well, see, that's great. I don't know if you're keeping track, but already we've shared something. We've shared a resource.
It works great.
That's awesome. I that idea, and that's a lot of money on green screens, where the green
screen goes away, it totally shows up the rest of the room. So, right, fun stuff. Okay,
well, okay, well, well, welcome everyone to another learning rebels, Coffee Chat. I am Shannon Tipton, the owner of learning rebels, and I am thrilled to have you all with me today as we continue our journey this quarter about focusing on you, and that started last month when we went through your big, hairy, audacious goals. So I'm really curious. I'd love to know if any of you took the work that you did in our last Coffee Chat and did any movement with a goal that you set for yourself, or if you tried to really work at thinking about goals in a different way, because, remember, a big part of our conversation was, you know, putting a more positive lens on our goals, rather than making them so, you know, like, I'm going to lose 20 pounds. Instead of focusing on that, it was the idea of, how can I be more healthier every day, you know, rather than trying to be more commanding and negative in our goal setting process. So I'm really curious anybody, anybody take any action and it's okay if, if you're like, Well, I blew that goal as soon as I hung up, that's alright. So I'd love to hear from you. So while you guys are typing that in, I'd also love to know who here amongst us today. This is your first time with our learning rebels, coffee chat, or maybe you haven't been with us for a while, so go ahead and share that in the chat, because we'd love to give you the warm welcome that you deserve. So let's, let's do that. So let's a first time since the last time. Thank you, Douglas. Don't know what I do without you. First time. Jenny, welcome. Yeah. Katrina, it's been a while, but I'm happy to see your face. Let's see boy that chats going by pretty quickly. Janet, you think it's your second visit? That's a well, we'll count that. We'll say, we'll say, it's your second visit. Adonia, did I say that? Right? I hope I did. I did. Okay. Um. Camille, rookie, No, sure you're not a rookie. You're just a newbie. For us, everyone's everyone's got stuff to share. Let's see um, oh, Stella, it's good to see you or your camera doesn't seem to be working. Good to see your name, then not good see your face. But still, it's been a while, yeah. Um, Maureen, one of your goals is to have a peaceful oasis in your bedroom. I'm can you transfer that over to my bedroom? Because my bedroom is far from a peaceful oasis. But I love that goal. And I think was it last year Maureen? Was it you talking about the Swedish death cleaning? Is that right?
I had said this is a couple years ago. It was clutter free in 23 but it continues to be an ongoing issue of the I have too much inventory for the space, so, but, but my sisters and she volunteered. She's like, Hey, you still want help decluttering. She's like, I have time on February 1, you know, from this time to time, I'm like, Yeah, book it. So I'm here with an accountability partner right there in the room. So there
you go, there you go. And I think that that's a another big takeaways when we think about the resources that we share and the help that we give each other, I think having somebody to help you in that journey becomes really important, especially when we think about setting our goals, but then also so we've got our the goals that you guys thought about the last time we were together, and let me know I want to just check something here real quick. Oh, okay, so the goals that you planned. Thought about the last time we were together. So now the resources that we're going to share today, hopefully you'll find something that complements that you know. So maybe you'll find a new podcast or an article or a YouTube channel or something that's going to help you, you know, meet the goals that you want to see for yourself in you know, and it could be short term in the next month or six months or year, you know. So wherever you see yourself, right as I'm looking through the chat, Heather, I watched a video that talked about the floor robe laundry that ends up on the floor or in random piles. Yeah, yeah, that's me. Drives, drives the boyfriend crazy, but that's me. I'm a pile person. That's just how it's going to be. All right. So now today all about sharing those resources. So pull out your list people, or if your list is a list of one that's fine. Your you know, what book do you want to share? If you've got websites that you'd like to share, podcasts, articles, research papers? Now's the time to pull up those lists so that we can start talking about them. Now, here's what I here's the question that I'm going to start off with is, is there a question out there that is, if only I had a resource for so let's complete that sentence, if only I had a resource for,
let's see where you go, a resource for, keeping all my resources. Yeah, that's that whole curation thing, isn't it? I
uh, yeah, I right. You save this, and you pulled it, and then you got the next thing you know, this list of resources is just, it's like your target
receipt, right, right, or CVS, right,
right. 85 coupons later that I'll never use one thing.
