A few weeks ago, someonetweeted this link on reducing infections in hospitals. I’m not in the healthcare industry and perhaps there are some downsides to this approach, but for someone who has fully experienced the Knowing-Doing gap , it really caught my attention. The video (a CBC news story) is about 8 minutes long, but I think it’s worth the time. The simple things in that stand out to me in this video: Encourage people to solve the problem themselves. Use of a code word: “Nurse Jackson” for all to hold each other accountable. Front line teams are the change agents. MORE >>

(Not so) Recently I commented on Twitter about my approach to professional development this year and Steve Flowers (@xpconcept) commented that it made sense in a broader application  to instructional design. Then, I saw a tweet from David Kelly (@LnDDave) who was at an #ASTD2012 conference session with Michael Allen. They were presenting their Successive Approximation Method (SAM) as a substitution for ADDIE (poor girl, everyone’s favorite whipping horse), which sounded a lot like a “T” in my mind. And now, hopefully a few weeks later a blog post! MORE >>

Have you heard of The Toolbar ? It’s a podcast by Brian and Judy on e-learning. And beer. Why not? Although I’m not a Mac user, I hope that doesn’t completely eliminate me as a target listener). This week they talked a bit about storyboarding. During the listening of the podcast, I found myself wanting to ask questions, jump in, get clarification, etc. Which is a great thing. think it’s a sign of an engaging program. Turns out, others were listening too! As a matter of fact, it seemed to be a bit of a trend. saw this post on the Captivate blog as well. MORE >>

I care about learning.  I spend most of my time helping clients develop great learning strategies.  In a perfect world, I could ignore the messy world of performance. But, But, since I work mainly with corporate clients, and also because I subscribe to Dan Pink’s theory in Drive (we all seek autonomy, mastery and purpose), I care about performance, too.  If learning isn’t pushing towards improved performance on some level, then it’s aimless and has the potential of becoming a navel-gazing exercise.  My last post was about performance management.  I still believe that.  Learn. MORE >>

Most of what I see around learning and technology (especially as it relates to Canada) is focused on MOOCs (for lots of news and commentary, Stephen Downes is a must read). But, there seems to be less coverage on learning technologies or products/services focused on the corporate markets. Maybe it’s a bit more fragmented as a market. I’m not an analyst, so these are simply my observations. Here are some interesting new companies in the learning/technology industry and kind of chuffed that they are Canadian! Absorb - by Blatant Media out of Calgary,  Alberta based (hey, move west!), MORE >>