The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 21, 2012

Learners are: 1) individual employees/members/volunteers; 2) work teams; 3) the enterprise as a whole (company, nonprofit, government agency); and 4) the communities in which the organization lives and interacts. How to engage external community in mutual learning and change. . Chart of community pressures on organization.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

The impact of technology, globalization, ubiquitous connectivity, remote work and distributed work teams, and economy of individuals to name a few drivers have changed the face of workplace learning and performance dramatically. Refer to Ross Dawson’s The Future of Work for a detailed overview.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 20, 2009

My primary interest here are the methods and tools that allow us to work better as part of remote work teams. In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 17, 2008

Important to teach students collaborative skills to prepare for work. Teams are goal-directed. Wikis make it very clear who did what–always a problem with group work for grading. They get complaints that their website information is out of date but that the wiki information keeps changing. Collaboration Tools.

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 4, 2021

Think that you’re better off without project time tracking tools for your remote work teams? These surprising stats may change your mind. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Working and learning in Stages 1-4 is based upon a Taylorist , industrial age mindset. Although the advent of e-technology in the late 1990s changed businesses into e-businesses, this was essentially about automating existing business thinking and practices. Supporting work teams. Little interest in this area of work.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

It's affecting fundamental change in how people expect to communicate, both with each other and the companies they do business with. Once a work team agrees that will be how they collaborate on a given piece of content, it becomes very inefficient for an individual within the team to not adopt the same technology.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 20, 2015

Chess has changed from people playing people, thru people playing computers and computers playing computers, to computer-human pairs playing other computer-human pairs. The best competitors aren’t the best chess players or the best programs, but the best pairs , that is the player and computer that best know how to work together.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 29, 2015

If we take the implications of the Coherent Organization to heart, we realize that the components include the work teams, the communities of practice (increasingly I think of it as a community of improvement ), and the broader network. The first is the notion of ‘trojan mice’, e.g. small steps rather than a epic change.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the Coherent Organization model that we (the ITA ) came up with, it talks about how work teams are fed by and feed up to communities as they too feed up to and are fed from social networks. And while this is all good, it may not be completely clear. So I tried to take a pass at representing it another way.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

There are changes we need to make: We need to address broken training models. Training focuses on problems - Development focuses on solutions You may or may not agree with these binaries. They may represent extremes. However I think Myatt is right. We need to get better at matching our people-development solutions to specific contexts.

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Paradiso

MAY 25, 2018

It helps to define and manage competencies of each user or work team. It is clear that Learning Management Systems changed the forms of education in many ways, the LMS for training purposes gives both teacher and student the closest view they can get of the process. Competencies Demo from Paradiso Solutions on Vimeo.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Work Skills Changing Most of us who used to use these things know somewhat know that they really aren't in use anymore. In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. And, it's not just access to information that's changed.

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Marcia Conner

OCTOBER 3, 2013

” What leaped out at me most with this response is that most people will never achieve that dream without all of us making some big changes. We live in a world where business-as-usual means working through office politics and around hierarchy before even getting to do our jobs–let alone the rest of what we know needs to be done.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In January 2016 issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine , Kate Iverson quotes Dearborn: Justifying and inciting change in an engineering organization like SAP requires hard metrics. The pace of change is making it difficult for your organization to compete effectively in the marketplace unless the organization is constantly learning.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The underlying concept is that organizations and their people are members of many different types of networks, for example, communities of practice, the company social network, and close-knit collaborative work teams. Harold made a key addition: Work teams collaborate; learning networks cooperate; communities of practice do both.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

In a leadership environment rife with change and opportunity, learning leaders proactively seek better ways to augment the development experience. ” or “What would help you to better see the importance of your work?” Am I treating those who work for me the way I would like to be treated?

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Stick to your normal workwear and work habits – if you always change to non-work clothes when you get home then continue this practice when you stop work and close the office down for the evening. It will change, so be aware and mindful of the changes. Then change it. Be realistic.

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isEazy

JUNE 8, 2023

Most working teams are made up of professionals with specialized skills and knowledge, each of whom plays an important role in the day to day running of an organization. However, when one of those team members is absent, the company’s productivity can suffer.