Yeah, okay, so we can start there. So I wish I had a resource for all my resources. So let's talk about that. So one of the suggestions that you all had was pocket How many of you are pocket users? I
yeah, I personally don't use pocket. I'm trying. I'm trying to get into notion. So I'm trying to learn that notion is new to me. It's something it does have a thank you, Katrina, I thought it was me. I'm like, am I not getting this? But it seems really helpful and handy, if I could get over the learning curve. Yep. Okay, so raindrop, um, is it, Loretta, I want to be sure I'm pronouncing your name correctly.
Uh, yes, it is. Okay.
So Loretta, tell me about raindrop. That's new. I've never heard that.
So it's, I guess I did try to use pocket a few years ago, but somehow it didn't really stick. But with raindrop, it's, it's on the you could do it on the web. There's also an app, like a desktop app, I guess you can download, but pretty much whatever, once you have it added to your like extensions or whatever, any page that you're on, if you want to save that page, if you want to save an article, you can save it, and then you the thing, I think, for me, is that it allows you to categorize things As you save them. So it's a very quick, like, add it and then write whatever category you want to save it as, and every other tag or whatever. So it's easy to find the next time that you need it. So it's, yeah, not a steep learning call, very quick and very easy, I would say, like that. Now for me, because I'm one of those people, has like, 100 tabs open all the time. So,
oh my god, yes, you not. We're sisters,
right? So, I mean, I would say that range up has been helpful to I'm just like, I'll close the like, I'll save the tab and close it, because otherwise, like I said, I have, like, not just one window of 100 tabs, but like 20 windows, 100 Right,
right? Yeah, I feel you on that, and I think I'd love to be able to generate that list. But also remember, not our next copy chat, but the coffee chat after and. If somebody has that information, that would be awesome. So I didn't have to search for it. I should have been prepared, but in two coffee chats time, we're talking about productivity tools. So this is a good conversation that that hooks along really nicely with that. So we can have that we can absolutely share those resources here, but remember, we're going to talk about them more in depth, which I guess is a great follow up conversation, you know, for for this. So one one tab, I don't think I've ever heard of that. In 67 sleeps. Yes, in 67 sleeps, we're going to be talking about productivity. Um, yeah, because you know what, I'm just haven't quite I have a couple of tools that I use. Evernote used to be one of them. But I still use, I still use good good notes. Good notes is great for my iPad. I use good notes all the all of the time, you know, to help me with sorting through lists and notes and things like that. But I still find, and I'll get off of this topic here in a second, so I can save it for our next for in 67 sleeps, that I still find that when I am dealing with a complicated project. It's still a notebook, you know, yeah, and I have collections. I'm sure I'm not the only one with collections of notebooks from all the different conferences. I don't have to buy a new notebook for like, the next 10 years, but, but, yeah, yes, Katrina, that's me absolutely. And so we'll talk about notebooks. And maybe that's a great part of our topic, when we talk about productivity tools, is, you know, if you use paper notebooks, how do you keep that information organized? So I think that that would be a great follow up conversation. Okay, so now let's ask it. Let me ask it again, if only I had a resource for somebody. Put that into the chat for me. Fill in the blank. If only I had a resource for i
What do you guys wish you had a resource for or I wish I had a book about a manual for aligning learning strategy with business strategy? Ooh, okay. Oh, look at that. Oh. Andrew.
Christopher newbar, I actually have a friend who works for him and this line instructional design with business goals. I heard about it on this call, and a call with Alina, and I was like, Okay, well, I have to buy the book, and it really has informed a lot of things that I want to change.
I'll type it in. Oh wait, yeah, type it in if you can find, like, a amazon link or, Oh yeah, perfect.
