The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

And then I explain how to select the best method for the situation and how data (quantitative and qualitative) from any of these methods can be used to improve learning across an organization. If you take a look at the course, I welcome your feedback.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

This is actually the ‘cover story’ myth of my recent book on myths! A second one emerges when there’s an (unjustified) claim that learning should have 3E’s: Entertaining, Enlightening, and Engaging. I do agree with Engaging (per the title of my first book), however, there’s a problem with it.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Google+ Learning in Organizations Community is up to 240 members. Last month, I asked “What books would you recommend to someone who’s new to organizational learning and wants a feel for what’s going on?” Michael: 9780917917080: Amazon.com: Books. One of my many seminal books.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Managers in any organization, whether nonprofit, government, or business, play a pivotal role in creating and sustaining learning. They do not have to be instructors nor do they have to be expert in the knowledge and skills needed by their direct reports.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2014

They are learning how to acquire the knowledge and skills that they need to help the organization be successful. In their book, A New Culture of Learning , Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown describe this dynamic world and what it means to learn how to learn in this kind of environment.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. => If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. =>

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

One is personalization of learning. Courses, books, articles, videos, and online practice groups can be accessed according to the learning needs of each employee. If a manager wants to help a direct-report learn the new safety standards, he can send a video on the subject to the employees smartphone. Related articles.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 21, 2014

Clawson in their chapter in the book, Creating a Learning Culture , write this about competition and learning: Today it seems that organizations need to be able to do more than just adapt: they must become agile in the face of constantly changing conditions. Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I have been thinking for a long time about what we, as L&D, need to and can do to foster a culture of sharing and collaborative learning to meet the challenges of a distributed workplace with dispersed expertise and complex work situations. In my mind, working out loud can be one of the means to strengthen organizational learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

These changes are having an enormous impact on what and how people need to learn. In a book by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson titled, “The Second Machine Age,” the authors describe the situation this way: …as computers get more powerful, companies have less need for some kinds of workers. Banking can be done entirerly online.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

They write: For the past two decades, management theorists have been convinced that organisations succeed or fail on the basis of their specialised knowledge. Chris Argyris referred to these “stupid” behaviors as “organizational defenses”. This is what Andre Spicer and Mats Alvesson have concluded from their research on organizations.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Leaders say how they will support learning and how they will recognize and reward those employees who continually acquire new knowledge and new skills. . Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers. And people realize that facilitating learning doesn’t necessarily take much time.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

When I ask the training and development leaders who participate in my ATD Essentials of Developing an Organizational Learning Culture workshop to say what percentage of employees who attend training programs actually apply what they’ve learned on the job, the answers range from about 10% to about 50%, with most at the lower end of that range.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

They are as much a part of me as all things learning. In the future too, I see this blog being intermittently peppered with posts unrelated to organizational learning but delineating experiences that are of personal import. Building Expertise deals with learning and training as it needs to be.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

If done properly, audit and recommendation process provides a methodology for moving from“learning as an event focus” to a “learning as a process” focus which will increase employee learning and retention. Step One: Define Strategic Knowledge Objectives. This will be done through a Knowledge Audit.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2018

I’ve used this quip quite a bit, as it’s essentially the rationale for the Revolution book. It’s about the state of Learning & Development, and sums up one perspective fairly succinctly: L&D isn’t doing near what it could and should be, and what it is doing it’s doing badly.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I expect they’re seeing more info dump/knowledge test, more and more ‘ click to learn more ‘, more tarted-up drill-and-kill. What is the most significant change technology has made to organizational learning in the past decade? There are reasons I wrote those books :).

