Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 23, 2013

On my way home from a friend’s house recently, I became engrossed in a news story on the radio. Suddenly, I realized, I was actually driving away from my house. I had missed my freeway exit and was speeding in exactly the wrong direction. Where was I going? How did [.] The post A Secret Weapon for Learning Professionals: The Power of Habit appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 15, 2013

One of the little absurdities of human nature that I’ve always found fascinating is how easily we allow our actions and priorities to be shaped by rewards and incentives that are not, when you think about them, very rewarding or incentivizing. I was recently reminded of this rule while walking [.] The post The Role of Incentives in Learning (Hint: Read to the end to get a reward!

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 3, 2013

In a recent meeting I had the sobering experience of learning that one of my young colleagues1 did not know who Clippy was. Remember him?2 Microsoft’s short-lived avatar that would pop up to try to “help” you with your work? 1 To be fair, my colleague just didn’t know his [.] The post ‘Just In Time’ and ‘Just Enough’; or Death to Clippy appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2013

Training evaluation appears to be the Holy Grail of the L&D world. It’s one of the hottest topics in the blogosphere and at conferences (see Barbara Camm’s highly trafficked posts on evaluation), and yet it remains extremely elusive. From Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation, to Michael Scriven to Jack Phillips [.] The post What’s the ROI on Disengaged Employees?

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