I'll do that whatever
bookstore of your choice. Highly,
highly recommend,
awesome Erica. What was it? Did you just held that? I was musing over whether or not it would be well aligned, but I think it would ATD released the organizational development handbook, so it's od related, but clearly OD is definitely getting into the business goals, but I don't I think the thing that would be missing that Andrews books looks like it's a little bit better, is maybe the direct tie between, you know your learning strategy with your business strategy, but if you are looking to dig a little bit more into business strategy so that you're understanding what you're doing with your your learning goals and strategies, I do think that this still could be a complimentary book. Yes, yes, you're right. And I think you know any of the ATD handbooks out there are going to help you and give you guidance with that so and yes, thank you. To Victoria, you mentioned that if you're an ATD member, you save 10% on their publications. Yes. Camille, the irony is that instructional design books couldn't come up with instructional design for their covers. Oh, my God, I I just wrote the TV at work for drip learning and learning reinforcement, and the cover is horrendous. It's the worst cover. And I'm like, I could have clip art a better cover here. Take this. And they're and I actually gave them a suggestion, here's a better cover that you can use that more, you know, shows what's inside the pages of this. And they said, well, our design team came up with this one, so we think it's better. And I'm like, Okay, what are you going to do? Okay, also, the CEO's guide to training. Yes, that's a good Yeah. Will Follow her. Yeah. Also a book out there, stories of a CEO, what your CEOs will never tell you. It's something it's something like that. Somebody would be kind enough to do a search and see if they can't find what I what gibberish I'm trying to talk about. Let's see. I got a remarkable recently. What is, what's a remarkable what is that
Jenny
trying to unmute. I'm a Google user, so zoom always, like, catches me quick as I like, right? Um, so remarkable is a, uh, it's literally a digital notebook. Like, it's a really, really expensive digital notebook. Um, more digital. So like it, you just like, it's capturing. It's not like paper, like you're writing digitally, but it, I think it's pretty responsive. The piece I was wrestling with, yeah, Brandon chimed in. He's gone too. The challenge that I was really wrestling with was, I'm a paper note person, and so I have a pretty large team, and I felt like I was losing track of, like, where had we been going in one on one. So that was problem number one that I wanted to solve for, and I it absolutely has helped me tackle that, because I feel like I have, and I am not somebody who's going to take my my paper and, like, type it somewhere like that to me, right? And I don't like taking notes. I like to write. So, like, I'm kind of this weird. Like, I need to figure out how to do something more organized, organized digitally. But I wasn't going to, like, move to digital note taking. I'm just not going to so I feel like this is been a pretty good meet in the middle for me. I love that I can still write. There's a convert to text. So I just used, I did a certification for a couple of my folks this week. I took all my notes on paper like I normally would, and instead of spending two or three hours on the airplane on my way home, typing those from paper into a doc so I could share it with them. I did a convert to text, and I've had to do just a little bit of formatting, but, I mean, it's probably saved me at least two hours, and I still got to kind of do things the way I wanted to, um, there are things like Brandon, maybe you're more sophisticated, so feel free to chime in, like there's some tags and some other features that allow you to kind of manage the activity. And I'm still I need to find time to learn how to use all the bells and whistles. But the one cool thing I'll say, if anybody's on the fence and what made me pull the trigger when I was reading reviews is remarkable. Has 100 day return policy, and I guess they're like, really great about honoring it. So if you're on the fence and you have enough disposable income to purchase a really expensive note taking tool, pull the trigger, and if you hate it, you can return it. So that was that gave me the confidence to finally say, I'm gonna do it so but I, I'm gonna keep mine like I'm over 100 days. I'm I'm committed at this time. You're in, you're in.
Yeah, I'm three years in on mine. Okay, and I don't know, I didn't catch who had held up all the notebooks. But, oh, Katrina, you would love this, because it is the for me, the selling point was, when I was thinking about I was like, Well, you could just do it with a tablet. But if anyone is, like, taking notes on tablets and it just doesn't have the paper pencil, feel the selling point for the remarkable is that it feels like you are actually just writing on regular paper. So it's like you're taking notes in your actual notebook. And it does have, you know, you can upload or put PDFs and stuff on it. So, like, I have a few digital books on it, but I don't really read it. It's like, this is just really to me. It's just like combining 100 of those eight and a half by 11 notepads in this one thing that I can carry around. And it's just awesome. And one of the other cool things, I don't know if Jenny mentioned it or not, but I don't know if you guys can see it, but when. You are writing, they have, can I get that close enough on there, they have different pen style or different writing tool style, so
dog on it.
