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Steps to Developing a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In my online course for the Association for Talent Development (formerly known as ASTD) titled, Essentials of Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , participants want to know what they can do in the short term to create a learning culture. However, some CLOs feel pressure to change things immediately.

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15 Stats About Sales Training You Won’t Want to Ignore

KZO Innovations

8) Video cures our information overload. We receive 5X more information than we did in 1986. 9) On-demand learning yields 50% higher net sales per employee (ASTD). This leaves millions of employees in need of comprehensive and engaging training that the old “sales school” cannot provide. 80% comes from seeing and doing.

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Tony Karrer

My experience at ASTD recently was that most people were completely unaware of all of this. Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. Information Creation tools : Exps: Youtube, SlideShare, Flickr.

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About Declarative and Procedural Knowledge and the Expert-Novice Divide

ID Reflections

Keeps, a combined ASTD and ISPI publication. For an expert, the information coming their way is grouped in larger and larger interconnected bits. Whereas, a novice gets mired in the details because, for them, each piece of information is a separate bit. The information flows somewhat in this manner: Can this change?

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Clark Quinn

My experience at ASTD recently was that most people were completely unaware of all of this. Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. Information Creation tools : Exps: Youtube, SlideShare, Flickr.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. 6) iPad (5) SkillSoft (2) Social Learning (15) Virtual Classroom (5) ASTD (8) eLearningGuild (2) And here were my top posts based on social signals. And it’s going to become much better in the new year as it moves over to the next generation platform.

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

The second half of the prediction “self directed learning” got less attention during the year than I anticipated, but it was there and certainly was a big part of the discussion around social and informal learning. has fallen a bit out of favor and instead we are discussing these as social and informal learning.