🚪 Escape rooms, acquisitions, and geriatric millennials
Plus the week's best content, news, and events for learning professionals
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Happy Monday! I’m working on two longer pieces of writing that I’ll share soon. In lieu of a main blog post, here’s a quote that I’ve been mulling over:
“There will never be a perfect time to do something that stretches you.
That’s true whether you are starting a business, having a child, changing careers, or wrestling with any number of challenges. That’s not a license to be reckless and never think things through, but at some point you have to embrace the uncertainty because it is the only path forward.
If you were ready for it, it wouldn't be growth.”
-James Clear
📆 Upcoming Events
💻 LineZero is hosting a webinar on Technology's Role in Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace on September 30th. They’re also giving all live North American attendees a $20 Uber Eats voucher, so make sure to register!
🎉 L&D Cares is hosting a free Career Growth Summit running September 21st - 23rd. Each day will feature several sessions around a main topic:
Day 1: Career Resilience
Day 2: Empowerment League
Day 3: Learning in the Mix
🎧 eLearning Escape Rooms?
In the latest episode of Instructional Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee, Alexander Salas discusses how to boost learner engagement by taking inspiration from escape rooms!
📚Recommended Reading
🛌 The CEOs of America’s fastest growing companies have some counterintuitive productivity hacks, like watching more reality TV and solving problems during sleep.
👴🏽 “Geriatric Millennials” are a fascinating slice of the workforce. These 36-to-41-year-olds can act as a generation bridge by “teaching traditional communication skills to younger employees and digital body language to older team members.” They’re also quitting their jobs at a higher rate than any other age group.
👩🏽🎓 Women now make up 59.5% of college students, an all time high. U.S. colleges and universities also have 1.5 million fewer students enrolled than they did five years ago, with men accounting for 71% of the decline.
📈 BetterUp, a business that brings career and personal coaching beyond the C-suite to employees at every level, announced not just one but two acquisitions this week:
Motive, which uses artificial intelligence to understand and track employee and customer emotions
Impraise, a platform to help managers build engaged and high performing teams
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