So if you can see that you can actually tell it that if you want your your writing tool to be like a marker, a mechanical pencil, a pen and so forth and so on, so you can kind of dictate how it writes in so whenever people in my office, they'll walk past my desk and see me taking notes on this, and as opposed to trying to explaining it, I just do this here. I just give them a blank page with the tool and say, write on it. And they're like, Wow, that is so cool. So I've had a couple people that just trying it themselves. For mine have decided that they want to get it, and it's just been a game changer for me, because I used to have a bunch of those just notepads all over the place. And it's like, you know, when you go back looking for something, it's like, which pad was that in, and what page was it, right? You can, you can, like, still organize it right in folders and everything. So it's been a game changer for me, and I highly recommend it for anyone
awesome. That's great. Okay,
I have one in addition to my notebooks. My son, you wanted one for when he went to college, so that he wasn't tempted by the internet, because you can connect your documents to the internet, but it doesn't have like a browser to be able to search. And once I played with PIs, just like Brandon said, once I played with it, I was like, I think I need to have this. And so I was somebody gifted it for to me for Christmas. So I'm still trying to, still try to work it into my, my overall, like, flow of life.
I'm struggling to break free from paper to do list, though, like I've, I've been kind of in and out, and it's like life gets real crazy. I go back to paper to do list, because, like, I can take them and play with them and add to them. So that's been the one. If I can master that, I'll be happy. But I just think in chaos, I'm probably going to go back to paper to do list. But everything else, I haven't taken any notes on paper in like, three months. So outside of, okay, well, I think that this will make a so come on back when we're talking about productivity tools, and we can dig deeper. We can dig deeper into those, because I would love to learn more about remarkable and the other tools that that we're discussing. So I think that that'll be a fun conversation. Now, one of the other things that I saw pop up here when I said, If only I had a resource for it flew by me real quick, and it was, oh, here we go. I would love a book on writing for social media. So that was Camille. So Camille, I'm really curious as to what do you mean by that. Do you mean by how to write social posts for your business, or how to just write shorter digital content? Was there, was there an idea that you had in mind? What was it still in the vein of short digital content that is going to get clicks and it's going to get views, but it's not click, baby. Oh, right. It's relevant. It's helpful. I'm just looking for more like guidance around tone, length, graphics, just everything to do with creating sort of bite sized social media content that's not corporate, right? Oh, okay, I let me put this into but I gotta shorten this link real quick so we don't end up with like a ton. Let's see where, where did tiny URL go? The book that I'm looking at for you is a book called Digital Marketing 2025 and that talks about digital marketing from a social media perspective, also an SEO perspective. So if you're looking like for a business, so then it's so not your business, so just strictly writing, okay, yeah, if I sell anything, it's going to be ideas. Okay, there was another one that I read that was really good ideas about social media content. Let me see if I can find it for you, and maybe somebody else has an idea for that. Okay, Isabelle Stern, thank you, Katrina, and she's got the link. Dave burst, I don't think I've ever heard of him. We'll see what we can find with that. I. Let me see if I can find it here. So Dave, oh, that's an eye
spell check went in my Amazon account changed birds to birds, so now all of a sudden, I have all these bird books in front of me, and I don't think that's the resource we're looking for.
He's this great guy who I mean he I watch him for AI tips especially, and I find him really interesting, and in the way he makes things approachable. And I remember specifically one of his videos, and I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly which one, but he was talking about social media plan. And he's like, he was just, and do this and do this and do this and drop it in. And so it might not be exactly what what you're looking for, but it might be a an angle of something to consider.
Oh, for sure, because you can use, use chat, GPT or Gemini or whatever tool that you are familiar with, and ask it for social content as well. So if you've got so a concept that you're probably familiar with, which is called Content batching. And what you do with that, for example, is I could take the transcript from here, throw that transcript into chat. GPT, ask it to condense it, summarize it, or what have you. And from that, I can say, now generate for me, three LinkedIn posts, three Facebook posts, three tweets, etc. And then from there, you can customize it so that it's in your own voice. I could also ask it to say in from this coffee chat transcript, generate three short video scripts, and then it'll do that as well. So there is synergy behind learning from people who are really good at AI and then also combining that with some subject matter expertise around social media in general. Right no lack for ideas. You love writing, but guidance, right? I think it cancels. Doctor completely ignored. And I wish I had the answer to that too, but I'll tell you, I'll be perfectly honest. So for those of you who might have your own business or are just trying to build your online reputation, LinkedIn has done something funny with its algorithm lately. I don't know what it is, but people that normally see me. Aren't seeing me, you know. So I've gotten a few messages about, Where did you disappear to? And I have to say, well, in all honesty, I haven't posted anything recently, but they're not seeing anything older either. So there might be something funky happening in the algorithm, but there's what is his name? Let's see, is it Gary? I'll find it here. So hopefully some of that was helpful for you. While I'm trying to look this up, I'll also ask you guys, what else? So if only you had a resource for, put that into the chat for me, hopefully this has generated some ideas for you. I wish I had a resource for.
