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Context is King: Excerpts from posts and articles - Part I

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Then a tweet by @sumeet_moghe on the same topic today prompted me to put up excerpts of the articles and posts I have been reading here. marcjrosenberg on #lsmag [link] #lrnchat The excerpts: We need context to understand complex issues and this can be provided by those we are connected to.

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Exceptions are the new normal

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Whenrules limit these abilities, then we run the risk of inefficiency, unsatisfiedcustomers and unsolved issues. Sameer Patel in the same piece references an HBR article byAdrian Cott called AreScorecards and Metrics Killing Employee Engagement? One of the paragraphsin the article states: “Rules are comfort food for management.

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Week's Learning #1

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article in TIQuarterly) @TrainingIndustr #learning #training [link] … “The role and relative value of learning content is changing fast… A second driver for a new use of content is the jettisoning of the idea that training is primarily about knowledge transfer. This means any organization has the oxymoronic goal of being an attractive prison.”

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Building learning organizations require a paradigm shift!

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When a business unit approaches us with a new learning issue, be it technology - or business skill-based, we immediately begin thinking of ways that fall back on traditional approaches such as the classroom, be it virtual or bricks-and-mortar, and e-learning. The above is an excerpt from the article Selling Up, Selling Down by Bob Mosher.

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Adaptive Thinking, Deliberate Practice, and Complexity

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The article Think Like a Commander takes an in-depth look at Adaptive Thinking and how it can be “taught”. This post is a summary of the key learnings from the article. I have paraphrased liberally from the article. Here, by taught I am trying to imply that Adaptive Thinking can be acquired.

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Trust, Tacit Knowledge and Social Business

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Related articles John Tropea: 2 aspects in tacit knowledge (johntropea.tumblr.com) John Tropea: Trust is the medium and knowledge the message (johntropea.tumblr.com) David Gurteen: Sense-making through conversation (jarche.com) The ineffable, the inexpiable & the inexpicable (cognitive-edge.com). In thiscontext, how do we build trust?

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers--stop #9

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Today, a trainer/ID/L&D director can ask a group of learners on Facebook or Twitter (or any other micro-blogging service that operates within the company firewall if security is an issue) how useful they find the course, what do they like or dislike, which aspects are most relevant to their real work, what could be removed, and so on.