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65 Quotes About Workplace Learning & Development
Learning professionals have never been more important. After all, they now have to contend with a widening skills gap, digital transformation, distracted learners and a dwindling budget.
It's time for some inspiration. We've collected 65 (yes, 65!) of our favourite quotes about workplace learning. These quotes cover training, development and instruction in all forms. We'll hear from thought leaders and visionaries who understand this space like no one else.
These quotes are the ideal source of motivation for learning and development teams, instructors and trainers. That said, there is plenty of wisdom in there for the rest of us as well. And if you're hungry for more quotes, then there's more to be had:
Ready for some workplace wisdom? Then let's dive in!
1. "The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay." — Henry Ford
2. "An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." — Jack Welch
3. "The single biggest driver of business impact is the strength of an organization's learning culture." — Josh Bersin
4. "We complain that learners want to be spoon-fed, but then we won't let them hold the spoon." — Jane Bozarth
5. "We need to bring learning to people, instead of people to learning." — Elliott Masie
6. "Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to." — Richard Branson
7. "When it comes to the design of effective learning experiences, one provocative question is worth a hundred proclamations." — Bernard Bull
8. "You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it." — Seymour Papert
9. "The most profound words will remain unread unless you can keep the learner engaged." — James Bates
10. "Learning experiences are like journeys. The journey starts where the learning is now, and ends where the learner is successful." — Julie Dirksen
11. "There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them." — John Maxwell
12. "We don't care what people know, we care what they do. It's all about performance." — Michael Allen
13. "Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning." — Peter Senge
14. "One of the most important areas we can develop as professionals is competence in accessing and sharing knowledge." — Connie Malamed
15. "If you continue training the same way you've always trained, don't expect to get better results." — Jim Crapko
16. "Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field." — Brian Tracy
17. "The goal of education is understanding; the goal of training is performance." — Frank Bell
18. "The best development programmes change the way people see themselves." — John Bright
19. "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." — Harvey S. Firestone
20. "What's going to make a difference to your organization is not the ability to recite facts… It's the ability to make better decisions." — Clark Quinn
21. "Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance." — Peter Block
22. "To unlock the true potential of eLearning to train successful employees, it needs to be people-centered." — Simon Greany
23. "Throw out some of that instructional design language and speak like a human being in conversation with another human being." — Cammy Bean
24. "L&D maturity… will be defined by the way that we take personal responsibility and step out in courage to act on the basics that we know work." — Laura Overton
25. "We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time." — Charles Jennings
26. "Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit." — William Pollard
27. "If learners think it looks bad, you may have lost a good percentage of the battle in getting them to pay attention." — Patti Shank
28. "Learning is a process not an event." — Elliott Masie
29. "There are no refunds; learners cannot get their time back if we waste it." — Michael Allen
30. "Stop thinking the answer to everything is to develop a course." — Jane Bozarth
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Workplace Learning Quotes: Honourable Mentions 31. "Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure." — Amos Bronson Alcott
32. "If you make it matter, it sticks. If not, it slides. Emotion is not important to learning. Emotion is learning." — Nick Shackleton-Jones
33. "Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop." — Peter Drucker
34. "The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." — Robert Greene
35. "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." — Warren Buffett
36. "Often it hardly matters how good the course, class, materials or instructor is. If the organization does not support learning, then training programmes will be wasted." — Josh Bersin
37. "Our work gets better when we connect and collaborate with others, as does our impact on engagement, learning and performance." — Michelle Ockers
38. "Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience." — David Kolb
39. "There's no experience like on-the-job training." — Hank Azaria
40. "The most effective, successful professionals are constantly learning, they take the time to apply what they have learned, and they continually work to improve themselves." — Joel Gardner
41. "Learning is a process to deliver performance, it is not a final outcome." — Charles Jennings
42. "A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future." — Peter Senge
43. "The basic DNA of good learning experiences is trying to do something and getting feedback." — Julie Dirksen
44. "People don't want prettier or more interactive courses. They want more relevant solutions to their problems." — Jane Hart
45. "Boring and effective are mutually exclusive attributes in learning." — Michael Allen
46. "Talking about people as learners is like talking about people as breathers." — Nick Shackleton-Jones
47. "Standardized courses are artifacts of a time when connections were few and information was scarce. That time has passed." — Harold Jarche
48. "Learning and innovation go hand-in-hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow." — William Pollard
