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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

What are your ideas for us to try to do new things, develop new products, design new ways of reaching the market? And short, weekly conversations between managers and their direct reports would be far more than is typical in organizations today and could go a long way to support learning. What is our business, and what should it be?

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

To survive and thrive today, industries need innovation which is essentially about learning. Innovation is how to use products and services in new ways that rapidly respond to changing market demands and create new products and services. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets.

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Learning delivery is important, but strategic alignment between learning and the business should be a key focus. Lack of in-depth understanding of corporate strategies: Many corporate strategies are stated in generic terms, such as “capture 15 percent of the industry’s widget market.” Or, “generate 1,000 more leads a month.”

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Effective Instructional Videos: 4 Tips You Need to Steal From Marketing

TechSmith Camtasia

Marketers have been successful in using videos to capture the attention of consumers. So, why not borrow help from marketing to drive business results? Let’s take a look at some best practices marketers use to create videos, and how you can use them to create effective instructional videos. Center in on the learning experience.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Manufacturers compete for market share and for talent. Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Garvin & Edmondson, 2008).

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

By “learning” I mean acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that help individuals, teams, and whole organizations improve performance. An engineer in a prototype department of a manufacturer learns how to operate a 3D printer. A hospital learns how to put the “wow” in customer service.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

Social media allows restaurants, hotels, airlines, and travel services to market directly to us based on our personal interests. In a training culture, most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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