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#ATD2019 wrapped up last week in beautiful Washington, DC and the Totara team welcomed delegates to the Totara Village to speak with ecosystem partners who were exhibiting alongside us:\u00a0eThink Educatio<\/a><\/strong>, Synege<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and GO1<\/a><\/strong>, with special appearances from our product extension partners, Motrai<\/a><\/strong>, and Zoola Analytics<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at what happened at ATD\u00a0ICE 2019…<\/p>\n

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Oprah\u2019s Keynote and the question of trusting your gut<\/h3>\n

After the high expectations of hearing Barack Obama last year at ATD 2018 in San Diego, We were excited to hear Oprah Winfrey kick off the event. While the line-up didn\u2019t start at 5 am to score a seat, the room was still full of delegates who were hyped to hear Oprah share her insights on leadership, being of service and trusting your gut.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat I understand and know for sure is that we share a common language: truth. We all want to live out the truest expression of ourselves as human beings.\u201d – Oprah Winfrey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oprah reiterated the need to trust your gut when making decisions, as she believes that often your intuition is correct, even going so far as to say that things have gone wrong in her life when she didn\u2019t listen to her gut. While this could anecdotally resonate with some, a few members of the Totara team left Oprah\u2019s keynote scratching our heads at this.<\/p>\n

Trusting your gut\u00a0is a tricky minefield\u00a0as it relies on cues rather than details; it\u2019s seen as somewhat of a romantic way to quickly simplify a decision,\u00a0\u201cintuition…can be highly influenced by emotion. It\u2019s fast, and its conclusions arrive without analysis.\u201d But as Katherine Ramsland, Ph.d. states<\/a>, \u201calthough analytical reasoning is slower, it offers perspective, along with awareness of a greater range of factors. The result of careful, objective analysis is usually more reliable [than intuition].\u201d<\/p>\n

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So based on a number of factors, including all the experiences, conditioning, knowledge, cultural and emotional biases that have been built up within me\u00a0throughout my entire life – I will inevitably have a completely different gut feeling about a situation than someone else in the same spot.\u00a0 So with all of this in mind, It was surprising to hear that Oprah not only pushed the idea of trusting your gut, but she also didn’t address\u00a0the personal unconscious (or conscious) biases we all carry with us and how\u00a0these can actually affect the decisions we make (whether trusting your gut or not). Maneuvering around these biases is not easy, especially in the workplace.\u00a0 For a woman with such a great platform at ATD ICE 2019 and the power to change mindsets, unfortunately, I\u00a0 I left Oprah\u2019s keynote slightly disappointed.<\/p>\n

Thankfully though, our content partners GO1<\/a><\/strong> were onsite to offer some perspective on managing and tackling unconscious bias, and decision making in the workplace by showing off some of the courses available in the GO1 premium library now available through Totara Learn 12. Lucky\u00a0ATD 2019 delegates\u00a0who start a new Totara subscription will get $3000 worth of GO1 Premium content courses.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s crazy to keep waiting for the old<\/h3>\n

We can\u2019t keep up with how many times we saw eyes roll, or heard talk of inflexible contracts being echoed, \u201cI only have x amount of years left!\u201d <\/em>when we asked delegates about the learning platform they\u2019re currently using. Two very large proprietary vendor names kept coming up – as did the complaints, where I recall delegates telling me \u201cwe\u2019ve been asking for more comprehensive tools for measuring analytics – it\u2019s been two years and we still haven\u2019t seen anything being developed by HQ.\u201d<\/em> Or my favourite – \u201cit just doesn\u2019t do what we need to do and we can\u2019t keep waiting for these features to come out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

One thing we know for sure is that technology has brought us many great things \u2014 including new learning solutions. Totara<\/a><\/strong> is built on an open source framework that allows users to iterate as fast as your business needs, so you can stay agile and flexible for today\u2019s crazy market. In fact, waiting around for contracts to expire or for proprietary solutions to catch up to what the market needs and wants is crazy. Users don\u2019t have to get locked into rigid contracts anymore. You can be free. You can have the freedom to learn.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joining a community of learning innovation means more sharing, more success<\/h3>\n

ATD 2019 showed us what it means to be a part of larger talent development, learning and development community. Friends are made, ideas are shared, and it’s a joint experience as we look\u00a0for solutions together to solve common challenges.\u00a0 Our time at ATD demonstrated how advantageous this is. Our partners are experts in Totara and know how to best utilise the system to meet your organisational goals, they shared insights into areas like learning design, gamification, analytics and more at the inaugural Totara Theater held in the Totara Village.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Totara user,\u00a0\u00a0JLG Industries<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0talked on Day 2 about how they established a Totara Learn extended enterprise instance<\/a><\/strong> in their case study session, and eThink spoke about how they helped Vistaprint\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>create a platform to support over 3,000 sales specialists. Our aim in bringing in our experts and our customers is to let others know – you don’t have to go at this alone. Partnering with the right vendor and Totara partner, means you can achieve your goals, no matter how lucrative or innovative your needs may be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As our CEO Richard Wyles mentioned, “we make [Totara]\u00a0for freedom.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Here at\u00a0Totara, we enable L&D professionals to be in control, drawing on the collaborative power of a global community of innovators<\/a>,<\/strong> creators, and problem-solvers who all have shared goals, but differentiated needs. Every single person involved not only in the Totara ecosystem<\/a><\/strong> but in the broader industry helps shape the future of learning technology.<\/p>\n

Events like ATD 2019, are\u00a0great because it helps get your voices heard within the community. We’ll always hear both good and bad feedback about learning platforms on the market, but for us, we take that feedback and bring it back to HQ to adapt our platform to suit the demand of the market. We want to ensure our community gets the support and software they need to succeed – that’s the freedom and flexibility of enterprise open source learning solutions like Totara.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Interested in learning more about Totara?\u00a0<\/h3>\n

Open source is the new norm, see if Totara is right for your business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Contact us<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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