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January 30, 2014 Learning From Others

Elements of Learning Experience Design

The process of designing any sort of human experience, regardless of purpose or platform, is centered around reaching a desired outcome, ideally with as little fuss and as much joy as possible. The purpose of an experience and the platform on which the experience takes place will vary: purchasing a plane ticket on a tablet to vacation, enjoying a musical performance in a theater, or learning to code in a classroom. Although each of these experiences require their own unique

January 28, 2014 Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 7

Posted by Sandy Greene

After discussing how to prepare, plant, water, fertilize, till and experiment with and then observe and protect your organic garden of a team, I’m happy to announce that the last two steps are quite fun. You’ve worked hard to grow your business and have made the necessary tweaks along the way. Things couldn’t be better. Or could they? Picking comes next, and it’s a way to recognize the highest achievers and celebrate successes.

January 14, 2014 Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 6

Posted by Sandy Greene

In this series, I’ve been using an organic garden analogy to describe how we’ve grown Intuitive Company sevenfold over the past five years. In previous installments I gave advice on how to prepare your organization for growth, and what it means to plant the right people into the mix, water and add fertilizer to encourage success, and then till and experiment to continue pushing yourselves. Now comes time for observing and protecting. We’ve been thrilled to watch Intuitive Company grow

January 9, 2014 Workplace and Career

Changing Lanes

Posted by Rich Lee

In the course of your life, unless you have inherited your family’s Piggly Wiggly fortune, you will have held a number jobs. Maybe you started out in your teens by bagging groceries, or perhaps you filled up that piggy bank by babysitting or mowing lawns. That first job hopefully taught you some valuable lessons about life. You probably learned that time is money, that you have to work hard in order to do well and keep that job, that learning

January 7, 2014 Learning From Others / Process and Methods

The Creative Impact of Improvisation

Posted by Amy Jiménez Márquez

Improvisation is a very old and time-tested form of theater. The earliest use of improvisation is found in records of a Roman farce performed in 391 BC. Given its long history, it’s surprising to me that in our modern world, comedy–and comedic improvisation–is considered a low-brow form of entertainment. It is generally eschewed by the erudite. But it shouldn’t be. My own experience with improvisation spans 20+ years. And in the middle of that I took a hiatus from performing