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Managing Learning?

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Donald Taylor recently published an article titled ‘ What does ‘LMS’ mean today ?’. Keeping the CEO out of Jail In his article Donald quotes Andy Wooler, Academy Technology Manager at Hitachi Data Systems Academy, as saying: “LMS too often stands for Litigation Mitigation Service.” It is this.

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Heading towards high performance

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This article was initially published on the Totara website on 4th January 2017. The inertia issue “Research suggests that engagement in most organisations is very low. So what’s the answer to the inertia issue? In this post, Totara Learning's Chief Commercial Officer Lars Hyland speaks to Charles Jennings.

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

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There’s an article I wrote some time ago which addresses that particular issue in detail here. Occasionally the outcomes are the exact opposite of the intentions (see my article on compliance and diversity training here for examples of this). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

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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. I feel it still speaks to a key issue for building high performance that has barely been touched by many L&D professionals).

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

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For me Twitter gives access to smart people who provide an enormous wealth of information and insight through their commentary and links to research, articles and other resources. Twitter : I have learned more in my professional life through Twitter in the past six-and-a-half years than in the previous 30 years.

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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

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A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. Kotter found that the issues were never strategy, structure, culture or systems, but those related to changing behaviours.

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70:20:10 – Above All Else It’s a Change Agent

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His list included important issues and current areas of focus such as the new and emerging roles for L&D professionals; the value of sharing as a skill for learning and development; the importance of personal learning networks and personal knowledge mastery; and the inverse relationship between experience and the value of formal learning.

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