The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In a training culture, most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand. The entire organization is engaged in facilitating and supporting learning, in the workplace and outside the workplace.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 10, 2023

Leaders will either role model a performance-driven mindset with the right tools to evaluate performance, provide constructive feedback, and address performance gaps effectively in line with organisational needs, or they'll sustain an ineffective status quo. It's not just about instilling the right behaviours, but mindsets.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Mentoring – a relationship in which senior leaders impart their knowledge and wisdom on employees who are learning to be leaders. Learning alliance – a relationship between managers and their direct reports that focuses on employee learning and how managers can support that learning.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 10, 2023

Leaders will either role model a performance-driven mindset with the right tools to evaluate performance, provide constructive feedback, and address performance gaps effectively in line with organisational needs, or they'll sustain an ineffective status quo. It's not just about instilling the right behaviours, but mindsets.

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Vignettes Learning

AUGUST 14, 2017

You could wear specially equipped smart glasses where the glasses display information regarding the things within your field of view, onto the lens. As you turn your head around and look at different things, objects and information would be displayed enabling you to interact with each.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

Recognizing and rewarding the leadership team and individual managers for facilitating this continuous learning and obtaining performance improvement results is so important, and a catalyst for success. In order for any kind of learning intervention (training, coaching, mentoring, action learning, etc.)

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. Here, LMS functionality is provided within the context of your principal day-to-day tool for learning, knowledge-sharing and collaboration, not the other way round.

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Docebo

MAY 8, 2018

While, there remains a need for formal training environments to meet specific learning outcomes, but the necessity for organizations to leverage platforms that enable social and informal learning, where learners network, share, collaborate and exchange ideas to solve problems, is paramount. Why Does Social Learning Matter?

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Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

In the wake of the pandemic in 2020, we saw the mass movement of learning into digital with learning technology providing the only way to adapt to lockdowns and enable organizations to support the tremendous upheavals to work, operating models, and business practices. But the label misses an important point.

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Acorn Labs

AUGUST 18, 2022

That affects your talent pipeline with leaders that may be less confident, innovative or informed than you need—which only trickles down into your workforce. Self-paced learning isn't the bone to throw here, especially in online learning environments. But cohort-based learning works because it: Is scalable. Networking.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

To achieve success in today’s hyper-fast corporate environments, companies cannot simply disseminate information using old-school tactics. Access: Deliver critical information to employees in an engaging, intuitive format that’s accessible in the flow of work. Preparing for a State of Readiness.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

How does that translate into our informal and formal development efforts? If we’re using the same ideas, thoughts and guides to mentor or teach others year after year, does it retain value? While this brings up more questions than answers, it provides good food for thought when it comes to devising updated development.

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Training Industry

MAY 30, 2017

The University of Bologna (Europe’s first university, founded in 1088), Oxford (founded in 1166) and the Sorbonne (founded in 1253) have all been faced with several upheavals, including the birth of the printing press, the telephone and now new information technologies. The trainer then becomes a mentor providing individual support.

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Unboxed

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some employers may be tempted to push employee training to the side of their business-centric priorities, but you may want to think again… At Unboxed Training & Technology, our goal is to provide you with any recent corporate training trends with actionable ways to apply these new industry insights to your company or team.

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Ed App

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It requires them to participate, engage, and collaborate in class to drive deeper learning outcomes. Here, we’ll dive into the several benefits of active learning that make it one of the most preferred learning methods of today. Active learning is scientifically proven to result in significantly increased message retention.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Learning leaders can focus on four types of information when helping to identify and assess candidates: • Performance: Examine the candidates’ performance track record in their current and recent roles. Learning leaders should take the lead to ensure succession candidates develop individually and collectively.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2013

Developing these traits is an experiential process that takes place over time through a blend of formal and informal learning, hands-on and virtual personal leadership and organizational leadership development training, cross-departmental collaborations, high-visibility stretch projects, coaching and self-reflection.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I have worked with executive education organizations to build feedback into experiential learning or action learning projects, which can be particularly valuable.”. The busier people get, no matter how much development we provide, people often slip back or default into their natural tendencies,” she said.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2012

• A consultant revisits a client’s facility and finds the client has incorporated into the company’s culture change management practices which the consultant provided during his original engagement with the organization. In organizations, people can give knowledge, experience and information.