Let me ask you this while you guys are typing that in, give me your favorite podcast right now. So for those of you who are podcast listeners, it doesn't have to be L, D, related, just what's your favorite podcast right now? Learning geeks, armchair expert. That's a good one. Learning geeks is good coaching for leaders. I don't think I've heard of that all right, not gonna lie. I like the curious brain. Oh, learning a cut. Of course, you got it right. Learning uncut. That's gotta get Michelle in there, of course. Now, who is this? Douglas. I. Who's Who's Jay Shetty,
Jay shedding on purpose with Jay Shetty, the former monk. Oh.
Okay. And so, what is he talking about?
Lots of stuff. Like, for me, it helps, like, just keeping grounded, right? It's about relationships and things to that nature, okay? And he's and he's amusing as well. We'll
see I like a good, funny person.
That's why I show up. That's
why you show up that is, let me, oh, I was looking for Gary Gary Vander Chuck, because he has some good information about business in general, ideas in general, you know. And I think that. I think Seth Godin also, but Gary seems to be really attuned to that online world, you know, things that might give us better ideas about how to do things differently, how to do them better, you know. So I usually pay attention when he's talking, yeah, the curious brain, yes, Justine, they really dive deep into a whole different set of topics. And I like that because, you know, curiosity, I think, is something really important in what we do, generally, and anything that's going to provoke thought, I think, is a real benefit and is a real great resource for us. You know, because we spend a lot of time immersed in the world that we're in as far as learning and development goes, and that's great, because we should be curious about what we do, but to to really build those curiosity muscles, I think that it's important to learn more about why things just do the things they do, right, and it helps us to ask more why questions. And I think if I had a wish for the industry, it would be to ask more? Why questions? Why aren't we doing more of that? You know? Why? Why this? Why that you know, and I think any podcast or any YouTube channel that's going to help you get there from here is a benefit. Now let me find my podcast list.
Oh, well, here's one that was recommended for me. The curious advantage. So, there you go. I love these little ones that pop up. I
Where's my library? Here we go. Oh, I'm sorry I did. I've got, it's I got two podcasts conflated. So the first one is called unmistakable, creative, so you can put that into the chat. So unmistakable, creative. And the other one was the hidden brain. So I got those two LinkedIn. So let's see the hidden brain
and the I'm in a dark room, and my typing skills are not that great.
Hidden brain is pretty good, but every once in a while you gotta walk away from that.
It gets pretty deep sometimes, yeah, yeah. This is just pretty terrible. No yoga pants on. This is a long shirt Rachel gave me. What? Okay, catching my butt. Hey. Dr, Bob, you think that was? Dr, Bob, 100% all right. Okay. So what else are we looking for? So we've got some podcast lists. If only I had went to Hawaii did if only I had a resource for I will share with you some of the ones that seem to make the most popular list. So when we're talking about we're talking about learning and development specifically, I think one of the greatest resources out there is Kathy Moore. So Kathy Moore, her website, the book, map, it. Right? So if you are looking for inspiration in that area or or one of my newsletters, it looks like, okay, sharing their screen. It's taken over my call. Someone has taken over my call. Let's see here we're going to There we go. Okay, bye, bye.
