In order to set your organization up for success you need to be able to communicate efficiently and effectively with all departments. Learning and development is crucial in order for a business to succeed. How do you ensure you are practicing the best methods in your training program? Chief Learning Rebel, Shannon Tipton, discusses out of the box thinking and blended learning techniques that will set your organization up for continued growth, development and success.

* – Fighting against the status quo* – The power of content deconstructionY* – You can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s thinking* – Reverse engineering the goal* – Utilizing chatbots in training* – How to solve communication issues * – Defining responsibility* – Creating an equation for success* – How focus groups help solve the underlying issues* – Why reading is the secret to growth & development* – Why we should ask ‘why’ more

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Todd: (14:17)Shannon, thanks so much for joining on the call today. I’m really excited to catch up.Shannon: (14:21)Me too. I’m super excited. It’s a great day. So let’s get down and dirty with it.Todd: (14:26)Yeah. Fighting the good fight. Right? So learning rebels is Shannon’s company. And why don’t you know at the beginning, I love for the listener to get right in your head and then maybe in your heart a little bit and figure out what led you to start learning rebels. And, and what’s your big why? Why do you do what you do and what is it that you do?Shannon: (14:48)Okay. Well, if you will indulge me, there’s little bit of a backstory here is learning rebels at first was simply a blog. And when I was working for corporate America, and this was Oh, probably about seven years ago I needed an Avenue for my thoughts. You know, so when you’re working in corporate America, you’re a little boxed in and maybe you have some beliefs in your head that you just need to find a voice for. And that’s when I started learning rebels just simply as a blog. Well then the universe came about and decided that I should not be in corporate America any longer and I should be out on my own. So my thought process was, you know, when you go on interviews, it’s, it’s like a date, right? So you have this, you have this situation where I’m trying to figure out if you’re good for me and you’re trying to figure out if I’m good for you.Shannon: (15:53)And just like any other first date, it’s all downhill from the first day, right? So if you don’t connect,