Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Formal measures for continuous improvement include implementing communities of practice (a group of people with a shared concern or interest), training evaluation, training assessments and post-training tracking. Continuous improvement is a persistent endeavour to bring improvements across the whole organisation. You see the problem?

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Association eLearning

APRIL 30, 2014

Corporate training departments have carried this further, by implementing coaching and communities of practice (CoP). Likewise, associations can leverage their membership to create virtual and ongoing communities of practice. If you have an online course, consider assigning these SMEs as coaches for their learners.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Jane talked about how you had to walk the walk: working out loud, personal learning, coaching, etc. You may have a community of practice or a mailing list that is appropriate. Mine (of course :) was at the far end, innovation. It triggered a thought for me about innovating, and that meant experimentation.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. As a start, I wanted to go back and look at these elements and see if I could be more systematic about it. Within each were separate elements.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. For the 20, coaching and mentoring, we can start delivering that wherever needed, via mobile. The technology wasn’t advanced enough. But that’s changed. What has changed are several things.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are numerous ways to use internal resources to support learning, including coaching, mentoring, apprenticing, job shadowing and engaging in trial or stretch projects. Leveraging internal resources for skill building is one of the most important tools in the learning and development leader’s arsenal.

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Actio Learning

JANUARY 27, 2022

and methods of collaboration (social, communities of practice , etc.). Structured coaching : To bridge the gap between general underwriting knowledge and company and job-specific aspects of performance, structured on-the-job coaching provided instruction, guidance, and feedback to the underwriters. SharePoint) EPSS (e.g.,

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Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2012

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

This informal learning is facilitated by coaching, mentoring, communities-of-practice, experiments, action-learning and any of a myriad of other methods including the various forms of social media. In this kind of culture, formal classroom training is probably the least effective.

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Acorn Labs

JANUARY 11, 2023

This is commonly done through formal measures like training evaluation, training assessments, post-training enablement and communities of practice (i.e. Continuous improvement is a persistent endeavour to refine and enhance strategy execution. a group of people with a shared learning concern or interest).

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PDG

MAY 17, 2021

As virtual selling continues to transition from “this will never work” to “all in a day’s work,” it’s important for sales leaders to modify their approach to support and coach their team members. Provide clear direction and coaching. Here are three strategies that can help you to lead your team to virtual sales success.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 28, 2015

A Case Study of the UW Professional Life Coaching Certificate Program. Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. This is the story of a university extension certificate program that is doing both.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 28, 2015

Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. I witnessed second hand what I believe to be an example of best practice for blended learning design. Star Instructor. You can do the same. Luoma does.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

More than a fixed environment, the word ‘ecosystem’ implies complex interactions and continued growth which might include: a range of people (managers, peers, mentors, coaches). It can be supported via journals, group/individual coaching, mentors, ‘win/learn/change’ processes or elements of social learning.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Employees would be tightly coupled to their work teams, and more loosely coupled to their communities of practice. Managers would be playing a leadership and mentoring & coaching role rather than a directive role. Similarly social would play a much more central role, arguably our first recourse.

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PDG

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As virtual selling continues to transition from “this will never work” to “all in a day’s work,” it’s important for leading sales teams to modify their approach to support and coach their team members. Provide Clear Direction and Coaching. Here are three strategies that can help you to lead your team to virtual sales success: 1.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? Managers and leaders have to don the hats of coaches and mentors for organizations to become learning organizations that adapt and move with the tide. Only adults doing their work.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

John David Smith, Learning Alliances ( [link] ) John brings over 25 years of experience to bear on the technology and learning problems faced by communities, their leaders and their sponsors. He's the host of com-prac, the longest-running conversation about communities of practice on the 'Net. eLearning Technology.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Leaders of work units don’t hesitate to communicate with one another, and they provide assistance and peer coaching as needed. Everyone actively participates in communities of learning and graduates to be involved in communities of practice. Organizational structure facilitates learning.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

When formal training was not feasible, most organizations had to resort to field learning using peer support and more leverage of workflow coaching by senior employees. They need simple coaching for certain issues, and targeted training for others. When there is a problem, employees tend to seek help from their immediate peers.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2013

