Articles by Todd Maddox

Great leadership requires cognitive, behavioral and situational skills, and leadership development programs must address all of these needs.

When done right, emotional learning centers in the brain can be effectively engaged with scenario-​based storytelling using video or animation.

Critical thinking about training can lead to critical gains in business.

Critical thinking about training can lead to critical gains in business.

Scenario-based microlearning content can effectively teach hard and soft skills and develop situational awareness.

Corporate L&D can affect behavior change if it uses tools that are interactive in real-time and that effectively recruit the behavioral skills learning system in the brain.

Corporate L&D can affect behavior change if it uses tools that are interactive in real-time and that effectively recruit the behavioral skills learning system in the brain.

Leaderboards do not lead to healthy competition in all people. In fact, leaderboards are unhealthy for anyone with a cooperation-driven personality.

Leaderboards do not lead to healthy competition in all people. In fact, leaderboards are unhealthy for anyone with a cooperation-driven personality.

While microlearning is effective for training hard skills, one learning scientist says the science behind microlearning proves it’s not the best way to teach soft skills.