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Thinkdom

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This blog shares insights, providing you with a guide to boost employee performance with six simple corporate learning solutions. Furthermore, rapid eLearning often incorporates interactive elements and multimedia, contributing to increased engagement and better retention of information. Benefits Role Clarity: No more guesswork.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2017

Consequently, Barger is focusing his learning team not only on traditional kinds of new-hire training, though that is important. In addition, he is looking at knowledge sharing and continuous learning strategies to provide real-time educational opportunities to ensure front-line effectiveness.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In 2008, the bottom fell out of the market, and like everyone else, Microsoft tightened its belt, especially in finance, which cut out all non-customer related travel for more than a year, including travel to Learning Weeks. Help finance professionals make sound decisions with incomplete or uncertain information.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Every other month, market intelligence firm IDC surveys Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board on a variety of topics to gauge the issues, opportunities and attitudes that are important to senior learning executives. Some CLOs think increased investments in learning and development are afoot (Figure 3).

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

All of these games provide bonding as well as learning opportunities, and most adults play those same games today with their kids — in addition to new technology-based games — for the same purpose. To provide a visual classroom description, picture participants sitting at small group tables; they serve as a company’s executive team.

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Limestone Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

How to future-proof your learning strategy with an LMS that allows you to keep up with the latest trends in learning and development, including micro and informal learning. Connecting the dots between learning management and business performance. It just wasn't scalable for enterprise-wide adoption.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

" "Hypothesis testing is the way all babies gather information. our survival did not depend upon exposing ourselves to organised, pre-planned packets of information. It depended upon chaotic, reactive information-gathering experiences. The tendency is so strong, it is capable of turning us into lifelong learners."

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2014

Even in the debate over how many services government entities should provide, no one disputes that people should get decent service when they come to a city hall, county courthouse, division of motor vehicles office or federal post office, Stegmaier said. Learning effectiveness is measured using the Kirkpatrick model.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

People learn more in an environment that encourages conversation, so make sure you’re fostering an environment where people talk to each other. The politicians had gone back on their promise to provide every elementary student with a computer. The kids will learn a lot more this way. It would be 2 kids per machine.

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Training Orchestra

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Overcoming constraints when training government employees The primary obstacle in providing training for public entity employees is the constraint of time. To address the issue, local governments have attempted innovative approaches to provide training for their employees that take into consideration the time constraints faced by employees.

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Appsembler

AUGUST 9, 2023

Strategies in Action: Learn from real case studies how companies successfully employed educational and hands-on marketing tactics. In essence, educational product marketing embraces the role of an enlightener, a mentor, and a guide. Informed Purchase Decisions: Informed consumers make confident decisions.

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Limestone Learning

AUGUST 31, 2018

Open-source learning platforms like Moodle and Totara make it incredibly easy to integrate innovative eLearning tools and strategies—including gamified content, badges, certificates, and best-of-breed content—that enhance the learning experience while providing learners with incentives to continuously develop their skillset.

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Design 4 Performance

JANUARY 28, 2017

Structured action learning projects and stretch assignments can support engaging experiences, but it’s ultimately about the approach of the individual and organisation. It also helps to define three high priority points of training focus: Scenarios : to provide safe and supported (simulated) experiential learning.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informal learning but nobody’s against Working Smarter. Your organization already has a workscape where people are learning to work smarter. Mentors, coaching.

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Limestone Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Don’t you wish you could ingest information as fast as Halloween candy? As learning specialists, we’re always thinking about how to make knowledge digestible and palatable—like those chocolate bars you wish you hadn’t eaten, only good for you! Check them out!

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