Yes please. I'm going to do a couple of things here real quick, and then we're going to
stop
there. We go. All right now I'm back in control. I don't know if that just goes to show, isn't it? It's a real, true learning rebels environment when y'all just decide to take over my show, let's do the time warp. All right, so we were talking about Kathy Moore map it, and I was just recently going through my book list as I was on the airplane out here and I was looking for a book that was inspirational for me. And one of those books was the one. It's called The One Thing by Gary Keller. And the reason why I think this is a great resource for people is because it really does help you think about the one thing that's important. It helps you focus. It gives you tips for focus, and it's really encouraging to remind you of there are all of these peripheral things around us, things that grab our attention, all the shiny things, but sometimes it's really important just to focus on the one thing, and the importance of focusing on the one thing. And so that was a book that I thought was inspirational to me, but also still a good resource to bring into your learning library, you know, and to really help you make things better for others you know. So if you can remember the focus on the one thing when you're in learning design, if you when you're in E Learning Development, or when you're trying to plan your next strategy move, then I think that words like that really do help as a trainer, I still rely on the try to resource. Sharon Bowmans, yeah, how did how to give it so they get it? That is an oldie, but goodie. You're right. That's That's excellent, for sure. Okay, what else would you guys like to share? So what's on? Let's talk about resources that can help us be better at what we do. Help Us maybe be better instructional designers, or what have you Yes, Katrina, I
have another oldie but goodie, like, don't have to see, like, how like, messed up this book is, but telling ain't training. I think every other instructional design book is just like, from this book, you know, from Gilbert's model looking at performance to everything. Like, it's kind of my Bible, if you will.
Yeah, yeah,
me too. And, and you know that it's true because I don't know how many times telling a training has found its way into the lexicon. We just say it now, telling isn't training telling isn't training telling isn't training and it all comes from that book. So that's almost the Google of L and D books. Yeah, I love that they used eight in the title, right? Me too, because it's so true. It's so true. All right, excellent. And then another one is, work, play. Oh, it's rolled. I don't know it's so JDS book, of course. So JD Dillon is learning it as a learning in the ecosystem, right? Oh, no, modern learning ecosystem. There it is. Thank you, victorious. So if you're trying to work out how all of these seemingly unconnected things can be connected in your workplace, then that's the book to read, for sure, the Coaching Habit, that's a good book as well. You. What YouTube channels do you guys gravitate to? Let's share a little bit about that.
YouTube channels, or maybe websites. If you're not a YouTube person, maybe there's a website that you find yourself going back to, or a blog that you find yourself going back to, oh Devlin Peck, okay for articulate? Actually, that's a good question, too. How many of you need a good resource for using articulate or Captivate or like Torah? Anyone still using electoral I Tim Slade's website, yeah. How about the articulate e learning hero site? So their their web page, so somebody wants to pull that link up and throw it into the chat, that would be helpful. So for those of you not in the know and who are e learning developers, the articulate e learning heroes, what they do is when, if you join in, they send challenges, and then they post those challenges. And I think that this is a great way for E Learning developers to stay on top of their skills, how to how to do new things, how to experiment with new techniques, and some of their challenges are really simple, like create an easy button, you know, something that seems simple on the surface, but can really stretch the limits of creativity sometimes.
What is that I'm reading Camille's. I learned last week that Amazon Web Services will let you create 5 million characters worth of text to speech MP threes for free, and it uploads into Captivate no way they even have a counter. You can, like, put a plug in for a counter and it'll count how many characters you've used up, so that before you get to 5 million, you can close your free trial and use a new email address. Perhaps it doesn't work really well. It works great. It works way better than the Captivate AI voice sounds like it sounds much more natural. And you can choose from, I think, three or four different male and then three or four different female voices. It works. And you can just cut and paste, and you can preview it, and then if you like it, you download it. It goes into your downloads folder. And then you can just in Captivate. You can just upload straight from your downloads folder, and Bob's your uncle. You've got audio on your on your Captivate slide. It's fast. Wow, I did not know that it's kind of buried, and it, if you're not familiar, like, I am not familiar with anything, computer science, web development, nothing. It's, it's very wordy to get there, like the website is really intimidating, but once, yeah, nothing on Amazon's back end is user family. It's called Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly, there you go. Polly, like, P, O, L, L, Y, like, poly, one, a cracker. There you go. Something to explore Amazon Polly. So if somebody again, sitting in the dark here, and it would be helpful if somebody could find that and throw it