innovative, and productive workforce. During her 25-year career in professional consulting, global business development, and facilitating, Sandra has provided insights to help some of the world’s most well-known organizations implement the necessary conditions for a fully engaged, innovative, and productive workforce. Sandra recently joined Persona GLOBAL, and works with Persona GLOBAL partners, authors, and clients to establish and manage new and existing relationships. Sandra’s diverse client list includes PricewaterhouseCoopers, Microsoft, Sanofi, Johnson & Johnson, PMI, and Honeywell; one of her strengths lies in closing the gap between where organizations are and where they need to be. She uses a wide variety of tools and strategies to generate a new kind of organizational thinking, one that leads businesses to seize emerging opportunities, achieve positive and sustainable change, and thrive in today’s volatile marketplace. Sandra developed a global business that covered more than 55 countries and 65 partners, spanning each continent and translating programs into more than 30 languages working directly in 70 countries. People, relationships, and culture are important to her and the foundation of her business.

Sandra Herriot

Attend the Evidence-Based Learning Virtual Conference, and learn more best practices like these from 6 of learning’s top thought leaders.Whether you prepare slides, e-learning screens, print-based materials, or all three, chances are, you frequently need to describe a visual with text. You may need to list the steps to use equipment or online applications. Or you may need to describe how something works. What’s the best way to organize and display text in conjunction with a visual to promote learning? Take a look at the two experimental treatments in the figures to follow and answer the following questions:1. Which do you think led to better learning?2. What are the major differences between the two displays? Figure 1. How Brakes Work: Version 1 (Johnson and Mayer, 2012) Figure 2. How Brakes Work: Version 2 (Johnson and Mayer, 2012)How to Best Display Text With GraphicsIn the experiment, 44 university students were randomly assigned to study how brakes work from one of the two the versions shown in Figures 1 and 2. As the students reviewed the display, their eye movements and eye fixations were tracked. After a short study period, they were tested with problems such as, “What could be done to make brakes more reliable – that is, to make sure they would not fail?” The learners studying Figure 2 averaged significantly higher scores on the test than those studying Figure 1, with a high effect size of 0.80.What features made Figure 2 more effective? One obvious difference is the alignment of the text close to the relevant portion of the visual rather than all displayed at the bottom of the slide as in Figure 1. The alignment of text close to the relevant portion of a visual is called the spatial contiguity effect and has been shown to lead to better learning, with a mean effect size of 0.72 (Ginns, 2006). Note that Version 2 also includes numbers as well as a line to link text and visual elements. Another benefit of text alignment is segmenting the text into short phrases. Rather than five sentences displayed at the bottom of the screen in Figure 1, the integrated version displays the content in six short phrases.Why Is Integrated Text More Effective?An analysis of student eye movements showed that both groups spent more time reviewing the text than the diagrams and used the text to guide their processing of the graphics. However those studying the integrated version made more integrative and corresponding eye transitions between text and visual than those using the separated version. In other words, those viewing the integrated version looked at the corresponding part of the diagram after reading a segment of text more often than individuals viewing the separated version. The more frequent visual integration of text and relevant portion of the diagram promoted better cognitive integration of text and visual and led to deeper understanding.In summary, we have a solid foundation of evidence calling for segmenting text into short phrases and integrating it close to the relevant portion of the visual. Placement of text near a visual helps the learner integrate the corresponding content in their mind to form a better mental model.Your Lessons Learned: RSVPHow do you place explanatory text with a related visual? Have you tried a layout such as that shown in Figure 2? What outcomes did you notice? Did you need more or different resources (time, tools, etc) to prepare an integrated version? Please comment with your lessons learned.ReferencesGinns, P. (2006). Integrating information: A meta-analysis of the spatial contiguity and temporal contiguity effects.  Learning and Instruction, 16, 511-525.Johnson, C.I. & Mayer, R.E. (2012). An eye movement analysis of the spatial contiguity effect in multimedia learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 18, 178-191.

Displaying Text With Visuals: What Are the Best Practices?

Michelle Reina, PhD, is co-founder of Reina Trust Building, a global firm specializing in transforming workplaces—and lives—through trust. Reina’s focus for 30 years has been researching trust and developing practical methodologies and tools to assess and measurably strengthen trust in workplace relationships.Leaders, teams, and organizations such as American Express, Ben & Jerry’s, Center for Creative Leadership, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Harvard University, Johnson & Johnson, Lincoln Financial Group, Miller Coors, Nokia, Toyota, Turner Broadcasting (CNN), Voya Financial, VISA, Yale University, Walt Disney World, and the US Army and Treasury Departments have leveraged Reina’s comprehensive trust-building system. Through consulting, speaking, training, and coaching, Reina supports people not only to build trust but also to rebuild trust, regain happiness and joy, and work productively again in relationships where trust has been compromised.Reina’s work is based upon an underlying premise that all business is conducted via relationships, and trust is the core foundation to effective relationships that produce results and forge human connection.Reina believes that all people want, need and deserve to have trust in their relationships with others, and in themselves.Reina and her husband, Dennis Reina, are co-authors of two business bestselling books: Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace, 3rd edition and Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace.

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