49. "If you want people to have fun, give them the day off. If you want them to learn, create engaging instruction." — Karl Kapp
50. "People will only want to engage if it is relevant to their needs or helps them solve problems." — Jane Hart
51. "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking." — R. Buckminster Fuller
52. "When it comes to organizational learning, if it ain't fun, it won't get done." — Juliette Denny
53. "Don't push growth: remove the factors limiting growth." — Peter Senge
54. "The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Nobody can tax it or take it away from you." — Warren Buffett
55. "Don't think of what it costs to train your employees… Think what it costs not to train them." — Shep Hyken
56. "Create the culture of learning that you wish you'd had." — Laura Vater
57. "Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them." — Jack Canfield
58. "Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience." — Denis Waitley
59. "The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning." — John Dewey
60. "An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company's success framework." — Ananya Birla
61. "Nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies." — Lawrence Bossidy
62. "The fourth industrial revolution continues to transform the world of work. Reskilling and upskilling have never been more important." — Rashim Mogha
63. "Fostering an ideal learning atmosphere means giving learners confidence, a supportive push and the tools to help them learn." — Caroline Ford
64. "When it comes to eLearning, content means everything. If eLearning content is not masterfully designed, all the rest will just go down the drain." — Christopher Pappas
65. "A huge factor in ensuring we tackle the skills gap at scale is by meeting employees where they're at." — Caitlyn Beattie
Final WordThere we have it. A selection of quotes from business titans, industry experts and learning specialists. We hope this list has got you fired up and ready to engage your learners!
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Bank Of Canada's Tiff Macklem: 10 Quotes From Today's Interest Rate Announcement
The Bank of Canada held interest rates steady at 5 per cent on Wednesday in a widely anticipated decision. But central bank also said inflationary risks have increased and repeated that it is prepared to further raise rates in the future, "if needed."
After 10 interest rate increases during the past year and a half, the bank says supply and demand in the Canadian economy are "now approaching balance" – a prerequisite for stabilizing prices.
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem and senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers held a press conference after the rate announcement. Here are 10 key quotes.
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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem takes part in a news conference in Ottawa, on Oct. 25.PATRICK DOYLE/Reuters
Macklem on food inflation: 'We should see some continued easing in food price inflation'"There's no question, food price inflation has particularly affected lower-income, more vulnerable members of society. This is an important reason why we've got to get inflation down.
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"If you look at the input – if you look at agricultural prices – they have come down a fair amount, and you are seeing food price inflation come down with a lag. The latest year-over-year number is about 6 per cent. On a three-month basis, it's just under 4 per cent. So, I mean what that's telling you is we should see some continued easing in food price inflation. And I think that will be a relief to all Canadians."
Macklem on future hikes: If core inflation comes down 'we probably won't have to raise interest rates'"We want to see clear evidence that core inflation is moving down. That will give us more confidence that headline inflation will move down towards our target on a sustainable basis … In assessing that, we have two preferred measures of core inflation – CPI-trim, CPI-median – we're going to be watching those very closely."
"There's a few guideposts we use that we know affect underlying inflation. Those are the balance between demand and supply in the economy. Wage growth at 4 to 5 per cent, with virtually no productivity growth, is not consistent with getting inflation back to our target. Corporate pricing behaviour: When inflation went up a lot, we saw companies were increasing their prices more frequently, and they were increasing them by more. That has started to normalize but it's still not back to normal."
"If those things are starting to normalize … we probably won't have to raise interest rates. But we've been very deliberate: we're leaving the door open to further interest rate increases because there is uncertainty about that, and if we see inflationary pressures persist, we are prepared to raise our interest rate further."
Macklem on weakness in Canadian dollar: 'We've got to rely more on interest rates'"What we're not getting [from high interest rates] is we're not getting the direct effect of an appreciation to lower important inflation. So that does mean, everything else equal, we've got to rely more on interest rates. So that is something we've had to take into account."
Macklem on 'stagflation': 'That's not where we are now'"It's not a word I would use. I grew up in the 1970s. Stagflation to me is a period of high inflation and high unemployment. That's not where we are now. Inflation is well above our target, it's too high. But it's not high like it was in the '70s. And the unemployment rate actually is quite low, 5.5 per cent is below historical norms."
Macklem on government spending: 'The potential output in the economy is growing'"Our best estimate is the potential output in the economy is growing at about 2 per cent. So supply in the economy is expanding around 2 per cent. Government spending is growing at 2 per cent or less. It's not adding more demand. It's not adding faster demand, and supply is growing. So, it's not adding sort of undue inflationary pressures."