into the chat for me. There it is. Thank you. Jason, okay, and so yes, websites. TD, of course. So if you are a member of ATD. I'm a member of ATD. I've always been a member of ATD. I hold their national membership, not their local one, because I find that the discounts that you get on their research papers and their books and some of their events is, it's worth it, it's worth it. So you get a lot of really good research and information, sometimes free. So a lot of them, if you had to pay 20 bucks for it, if you weren't a member, it's free if you are, you know. And that adds up really quickly too. Let's see H HBr. Oh, yeah, I love HBr. Love all the things HBr. I get there. I subscribe to their like, books and such. So I get all of their new things. So it's, it's really awesome. So I highly recommend that the E Learning. Coach, you can't go wrong with Kelly, with Connie Malamed, you just can't. So if you are, you know, if you're a designer, once again, that's definitely the page to be I mean, yeah, pick web page to be linked into, for sure. Well, oh, tech Smith, the TechSmith. So those of you who are in the TechSmith ecosystem, and that is tools like Snagit, Camtasia, Audi ate, then what they've done with their YouTube channel, if you haven't noticed or haven't been there recently, is they broke each of their products into their into a separate YouTube channel because they realized that they were posting so much and it was just getting really confusing, so they have kind of segregated that, and it's been really it's really nice. Now you can find all sorts of good help there. So highly recommend their YouTube page and odd, speaking of voice to text, their audio. I don't know anybody that uses audio. I use audio eight for a lot of my speech to text, or text to speech. I'll tell you what their voices on audio. It's like butter, like but I'm telling you, I mean that the voices sound so good, though. Highly recommend it. Okay, what other things are you watching or listening to that you want to share? And feel free you can come off mic. If you've got stuff to share, share it. Let's do it. We've got, we've got a little less than 10 minutes left. So let's see what we can do with these 10 minutes people. How many, how many things can we share? I wanted to verbally share only because it's been finding it difficult to write it. So I started to subscribe to McKinsey's information. So again, you know, if you're if you get a little wonky and you like looking into the research and some of the stuff that's going on, sort of at a larger scale, about the things that would impact us within our industry, or data that you can help pull down into your initiatives and your projects. You know, Shannon has referred us to a lot of McKinsey stuff. So I decided to go ahead and subscribe, word of caution, the way that you drill down to some of the information you're gonna have to play with it, it was not necessarily intuitive, meaning you're sort of figuring out what space and so when I picked the things that I did, like, I'm getting so much email notice, so many email notifications from Mackenzie. It's ridiculous. So now I'm like, Okay, now I gotta figure out what to throw out. And okay, so this is not exactly what I thought it was going to be. So that's the only thing they do have an app, and I downloaded the app, and so that might be a real nice way of being able to look at your content as well. So that's something that's been new for me. I didn't know they had an app. Well, I should have known that, right? Everybody has an app, it seems like. But yes, like, you know, I do. I love me some McKinsey research that's usually pretty on point, and you can depend on it. And I saw that Nancy placed in here the training mag. Training mag, lots of great webinars and training mag, as i i do webinars for training mag myself. So I'll say they've got a lot of good webinars, myself included. So I'll just do that. Yeah, and a lot of them are free. They do host workshops that aren't for free, but some of them are pretty, you know, intense. So there, there's some good stuff floating out there on training. Mag, yep, and they, yes, they do. They record all of them, and you they're all archived. So it's a really good resource out there for sure. Um, what else have we got here that I might be missing? So we've got techsmiths YouTube channel. We've got training mag. I want to be sure that I'm catching everybody's comments. What? What else do we have now? What about speaking of conferences, liberating structures. Maureen, thank you, boy, you are like reading my mind. I knew that there was something in the front of my head that I wanted to get out, and it was liberating structures. Thank you for that. So one of them, so rather than my voice droning on, do you want to share a little bit more about what liberating structures is all about?
Yeah, I'm not sure that I'm the best person to speak to that. I just know that with I mean liberating structures is, is I. Just thinking about different ways of like, divergent and convergent thinking. What are some things like don't get stuck inside of the same like, the same old, same old. It's a way to kind of break through and get people to think differently or participate or collaborate and everything else. So there's a book on liberating structures. I've just found as a practitioner that Douglas Ferguson and invoke with voltage control. I forgot who the other guy, then where I found them was on was through like mural when they used to have like these mural workshops, like hands on labs every other week, and they were on there a lot, and were very good about sharing resources and, you know, teaching people how to facilitate using the different tools that are out there. So anyway, it's worthwhile to check them out if you want kind of the more of the facilitation.
