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Exploiting The Link Between Employee Development & Customer Engagement

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This post is adapted from a commentary written for the Spark Interactive / ClerkWell 2012 Digital Customer Experience Report – an annual industry report that focuses on customer engagement and how businesses are using digital means to build closer relationships and interact with their consumers.

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The Knowledge and Learning Transfer Problem

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Exposure to other organisations’ experiences can also be very useful for our own organisation’s learning and development, but no two organisations are exactly the same. When we develop a new capability, for example, it’s best to acquire it within the context we’re going to use it. The ‘exposure’ part is important.

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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

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Training Industry estimates the 2012 figures for the training market at $131billion in the USA and $160billion for the rest of the world – a global total of $291billion. New skills for understanding and using the Social Web, and for helping workers develop their personal knowledge management capabilities are required.

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Embedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges

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The Research A 2009 study by the Learning & Development Roundtable, a division of the Corporate Executive Board, reported that on-the-job learning had three times the impact on performance improvement over formal training programs. By their very nature informal and social learning is embedded in the daily workflow.

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It’s Only 65% !

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It is a common problem and underlies many of the barriers that organisations encounter as they strive to develop and implement effective learning strategies. I wrote about ‘the numbers’ on this blog back in June 2012. The way they support learning and development will be particular to them. Learning is a process not an event.

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Building a Culture of Continuous Learning

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This study was part of the Corporate Executive Board’s ‘Building High Performance Capability for the New Work Environment’ report published towards the end of 2012. In a recent webinar I discussed some very interesting data from the Corporate Leadership Council’s ‘Training Effectiveness Dashboard’ study with participants.

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The Power of Reflection in an Ever-Changing World

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(I wrote the original piece this article is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012. Yet one of the most useful tools for effective learning and development is reflection. Conversation is the ‘lubrication’ of learning and development. This holds true for learning in the workplace and in life. why did it happen?

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