For example, a blend could easily include the following: Coaching from a manager or specialist coach (non-formal/20) Workshops in a physical or virtual classroom (formal/10) E-learning tutorials / scenarios / simulations / serious games (formal/10) Use of forums, wikis, blogs, etc. on-demand and experiential.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I'm developing a 3 months course for trainers and coaches to become bilangual in the sense that they may facilitate online and face-to-face; we call it 'E-vaardig trainen and coachen'. Here, she defines learning and social learning and links social learning to personal learning networks and communities of practice.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

Communities of practice , a term coined by Institute for Research on Learning staff. Learning is a condition of continuing membership in that community. Shared practices create bonds between people. We are all members of multiple communities of practice. Knowing is really embedded in practice.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Social physics may prove incredibly powerful for both classroom and virtual channels, and potentially even for communities of practice, digital coaching, mentorship initiatives, longer-term/cross-channel leadership development programs and more. We won’t know for sure until we try, but all signs point to meaningful impact.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2013

Think performance support first, and communities of practice, only resorting to courses as a last result. More emphasis can and should be on providing performance resources and facilitating useful interactions rather than creating courses.

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Docebo

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Not only are Best-in-Class organizations significantly more likely to enable social learning via technology (see Figure 1), but they are also more likely than all other performers to support social learning through peers, and through coaching and mentoring by managers. Externalization: Tacit-to-Explicit. Conclusion.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Leaders of work units don’t hesitate to communicate with one another, and they provide assistance and peer coaching as needed. Everyone actively participates in communities of learning and graduates to be involved in communities of practice. Organizational structure facilitates learning.

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Hurix Digital

APRIL 10, 2023

Video Conferencing: It can be used for virtual classroom training, online coaching, and remote team collaboration. It can simulate real-life scenarios and environments, enabling employees to practice skills and scenarios in a safe and controlled environment. Its standard tools are forums, chat groups, and social media platforms.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Coaching – a relationship in which a trained coach helps an employee develop the knowledge and skills to be a more effective manager by addressing real situations that manager faces in workplace. Community of practice – people who share the same interests or responsibilities in an organization come together to learn from each other.

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PDG

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Charged with the overall commercial success of an organization, sales leaders contribute directly to the creation and execution of sound strategies to grow the business, while conducting critical coaching and development opportunities with sales representatives. Building Blocks. New sales leaders takes an active leadership role.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

To improve the effectiveness of your workshop even further, consider doing the following: Engage each trainee’s manager to act as their coach or mentor. Encourage the manager to engineer opportunities for the trainee to put their learning into practice. These can form part of the assessment.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2020

And having managers work as coaches, using data to improve folks, not censure them. Here it means going further, with everyone being active in their community of practice and actively monitoring trends in related fields for implications to improve practice.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 27, 2011

• Coaching. Cook-Greuter maintains that to help people transform, “only specific long-term practices, self-reflection, action inquiry, and dialogue, as well as living in the company of others further along the development path has been shown to be effective&# (pp. • Online courses. • System simulations.

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Training Industry

MARCH 17, 2014

Below are the five most important topics and the percentage of importance: Coaching employees (64 percent) Communication (written, verbal) (56 percent) Giving performance evaluations and feedback (53 percent) Managing and resolving conflict (49 percent) Decision-making (44 percent) Interestingly, all five of the top training topics are basic skills.

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The Learning Circuits

AUGUST 1, 2012

Part 2 in a 4-part series on what the Human Capital Community of Practice can learn from neuroscience Neuroscience is a field buzzing with new findings that are indisputably attention-grabbing. But what practical value do these findings offer for those in ASTD’s Human Capital Community of Practice ?

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2016

From language acquisition, to basic numeracy and literacy skills, to more sophisticated activities such as public speaking, dining out with old friends or driving in traffic - all have been scaffolded and coached through the influence of others. Conversations are some of the richest learning experiences, even in our senior years.

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The eLearning Coach

MAY 19, 2014

Experience API or xAPI) and discusses its potential for […] Post from: The eLearning Coach ELC 017: The Limitless Possibilities of xAPI (Tin Can). In many ways, Megan invented much of what the emerging community of practice advocates around this learning technology. She continues the charge today at Making Better.

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