Yeah. And if you go to the second link that I posted there, that's their menu. So liberating structures, and what you see when you go to their menu is it's seven by five. So that's 3535 different types of activities listed there to help people be more creative, in problem solving, in ideation. It's a whole, a whole host of different processes and experimentations that you can put into place. And they also have them, if you scroll down on their website. They also put it into they have this annotated menu which tells you what you might want to use each why does this keep showing up? I don't know what you guys are seeing, but all of a sudden, Zoom is doing something weird on my end. Um, there we go. There we go, okay, um, it tells you what each one is all about, and it also gives you, uh, an idea as to the difficulty of it. So there are certainly some exercises that are more advanced than others. So it gives you kind of a good pathway as to which ones to use and which ones you know you might want to save for later. Yes, he does. Dr, Bob is feeling he's feeling frisky today. Shannon, yes, there's also an app for liberating structures. It's called Lisa. There it is. Thank you for that. What's really cool about it is, when I was I just facilitated drawing together last week for my team, and one of the things you can do inside of the app is you can create a string, and so depending on the work that you're doing with the team or the client, you can then determine a string of liberating structures that you think you might want to utilize, whether it's in the course of a single session or multiple sessions, because to Shannon's point, what Each liberating structure will give you as far as like goals. It'll let you know what this might be best utilized for. Is it for, you know, idea, ideation? Is it for Breaking Through Barriers? Is it for building up the team? Is it for dealing with difficulties? Or, you know, difficult conversations. So it was, I thought it was really cool that you can build out your own string depending on the work that you're trying to do and how you see synergy between the structures. Yeah, I love it. And so I again. Thank you, Maureen, I knew that there was something nagging the back of my head that I wanted to talk about, and that was it. So I think that's a great resource to leave you guys with, because I think we're all looking for that different activity, right? We We all have that one activity that we use over and over again, and the participants still find it fun, but maybe we find it boring, and it's I need some new, fresh ideas. Liberating structures is a great way to go, because the way that the way that I use liberating structures is i i use it, but then a lot of times I tweak it. So how can I tweak it for the virtual setting? How can I tweak it for this audience or that audience? So I find that it's a really great springboard for ideas. So I so thank you. And we are at the top of the hour. I can't believe it, the hour always runs so quick. Quickly, and so I will leave you with don't forget that for those of you who are new or haven't been with us for a while, our next Coffee Chat is actually on Valentine's Day. You know? So So bring your chocolates, bring your flowers, or whatever Valentine's Day means to you. Bring that along, and we're going to be talking about now. I'm hoping that you're seeing the thread here is that first we talked about setting your goals, and now we've shared some resources, hopefully to help you meet those goals. And so now what we're going to do the next time around is we're building a habit of continuous learning. So now, how do we build habits into our workflow that helps us meet our goals, to use those resources, to keep studying, to keep learning and to keep to keep doing the things that we want to do that we have already identified are important. So now, how do we build that continuous habit of learning? And so this is the pull through that we're working through for the you know, these next few coffee chats. Is the focus on you before we start going back into digging deeper into, you know, how do we how do we fix the learning in our businesses, we will get to those conversations, but first we've got to we've got to help you guys and myself upskill, be more curious, pay more attention to what our learning needs are. So I hope that's what you all are getting from this. And let me put the so just so you can learn more about what next week's is, or probably some of you have already registered for it, because you can do that through the Zoom link, but here is actually the landing page or the website for it, so you can learn more about what we're going to be talking about here in two weeks. Alright? So I hope that you guys all have a fabulous weekend out there. It's the weekend before the Super Bowl. So let me ask you this, either in the chat or shout it out loud, chiefs or eagles, none
of the above.
My number the people we want, the puppy bowl. Puppy bowl. Yes, eagles. Oh, come on, Andrew, do you guys sour grapes happening over there? Did your team not make it?
I'm from Chicago.
Oh, well, me too. What can we do? Okay, I have to call out for all of my fellow Chicagoans, what in the world is going on with Matthew mcconaughey's Uber Eats commercial where it's clearly that he's trying to be Mike dick. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. I don't know I want to hear this on Taylor rides for winning.
That's awesome. The Lions
are out, so I don't care. I really wanted the lions to win that game. I really did. I really did. I was rooting for him. I'm a 49 years fan, so that's hard for me to say, but you know, I wanted, I wanted the lions to be able to do it. I wanted the bills to do it. I love the bills blew it. They had every opportunity to win that game. But this is what it is, and here we are. So hopefully you guys all have a great and wonderful weekend. You're doing something fun, exciting, stay safe, and I look forward to seeing you guys in two weeks. Bye,