by arunaway | Sep 23, 2016 | Design for Performance, Innovation, Top Picks
About a year ago, one of the big four Australian banks approached DeakinPrime with a challenge. We were asked to pitch for a compliance training job targeting the bank’s thousands of independent insurance brokers. The initial request was very specific, calling...
by arunaway | Sep 11, 2016 | Innovation, Learning Agility
Every time we focus our attention we’re making choices about how we fill our relatively limited working memory. Latest research indicates that there are about 4 chunks within our working memory that are filled and lost quickly, but before they slip away there’s a...
by arunaway | Sep 11, 2016 | Learning Agility
Our story begins in an Austrian café. It was in that café that Bluma Zeigarnik, a young Lithuanian psychology student, met with her professor. And it was there that one of them noticed something unusual about the waiters. These waiters memorised their customers’...
by arunaway | Sep 11, 2016 | Learning Agility
If you’re not one of the 20 million or so people who have taken the ‘Awareness Test’, it’s definitely worth a few minutes of your time…As you can see, you can’t always trust your brain. It doesn’t give us an accurate image of what’s out in the world… it can’t really....
by arunaway | Sep 11, 2016 | Innovation, Learning Agility
In 1996 a simple experiment using chocolate & radishes created a new understanding about willpower. Roy Baumeister and his colleagues gave participants a plate full of chocolate and radishes. They were then split into three groups, each with different...
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