"If you look at our forecast in the Monetary Policy Report, what you can see is that when we add up the spending plans in the budgets of all levels of government – provincial, federal – for next year, we expect government spending to grow at about two-and-a-half percent. So, what that means is if all those spending plans are realized, government spending will be adding to demand more than supply is growing. And in an environment where we're trying to moderate spending and get inflation down, that's not helpful."
Carolyn Rogers on housing: 'There is a structural lack of supply in the Canadian housing market'"Normally, house prices move pretty lockstep with interest rate increases… As interest rates come down, house prices go up a bit. And they'll come off as interest rates come back up."
"We haven't seen that same dynamic. [House prices] they've come off a bit this time … but we're not seeing the decline in house prices that we would expect."
"There is a structural lack of supply in the Canadian housing market. So really until we address that, that supply issue, interest rates on their own are not going to help us get back to a housing affordability situation or solution. So we're really pleased to see the degree of focus that governments are putting on this issue right now."
Macklem on high energy prices: 'These increases in oil prices, they tend to go up and then after a period they tend to come back down'"Typically, we would tend to largely look through [energy price spikes], and the reason for that is that it takes time for monetary policy to work. These increases in oil prices, they tend to go up and then after a period they tend to come back down. Some of the time monetary policy is really working, the shocks going away."
"However, that's not the situation we're in right now. Inflation has been above the target for two years…. Near-term inflation expectations are still above the target… Corporate pricing behaviour is not normal... If we saw evidence that higher energy prices were passing through to broader prices because of higher transportation costs, for example, that would be a signal that that increase in oil prices is starting to feed through the rest of the economy and that would really be something of concern to us."
Macklem on recession fears: 'It's not a recession. It's low positive growth'"It's not a recession, it's low positive growth. Having said that, if you're predicting low positive growth, you can't rule out that … we're going get some small negative numbers. So, there could certainly be two or three small negative quarters."
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"When people say the word recession, I think what they have in mind is a steep contraction of output and a large rise in unemployment. That's not what we're forecasting. I'll just close by saying, you know, we've been saying for some time that the path to a soft landing is narrow. And in this projection, that path has gotten narrower."
Macklem on corporate pricing behaviour: 'Companies are passing through higher input costs more quickly than usual'"Corporate pricing behaviour is not normal. What we've seen is companies are passing through higher input costs more quickly than usual to final prices. So consumers are feeling it right away. Against that environment, we would need to be more cautious than normal about seeing through it. And what we'd be particularly focused on is the impacts on core inflation."
Tiff Macklem on core inflation: 'We need to see clear downward momentum in core inflation'"To be confident the policy rate is high enough to get inflation back to 2 per cent, we need to see downward momentum in our measures of core inflation."
"Core inflation on a year-over-year basis has come down, but if you look over the last good eight months or so, on a three month basis, there's really been very little downward momentum. We need to see clear downward momentum in core inflation. And there are a number of indicators that we're watching closely."
"We're going to take our decisions one at a time, based on the best available data and information at the time of that decision."
Postgame Quotes: New Orleans Saints At Indianapolis Colts2023 NFL Week 8
SAINTS COACH DENNIS ALLEN
"I was proud of the way our team fought and competed today. We did a lot of good things. Obviously, there are some things that we have to get cleaned up. I think that's a good football team that we played, but I thought our guys responded to, call it the mini-bye or whatever, and came back and we did some good things. It was a good team win."
Overall, how excited or how happy are you about how the offense played overall?
"Yeah, really excited – really happy about it. I've been saying that I felt like we were close and we were doing some good things. I think it's the first time since 2018 that the Saints offense has had three games of over 400 yards. So, there's been good things that we've done. We just haven't been able to capitalize on all those things. Obviously, we were much better in the red zone in this game, and that when you're scoring touchdowns in the red area instead of kicking field goals, that usually puts your points up there a lot more. So thought we had some good, explosive plays. I thought we ran the ball effectively. So there were a lot of things to like with what we did offensively. And yet I think there were still some plays out there. There are always things you can get better at."
What do you think was so effective about running the ball in the red zone?
"It's not a really big secret. When you fricking block them and you hit the right hole, then usually it's effective. And if you don't block them, then it's usually not very effective. So, I thought we did a better job of blocking them down there today."
How big of a boost does Taysom Hill give you down there in that area?
"Yeah. Look, he's been highly effective for us. That package down there has been effective for us. So, we gotta get into that position a lot more often, and then I think we'll utilize that package as we see fit."
How do you think Derek Carr ran the offense today?
