Excerpts from an article by CLO’s Deanna Hartley : Determining Relevance: Tangible vs. Intangible . Instead, the CLO [should get] together a governance body where they [have] people in charge of the organization who say: ‘What do we want the people to be able to do that they can’t do, and what part of that can learning address?”. Is this helping us attain our current objectives?’ Is this delighting our customers?’ And if it’s not, they shouldn’t be doing it,” he said. They are essentially the wrong measures. How did you learn it?’ Just Jay MORE >>

How can learning leaders assess whether the benefits live up to the hype?&# – CLO Magazine March 2010 Issue. co-wrote an article with Craig Mindrum about verifying the virtual value of networked learning. . The article begins with this introduction: “Networked learning — namely, the use of social media in the workplace — has taken on a kind of religious fervor among learning practitioners during the past couple years. Here is a link to the article:  Verifying Virtual Value (article in CLO Magazine March 2010 Issue). MORE >>

Karie Willyerd, former CLO of Sun Microsystems and current CEO of Jambok puts things into perspective ever so succinctly. Donald Kirkpatrick himself, interviewed in a November 2009 Chief Learning Officer article, said, “Top management, we call it the jury, is not going to approve budget unless you can prove that when people go back to the job they’re using what they learn, and that’s going to accomplish the results they look for.&#. Originally posted to Chief Learning Officer Magazine, February 2011 Edition. Reprinted here with permission. original link here ). MORE >>

About RSS Subscribe: RSS feed Wonderful Brain All Things Considered Important in Learning and Design Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning Posted on v, March, 2011 by Rich 0 I caught an interesting article about the twelve most dangerous words in business.  Be the first to start a conversation Leave a Reply Cancel reply Interim & Consulting Support The decision to bring on a CLO, Senior VP or an enterprise-wide learning executive can be a long process; often a start date can be 90 days out. I thought, twelve. That’s it?  BTW, mother’s are great at this. GRRRR. MORE >>

There are a few reasons for this: Learning will forever be part formal, part informal and part social (see this CLO Magazine article I wrote for more details). Going forward, and as best I can, I’ll use the term ‘ Connected Learning’ to describe a knowledge ecosystem made up of formal, informal and social learning behaviours and modalities. It’s about time I (and perhaps you as well) retire the term Learning 2.0. Learning 2.0 implies there may be Learning 3.0 coming; learning can’t be thought of or positioned as a series of iPhone versions (ie. iPhone 3, iPhone 4, etc.). MORE >>