9 Quotes & Sayings By Marcia Conner

Marcia Conner is a writer, speaker, and consultant based in Chicago. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Essence Magazine, Readers Digest, Reader's Digest Self-Improvement Series, and many other publications. Her first book was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2004. Marcia holds a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and has taught writing at the University of Chicago School of Business for 20 years Read more

She lives in Chicago with her husband and two sons.

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We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us. Marcia Conner
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Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before. Marcia Conner
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By bringing together people who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, social media has the potential to transform the workplace into an environment where learning is as natural as it is powerful. Marcia Conner
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Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey–often an unfolding story–and leaving a path for others to follow. Marcia Conner
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In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training. Marcia Conner
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In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals. Marcia Conner
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Messenger molecules–known as peptides, which were known to send and register information around the brain–are also in organs throughout your body, including your intestines, stomach, heart, liver, kidneys, and spine. These organs also send and register information. Marcia Conner
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Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level. Marcia Conner