"I thought he ran the offense well. I thought there were a lot of really good things that he did. I thought there was a mix of huddle, tempo, a lot of different things that we incorporated into the offense. I thought Pete (Carmichael) and those guys on the offensive staff, I thought they did a hell of a job putting together a great plan. I thought our players went out and executed it. And that's really kind of the secret to having success is put together a good plan and guys go out and execute that plan."
He seemed to get rid of the ball quicker today. Did you feel that? Did he feel more comfortable?
"Yeah, I thought he did a good job of reading some things out and getting the ball out to the right people. I know we're going to look back at the tape and there are going to be a few plays where we'd love to have it back, but I thought overall – what I thought about our offense I felt like there was a rhythm to what we were doing offensively, and that was good to see."
Can you elaborate a little on the illness you guys were dealing with this week?
"Yeah, look. It's no fun. It's a GI bug that's kind of been going through the group a little bit. We had a few players that kind of popped up with it over the last call it 24 hours. So hopefully it kind of runs its course. It's kind of a 12- to 24-hour where you don't feel very good for a little while and then you kind of get back to normal."
I assume that was why Marcus Maye was out. When you have a guy like Jordan Howden who is playing as well as he is as a rookie how much does that help you guys?
"Yeah, look, the biggest thing with Marcus (Maye) is that he really wasn't able to practice this week. I think that's a great thing about having some depth in our secondary is that we feel confident that guys can step in there and play and perform at an acceptable level. I'll look at the tape and kind of determine exactly how well he did. I know there are a few plays that didn't sit well with me, but I think overall he did a pretty nice job."
Did you have a few guys actually play sick today?
"Yes. I couldn't tell you exactly what the number, but there was a handful of guys that weren't feeling great."
What's the biggest area of growth Rashid Shaheed has had to develop into a more all-around receiver this year?
"I don't think we're there yet, you know? I think there's still a lot of meat left on the bone in terms of what we need to be able to do and what he can do. Obviously, his explosiveness down the field is probably his biggest trait. And his ability to – like I can think in the last few weeks Houston being one, the play today, where he goes and makes a play on the football and high points the ball. So, there's some of that that I'm seeing that I really like. I think it's all the little bitty intricacies and the little bitty details that he's still gotta improve on, but his speed and explosiveness makes him really difficult to cover."
He's got like six receptions of 40 or more yards this year. That seems pretty abnormal.
"Yeah. I would think so. I couldn't tell you who the players are in our league, but I bet you it's a small number, and I bet there's a lot of recognizable names in terms of guys that have that many 40-plus-yard receptions. And, look, not only does that benefit us, us being able to get the ball to him down the field, but it opens up a lot of other things in the passing game when you got a guy that has that type of threat."
How big was the throw to him from Taysom Hill?
"Yeah, that was huge. That was huge. And so, it was one that went our way, which was good to see. I don't know that I've stood up here and said that very often, so it was good to one."
Did Derek Carr and this offense need a game like this?
"I think we all needed a game like this. There's been a lot of talk about the offense, but like we needed a win, you know, and we got one. We got one as a team. And so, there was a lot to like. There were some things that weren't up to our standard. And so, look, we're going to enjoy this and then we gotta get back to work. We got another big game this week against Chicago coming into our place."
You have done this a couple times now in a tight game, fourth quarter, big third down play and going for a big vertical play down the field.
"Well, look, I think it was third-and-13 on that particular play. So, it was going to take something down the field. We got a one-on-one matchup with (Rashid) Shaheed, and we took the one-on-one match up – Shaheed won."
Pete Carmichael talked earlier this week about calling the number of plays for certain situations and simplifying the offense. Can you speak to the impact that might have had today?
"Well, look, I would just say that I felt like our guys were much more on point with the execution of the plan this week, and so it just stands to reason that if you have 25 plays instead of 50 plays, it's a lot easier to be on point with all the little bitty details that go along with each play. So, yeah, I thought that was part of the success."
When did you guys come up with the idea for Khalen Saunders to play some offense for you?
"Well, probably initially when Adam Prentice went down. And so, then you start looking at, okay, who on your team can kind of fill that role in certain situations? And, look, he thinks he's a running back anyway. So, we put him in there and make him feel like he's a running back and then we don't give him the ball. We make him go block somebody. So, yeah, that's pretty much the inspiration for why we put him back there."
Is there a nickname for that package?
"No. There's not a nickname for that package. It's just a normal goal line package."
Chris Olave had rough moments and bounced back there in the latter stages of the game. Where is he right now mentally?
"Yeah. Look, I think he's in a good spot. I mean, you know, there's ups and downs wit
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