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Origin Learning

JANUARY 11, 2019

Learning experience through books is now considered a bit passé. Similarly, the learning experience is now no longer confined to a classroom. Online learning has evolved significantly in the past decade. Learning at the workplace comprises both formal and informal learning. Evidence-based learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 22, 2011

I can design web based training that can be delivered across the globe or I can design blended solutions with facilitators delivering lecture interspersed with interactive simulations and knowledge checks. What might organizational learning look like 10 years from now? How have 21st century technologies not helped you?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Four). . It is managing minds and placing a mission-critical value on learning. This includes technical, operational, and managerial knowledge and skills.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 3, 2018

Following is a selection from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter One). . Your primary responsibility is to lead people into a 21st-century knowledge economy that supports and sustains learning over everything else. There is no alternative future.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Two). The future of how we learn in our organizations is a popular topic. The three keys to successfully managing minds are essentially the competencies needed to move forward and succeed in the knowledge economy.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2018

Following is a selection from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Two). The future of how we learn in our organizations is a popular topic. The three keys to successfully managing minds are essentially the competencies needed to move forward and succeed in the knowledge economy.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

How do you find agile learners, people who can curate information for themselves, use a wide variety of learning methods, and quickly apply new learning to their work? Also, hire people who are not afraid to fail and to learn from failure. How do they acquire the knowledge and skills to do their work?

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Learning Visions

JUNE 11, 2014

Steve shows this great cartoon from circa 1900, showing the illustrator’s idea of Learning in the year 2000– kids sitting at a desk, books being poured into a grinder. Wires connecting the book grinder to the kids brains. He thought that learning would no longer be about instruction. I store my knowledge with my friends.”

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Matrix

APRIL 22, 2021

In 1970, he published the first edition of his popular book, The Modern Practice of Adult Education: Andragogy Versus Pedagogy. As the title suggests, the theory recognizes andragogy and pedagogy as two distinct paradigms about how children and adult learners acquire new knowledge. They expect to use what they’ve learned.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Robert Simons does just that in his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution. An exerpt appears in the November 22 nd issue of Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. In that article, Simons summarizes the seven key questions: Who is your primary customer? The emphasis here is on “primary”.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 25, 2017

We are now in the "Knowledge Economy" which means that we must learn differently than we have in the past. As I wrote in a previous blog post titled, The Manager's Abridged History of Work and Learning : . This has profound implications for how we manage workers and how we facilitate learning in the workplace.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

With the publication of my new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy , I have continued to focus my blog posts on a manager’s role in supporting continuous learning for all employees in the workplace. And I have examined an employee’s responsibility for continuous learning in the Knowledge Economy.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 12, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Five). Plugging in to what she needed to learn was as direct and fast as the screenwriters could imagine…. There is a moment in the movie The Matrix when Trinity says, “I need to know how to fly a helicopter!”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Four). . It is managing minds and placing a mission-critical value on learning. This includes technical, operational, and managerial knowledge and skills.

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Ideaon

JANUARY 8, 2018

History tells us that gamification in learning increases the attention span and helps retain knowledge and process. Of course, when social learning was introduced we saw the same reactions. I have news for you: social learning is here to stay. I myself use You Tube or Face Book to find out a formula I need.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 29, 2022

A learning experience platform or LXP is essentially a digital tool within the learning ecosystem that helps create and facilitate personalized learning experiences online. LXPs deliver knowledge to learners in a wide range of content, thus giving them options to shift toward the ones they find most relevant and engaging.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Whereas in a learning culture, responsibility for learning resides with each employee, each team, and each manager. In that kind of culture, employees, with the help of their managers, seek out the knowledge and skills they need, when and where that knowledge and those skills are needed.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 3, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter One). . Your primary responsibility is to lead people into a 21st-century knowledge economy that supports and sustains learning over everything else. There is no alternative future.

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Change Management Stock Photography 100

Origin Learning

JUNE 19, 2015

.”* The results were amazing – Microsoft’s global workforce was able to “discover one another” through joint participation on the MOOC as well demonstrate on-the-job impact by showing that knowledge gained through specific courses was then used to accomplish a goal that has value.**. Rosenberg, Ph.D.,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Seven). Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and develop competencies that make them more valuable to the organization. Learning is aligned with results.

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