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The Top #ATD2017 Tweets: Ideas and Insights from Influencers

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These tweets really got us talking at this week’s ATD conference!

We don’t know about you, but we had a blast at ATD 2017! Most of us are probably still digesting everything we’ve learned and want to take back to our office, but in the meantime we thought it would be fun to take a quick look at some of the top #ATD2017 tweets to come out of the conference. We had so many fantastic conversations with attendees, and we want to keep these discussions going!

There were a LOT of great presentations and important topics discussed over the past few days. But we’ve done our best to pick out a few of the tweets we think highlight some important challenges, inspiring insights and emerging themes our industry is exploring.

Did any of these catch your eye too? Let us know what you think we should have included on this list!

In this tweet, attendee Michele quotes Captains Mark and Scott Kelly – NASA astronauts and retired US Navy captains, and a perfect choice to help kick things off on a Monday morning. Their keynote was a call to action for learning professionals and learners alike, demanding that we think big but break actions down into small, manageable steps. This quote clearly struck a chord for many of the attendees in the room who devote themselves to teaching others.

Attendee Mike quotes CEO of Habit Design Michael Kim, who made this important distinction when addressing attendees on Monday afternoon. While we sometimes say people “hate change,” it is also often true that people love improvement.

Now that organizational change is a constant reality, it often falls on L&D professionals to help companies and people adapt. So whether you call it buy-in, adoption, or something else, we need to speak to intrinsic motivation, because when people are motivated to move forward they will embrace new ways of doing things.

A lot of interest around microlearning at this year’s ATD conference, and this tweet from Shannon Tipton, author of “Disruptive Learning,” goes to the core of one of the challenges L&D professionals face in this environment of constant change.

If we try to be too all-encompassing with our training, or we wait until it’s perfect, there’s a chance it may be irrelevant before learners ever even see it. Microlearning can be one tool for L&D professionals who need to deliver content quickly, in digestible chunks.

Mike, an attendee and prolific #ATD2017 tweeter, calls out a great Elliott Masie insight in this tweet. In all the buzz about personalized learning, one message is sometimes lost. In order to do it well, personalization requires learners to actively engage – to declare what they want more or less of and what does or doesn’t work for them as an individual. While technology and systems will enable this new approach to learning, it is still ultimately up to L&D to find ways to engage learners in the process.

From his session on “Make Training A Want To (Not A Have To)”, in this visual Joe Urbanski draws a really clear distinction between a Learning & Development professional who may have fallen into auto-pilot, versus someone who is a leader in learning at their organization. This is a great reminder of how we all need to push harder in order to achieve the results we hope to see.

Josh calls himself a “trainer who makes the complicated simple” and this takeaway he shared caught quite a few eyes. There have been several articles written recently arguing for whether or not leadership training actually works – if this statistic is to be believed, maybe current leadership training is an intervention that’s just taking place too late in a person’s career! What do you think?

There were several interesting talks and conversations about learning and neuroscience at this year’s ATD conference. This tweet from attendee and coach Britt Andreatta distills a simple truth, but it also points to the fact that what happens after training may be just as important as what happens during. Rewarding the behavior you’ve trained for is an important step to build the habit.

Ken Blanchard is a giant in the business leadership world. Launching his book “One Minute Mentoring” at the ATD conference this week with Claire Diaz-Ortiz, the two spoke about the role of mentorship in learning and in shaping careers. Reminding us that while technology can extend our capabilities in many ways, learning and development comes back to personal connection time and again. Our challenge is to take advantage of the first without forgetting the other.

One last bonus tweet! If you’re in the Greater Atlanta area and want to see more of Docebo, we’ve got some good news – we’re back in just a couple weeks! You can sign up here to attend our Docebo on the Road event, where we’ll serve food and drinks and share some stories about how Docebo is helping achieve results in corporate training programs like yours.

Farewell for now though – we had a great time at ATD 2017, and we hope you did too!

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