The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The culture that underpins a managing minds approach must support and encourage an ongoing and collective discovery, sharing, and appli­cation of knowledge and skills at the individual, team, and organization levels. How do you know if your organization has the DNA that predisposes it to learning? What are the metrics?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes.

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Actio Learning

JANUARY 27, 2022

[updated from the original publication of February 2019} We find the challenge of designing, and engineering, effective blended learning experiences exciting and compelling. What is blended learning? The term blended learning is often used synonymously with hybrid and multi-modal learning. In his view, blended learning ".

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In a learning culture , formal training is just one of many methods used to facilitate employee learning. In a learning culture, we start with the performance goal and then select the mix of methods that will help employees acquire and retain the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs they need in order to achieve those goals.

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Docebo

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The following is part two of an excerpt from a knowledge brief by Aberdeen Group : the brief discusses the role that technology plays in the knowledge creation process and the ways in which Learning 3.0 concepts can help accelerate the “spiral” of knowledge creation in your organization. Socialization: Tacit-to-Tacit. vs. 10.1%).

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Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

I spent the greater part of the weekend mulling over the practice of working out loud, what makes some folks adopt the habit with ease while others struggle, and what could be some of the possible enabling factors that support working out loud. In this post, I want to focus on the support and environment needed to get people started.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 18, 2014

ABOUT CLARK QUINN (Learning Technology Strategist): Clark Quinn, Ph.D., helps organizations align technology with how we think, work, and learn. How do we ensure learning faster than everyone else? Learnnovators: What are the latest trends in organizational learning & development, and performance support?

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Learnnovators

MAY 11, 2015

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. The catch is that “social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced. Organizations like Kodak, Borders and Blockbuster faded into irrelevance.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. The MOOC format is primarily learner-driven and learner-directed.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 16, 2014

ABOUT CLARK QUINN (Learning Technology Strategist): Clark Quinn, Ph.D., helps organizations align technology with how we think, work, and learn. How do we ensure learning faster than everyone else? Learnnovators: What are the latest trends in organizational learning & development, and performance support?

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. The Internet Time Alliance , which he chairs, helps corporations and governments use networks to accelerate performance. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

And involving stakeholders ensures that their viewpoints are included, and as such facilitates their support. Creating job aids for ourselves and other forms of support is a quality control procedure. Include assignments that review other people’s performance in the area, to help the learners develop self-evaluation skills.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. Hence, these require learners to “pull” their own learning.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. The Internet Time Alliance , which he chairs, helps corporations and governments use networks to accelerate performance. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.

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Litmos

JANUARY 16, 2019

There’s no claim that this list is comprehensive, but it is grounded in a ‘performance ecosystem ’ perspective. There are other causes of performance problems in organizations besides skill gaps. Performance support and social networks are two other key elements, and don’t neglect them. Don’t stop with courses.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

What are some of the primary and secondary functions that a business expects from a learning consultant? I am interested in finding out if there are any defined set of tasks that a learning consultant would do to enable organizational learning. I understand that the need differs from organization to organization.

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Learnnovators

MAY 10, 2015

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. The catch is that “social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced. Organizations like Kodak, Borders and Blockbuster faded into irrelevance.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 23, 2015

Are you trying to find an eLearning consultant who would help develop learning and knowledge management solutions for your organization? Take charge of your organization’s learning needs before you appoint an external consultant. People are the stakeholders as well as employees of your organization.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 23, 2015

Are you trying to find an eLearning consultant who would help develop learning and knowledge management solutions for your organization? Take charge of your organization’s learning needs before you appoint an external consultant. People are the stakeholders as well as employees of your organization.

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Matrix

MARCH 17, 2016

Employees need to learn and develop themselves if they want to have thriving and flourishing careers. Companies need to learn how to attract the best talent and how to clearly align individual learning objectives with the ones of the organization. They turn to technology for better access to learning materials. “

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Clark Quinn and I led a discussion on Reinventing Organizational Learning at LearnTrends this morning. Moderator (Clark Quinn): world as biosphere, org as performance ecosystem. Moderator (Clark Quinn): @kelly, yes Allison's rightly has been on Perf support for a long time. tmast: yeah. Moderator (Clark Quinn): or [link].

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Jane Hart

JULY 1, 2016

Formal education and testing isn’t the key to improving performance. It’s the ‘70’ and ‘20’ learning – learning in context with plenty of practice – that that has most impact.” larger organizations to work more independently. Designing Learning Campaigns and Learning Challenges 19 June 2016.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning. Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010 Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. learning is a mix of formal and informal , not one or the other. Not even close.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2012

There is a core set of frameworks that support the way organizational learning and development is conducted. The world of mobile and social learning and Google, however, requires new measures. A survey by the Educational Development Center in 1996 found that 70 percent of workplace learning is informal.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. The learned worker enjoys the fulfillment of a job well done, the rewards that go with high performance, and the accumulation of marketable skills. Supplementing self-directed learning with mentors and experts. Free agents.

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Xyleme

JUNE 5, 2010

Today, I’m going to talk about learning content management (ECM) and enterprise content management (LCM). I’ve already written about this extensively in my Plugging Learning into ECM white paper (also available for download at the resource library section of our web site).

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Learnnovators

APRIL 14, 2015

The OpenStack project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. On March 1, 2011, IBM announced the IBM SmartCloud framework to support Smarter Planet.” While Watson and Siri may seem far removed from our task of designing learning programs, the reality is they are not.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 14, 2015

The OpenStack project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. On March 1, 2011, IBM announced the IBM SmartCloud framework to support Smarter Planet.” – Wikipedia. While Watson and Siri may seem far removed from our task of designing learning programs, the reality is they are not.

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Learnnovators

JULY 29, 2015

In another related HBR article with an interesting title, We Should Want Robots to Take Some Jobs , the writer makes a valid point: “ In the task-centered economy humans have no value beyond the tasks they perform. Certain skills will become fundamental to thriving in future organizations. That is the topic for another post.

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