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isEazy

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In a constantly changing labor market and the ever-growing technological evolution, it’s crucial to have a competitive work team within your company. For this reason, in addition to attracting top professionals to your business, it’s essential always to aim to implement continuous training plans.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Setting up a SharePoint for a community or work team is very different from teaching them about Personal Learning. In fact, the lack of attention to this topic was the reason I founded Work Literacy in June of 2008. But hopefully 2009 will be the year when that begins to change.

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Axonify

AUGUST 17, 2016

This can represent a considerable culture change for organizations that tend to look down upon those who share openly without regard for workplace hierarchy and politics. Knowledge sharing among work teams just isn’t sufficient if one hopes to keep up with the pace of innovation.

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Limestone Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Join Chris Olson, Director of Corporate Strategy and Partnerships at Class Technologies, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, as they discuss how to turn these challenges into innovative ways to manage in the ever-changing hybrid workplace. Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 11 a.m.–12

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Axonify

AUGUST 17, 2016

This can represent a considerable culture change for organizations that tend to look down upon those who share openly without regard for workplace hierarchy and politics. Knowledge sharing among work teams just isn’t sufficient if one hopes to keep up with the pace of innovation.

Social Learning 100

Social Learning Social Social Networks Social Media 100

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

But the business world is embroiled in great change. At the Stoos Gathering and other efforts to humanize management , participants are concluding that machines work well when you need to do the same thing over and over, but they’re not so hot when doing different things is required. No messy emotions to get in the way.

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KnowledgeCity

APRIL 1, 2021

When you look back over the past year, you likely are able to acknowledge how hard things were for you, your family and your work team – but do you also see areas in which you’ve grown? For many of us, the way we communicate changed because we stopped seeing our peers in person. What sticks out most to you?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

Work and learning are converging, and as this change happens, the infrastructure of the old corporate learning must go – things like traditional one-size-fit-all in-person training seminars. We make our work accessible to others. We are a vanguard of change within the company. We know learning is work; work is learning.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Let’s look at the new focus and changes L&D can bring through servant leadership, teamwork, soft and hard skills and individual empowerment while embracing AI for its highest positive advantage and value. Some companies have moved the “team” concept to a new and higher level of company structure based on super teams.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2011

While we still have companies and corporations such as the two mentioned above, many are becoming virtualized in this digital age, with online work teams handing off assignments to each other around the world. But the millennial style of working can yield success if the boss is willing to remodel the status quo. To have fun.

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KnowledgeCity

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being an influential leader is about getting results out of your work team and being able to effectively stimulate change when needed. An emotionally mature leader is not volatile or antisocial, but rather works with people with an element of patience and understanding. What it Means to Be an Influential Leader.

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KnowledgeCity

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Emotional challenges – This category can be broadly defined and includes anything from feeling alienated from one’s work team to experiencing crying spells and hopelessness. This affects motivation and work performance. What do they need, and how have their needs changed compared to two years ago?

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Marcia Conner

DECEMBER 20, 2008

I just read a fascinating article in the magazine Step about design teams. While reading it I kept thinking about how the way design teams are assembled and lead should be considered for most all work teams in business today. Agile, frequently changing, without much hierarchy, purpose-driven. Perhaps this also.

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Matrix

JULY 9, 2020

Individuals with a growth mindset , on the other hand, believe that effort or training can change one’s qualities and traits. Needless to say, with everything changing as fast as it does in all industries, a growth mindset is highly preferable. When it comes to individual teams, changing the mindset is not as difficult.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 13, 2009

The learning organization can get out in front by looking to provide access to information about this market and talk with key stakeholders about possible changes that they may need to support to help accomplish this transition. The vast majority of learning ignition points occur for individuals or teams based on their specific work.

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Coreaxis

JUNE 4, 2018

One illustration of that efficiency in action is the use of virtual work teams. Being able to collaborate with colleagues around the world, has changed the way many companies do business. Here are just a few examples of the benefits of virtual teams.

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WalkMe Training Station

APRIL 26, 2017

However, it’s easy to lose sight of what you have, what works effectively and how to improve on that, where the employee strengths are and how they could be developed further. These moments of casual complaining or vehement distress are clues to an organization’s culture — what works and what doesn’t.

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KnowledgeCity

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Picture the following scenario: it’s early on a Friday morning and you usher your work team into the conference room for their quarterly group training activity. Your team seems low energy and not terribly committed to your presentation. We’ve all been there. Embrace the Future with Online Learning Engagements.

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