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The Pivotal Point

Clark Quinn

So, the official blurb for the book talks about his tried and tested processes. In the interview, he talks about how he’s synthesized the work of the leaders of the performance improvement movement, people like Joe Harless, Geary Rummler, Thomas Gilbert, Robert Mager, Thiagi, and more.

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Training Evaluations 101: Benefits, How To, Plus Examples You’ll Want To Use

Spark Your Interest

Thomas Gilbert (1927 – 1995) was a psychologist who used behavioral psychology to improve performance at work and school. Gilbert identified six variables that he believed were necessary to improve human performance: information, resources, incentives, knowledge, capacity, and motives. At Spark + Co.,

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A Dialog with Thomas Gilbert

The Learning Circuits

Gilbert has graciously suspended his pursuit of heavenly activities to start this dialog on performance, or "worthy performance" as he likes to call it. Gilbert : In the great cult of behavior, the appeal is to control or affect behavior in some way. Gilbert : OK -- how about a true story? Gilbert : Exactly!

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Gameful Approaches to Motivation & Engagement: Recap of #WhartonGame Summit

Kapp Notes

Kevin is the creator of the University of Pennsylvania Gamification MOOC by Coursera which has had over 300,000 students and author of the book For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business. Chuck Picklehaupt, Susan Hunt Stevens, William Giammona, Thomas Hsu, Amaya Capellan and Caitlin Holman (left to right).

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Introducing May Guest Blogger Allison Rossett

The Learning Circuits

She was honored when ISPI selected her as a Member-for-Life and more recently when they bestowed the wonderful Thomas Gilbert Award on her. Allison is the author or co-author of six books, several of them award-winners.

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Ingenuity, creativity and time

Learning with e's

When Thomas Edison came up with the idea of the light bulb (the archetypical symbol of genius and creativity) he didn't do so in an instant. Watch the video below, a TED talk given by the writer Elizabeth Gilbert , who explains where our concept of genius and creativity comes from. It's a problem when it appears to be in short supply.

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Human Performance Improvement (HPI) Basics: Gilbert’s Behavioral Engineering Model (BEM)

Convergence Training

There are numerous systematic HPI models for doing this, and in this article, we’re going to discuss one of those–Thomas Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model, also known as BEM. Who Was Thomas Gilbert? You can pick up a few things about Gilbert just from the title of that book.