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		<title>The Agile Manifesto Translated for Instructional Designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I worked with a teammate to do a presentation on agile for instructional designers. It was a fun presentation to prepare for and also learn some things along the way. We used the book Agile L&#38;D by Nadal Dank to read up on the topics and, of course, use our own experiences. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How I&#8217;m Using Performance Support In The Flow Of Work At Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prior to last year, my world was project-based. That means I was given the task of supporting teammates in their journey to learn a specific topic. That&#8217;s typically a new project that IT was launching and people needed training to use it right. I know, you could say that if it was easy enough to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Experimenting With ChatGPT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been experimenting with ChatGPT on and off for the past month with varying success. I&#8217;m sure for some types of training it could be useful, but overall for what I do, it&#8217;s a novelty. One of my favorite things to do to make training a bit more exciting is to add a little humor. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Less Is More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What motto do you live by? Lately I&#8217;ve been focusing a great deal on the less is more way of living. I don&#8217;t mean saying it and then living by the more is more motto either. Saying one thing but doing another seems to be popular. When I say less is more, it resonates with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m  Going (Want) To Write A Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve wanted to write a book for a long time, but I&#8217;m still no closer to actually doing it. Before anybody writes a book, they should have a pretty clear goal. I don&#8217;t have a goal or even an idea. So, writing a book at this point would be a waste of time. That doesn&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Find Your Why &#8211; Business Book Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 07:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The latest business book I finished is Find Your Why by Simon Sinek with David Mead &#38; Peter Docker. This book was not really content that should have been a book, though. I feel like I wasted a lot of time because of that. There were a few tidbits of information in the book but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Instructions for a Heatwave &#8211; Fun Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My most recent read was Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell which I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s named that. Aside from taking place in a London heatwave where there was water rationing and such there&#8217;s nothing heatwave about it. It was very fitting, though, because where I live (northern California) just recently had two [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Emotional Agility &#8211; Business Book Review</title>
		<link>https://www.nickleffler.com/emotional-agility-business-book-review/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There have been some good business books I&#8217;ve read and some bad. There aren&#8217;t too many in the middle which I can&#8217;t say were excellent and I also can&#8217;t say they&#8217;re bad. The most recent business-related book I&#8217;ve read, Emotional Agility by Susan David is right in the middle. It was well-written but at times [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Flight of the Sparrow &#8211; Fun Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The books I&#8217;ve been reading for the past few years have brought me all over the world and during many times. I&#8217;ve traveled by book to France, Russia, China, Canada, England, and everywhere in between from thousands of years BCE to the relatively present. My most recent book, Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In Awe &#8211; Business Book Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had a lot of high hopes for In Awe by John O&#8217;Leary but in the end it did let down a bit. It&#8217;s not because it wasn&#8217;t a good book or that it wasn&#8217;t interesting to read, it was. The reason is that what I had hoped to get out of it and what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Range of Motion &#8211; Fun Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I started Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg just after the last business book I finished. My first impression of the book was not spectacular, as I previously wrote. Just because my first impression wasn&#8217;t good with Range of Motion doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m going to stick by that incorrect impression. After finishing the entire book [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Rise Of America &#8211; Business Book Review</title>
		<link>https://www.nickleffler.com/the-rise-of-america-business-book-review/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 16th book I&#8217;ve finished this year so far is The Rise of America by Marin Katusa. This one was a business book which is all about how America is actually rising in prominence and wealth rather than declining. There are a lot of naysayers about the US declining I must admit but I&#8217;m not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Forgotten Home Child &#8211; Fun Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2021 23:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another fun book finished and another great book I do recommend everyone reads. The book is The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham and is about Home Children that were sent from England to Canada from sometime in the 1800s all the way past WWII. This particular book follows the journey of Winny from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fearless &#8211; Business Book Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2021 07:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another business book done. I finished up Fearless by Tim Kintz a few days ago but since finishing it fell on a Thursday I didn&#8217;t have a chance to write anything and don&#8217;t feel like doing so on a Friday evening. I may enjoy writing these book reviews but not enough to use my Friday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Hungry Road &#8211; Fun Book Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now back on my regular schedule of a business book then a fun book, the book I just finished recently is The Hungry Road by Marita Conlon-McKenna. It&#8217;s a spectacular book that is a fun way to learn about how the great famine in Ireland (aka in the US the Irish potato famine) actually went [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Financial Freedom &#8211; Business Book Review</title>
		<link>https://www.nickleffler.com/financial-freedom-business-book-review/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I finished another business book, Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier which is meant to help you reach a point in your finances where you can be free to do what you want. It might not mean retiring from working or not earning any more money (or it could) but rather meaning you can do what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Daytime Formal Corporate Instruction To Informal Online Course Platforms</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post isn&#8217;t about formal learning but I wanted to use that as a segue because my day job is more in the formal corporate learning space. My goal of this post is to share my newest project that I just started working on a few weeks ago and why I&#8217;m doing it. I enjoy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lives Of The Stoics &#8211; Business Book Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After my long hiatus from business reading I browsed through the business category in Apple Books for my next cheap read. I&#8217;m not sure what I found could be considered a business book but more of a living book. I chose Lives Of The Stoics by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman which really had nothing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ireland &#8211; Fun Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After reading this book for a while (it was pretty long) I finished Ireland by Frank Delaney. As I mentioned on my last book review (which was also fun) I wasn&#8217;t too sure about this book from the beginning. Well, it began to grow on me and it was a riveting tale of Ireland with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Last Runaway &#8211; Fun Book Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Leffler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This book took me to the 1850s in Ohio but the journey didn&#8217;t begin there. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier begins in England with a long journey by ship across the ocean and then by land to the destination of a small town in Ohio. I don&#8217;t envy the people of those times who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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