Posts Tagged ‘Learning’
Awareness Is The Outcome
Awareness is treated like a task to be completed, measured, and filed away. But real awareness doesn’t arrive on a schedule or live inside a dashboard. It shows up later, under pressure, as recognition, hesitation, judgement. And if it’s not there when it matters, the work never really happened. We keep saying “awareness” as if…
Read MoreBefore Frameworks, There Were Fairytales
On why narrative beats instruction.
Read MoreAttendance Doesn’t Equal Engagement
If someone can attend your training without thinking, feeling, or changing how they behave, engagement never happened. This is about the difference… and why it matters more than completion rates ever will. Cyber teams love the word engagement. It sounds warm. Reassuring. Progressive. But nine times out of ten, what they are really measuring is…
Read MoreAttention Seeking B*tch
Why being an attention-seeker makes me better at producing outstanding cyber security training. Let’s get the title out the way first. I’ve been called an attention-seeker most of my adult life. Sometimes it’s affectionate. Sometimes it’s a joke. Sometimes it’s said with the full intent of landing as an insult and staying there. I’ve never…
Read MoreWhen Learning Becomes Real
There’s a particular kind of madness in the corporate world where we ask people to defend their company from sophisticated cyber criminals, then hand them a slide deck with clipart padlocks and a three-question quiz at the end. It’s the equivalent of teaching someone to defuse a bomb by reading aloud from a manual. And…
Read MoreAttention Before Awareness
The ignition point Attention. That’s the game. That’s the god(dess). And until we start worshipping it, every awareness campaign that we build will collapse under its own dullness. Cyber awareness isn’t failing because employees are careless, stupid, or “the weakest link”. It’s failing because we’re not competing for their attention. Not even trying, half the…
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