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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Leaders have to be willing to put some money behind training programs and they have to trust the statistics validating informal and social learning principles. Toni is right when she says that this failure in learning is not the fault of the disconnected IT pro but that of company leadership. Ive been looking for some ammo t. Properly d.

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Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Not Everyone is a Social Customer by Paul on February 11, 2011 in Development Tools , customer service , social learning A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about the need to train your clients on the various methods of…training.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Trust me…trying to train folks on a software package that they will neither need nor use is an exercise in frustration for everyone involved, not to mention a waste of time and money. Suddenly, the manager must learn to trust his people on another level. Terrifying! Ive been looking for some ammo t. Properly d.

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Brewing CALDO: How communications and learning professionals can thrive using DevOps

CLO Magazine

circa 2011. The Third Way, creating a culture of experimentation and learning , enables organizations to grow and test new ideas in an atmosphere permeated with safety and trust. Organizations leveraging these practices foster generative, high-trust, cultures. Classical systems methods aren’t keeping up.

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Why You Need to Think of Yourself as a Business Executive First, Learning Leader Second

Acorn Labs

Because we get so focused on measuring our impact based on Kirkpatrick levels of evaluation, when the business could care less about that, right? We had just launched this at Neiman Marcus, back in I want to say 2010, 2011. Let's do trust falls. I just happen to solve problems through people development. Amazingly, yeah.

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Why You Need to Think of Yourself as a Business Executive First, Learning Leader Second

Acorn Labs

Because we get so focused on measuring our impact based on Kirkpatrick levels of evaluation, when the business could care less about that, right? We had just launched this at Neiman Marcus, back in I want to say 2010, 2011. Let's do trust falls. I just happen to solve problems through people development. Amazingly, yeah.

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A Year of “The Performance Improvement Blog” in Review

The Performance Improvement Blog

It seems like everyone has their top this or top that from 2011. Throughout 2011, I used this blog to shed some light on critical leadership and management issues. Not to be left out, I thought I would do a little year-end reflecting of my own.