Learning Pool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This collection focuses on managing the performance of a direct report. This innovative tool is specifically designed to enhance the skills and confidence of new managers, enabling them to effectively navigate complex conversations with their team members.

Brandon Hall 122

Brandon Hall Conversation Technology Communities of Practice 122

TalentLMS

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Situated cognition is based on the idea that learning is most effective when it is in context. For example, if an individual needs to learn how to complete a complex task, learning by doing is more effective than simply reading out it in a manual. 4 Situated Cognition Best Practices. Foster learning communities of practice.

Cognitive 48

Cognitive eLearning Strategy Simulations Case Study 48

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems. Build performance support into every blended learning effort.

Performance Support 190

Performance Support Blended Learning Support Performance 190

Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

The Award is given to professionals who continuously welcome challenges at the cutting edge of their expertise and are convincing and effective advocates of a humanistic approach to workplace learning and performance. Céline understands the power of community. We announce the award on 5 July, Jay’s birthday.

Diversity Training 163

Diversity Training Communities of Practice Internet Community 163

Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

When it’s about learning, the science tells us to focus on the performance objective, align meaningful practice, guide decisions with predictive models, and illustrate those models in context via examples. In the right place and time, they can be effective tools. Focusing on performance isn’t new, but it is important.

Trends 147

Trends Cognitive Virtual World Second Life 147

Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2020

The domain’s likely built upon some predecessor concepts that may be familiar, but can a motivated and self-effective learner get this in a reasonable amount of time, or will they benefit from a learning experience? Until schools also develop effective communication and collaboration skills, L&D would be useful.

Communities of Practice 222

Communities of Practice Community Roles Alternatives 222

Docebo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

EcoVadis provides sustainability ratings, benchmarks, and scorecards to businesses across all levels of the global supply chain — from their environmental impacts to their labor, human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement practices. Sadly, many businesses fall into this category regarding their sustainability practices.

Education 240

Education Docebo Case Study Diversity Training 240

Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

When it’s about learning, the science tells us to focus on the performance objective, align meaningful practice, guide decisions with predictive models, and illustrate those models in context via examples. In the right place and time, they can be effective tools. Focusing on performance isn’t new, but it is important.

Trends 130

Trends Cognitive Develop Virtual World 130

Web Courseworks

MAY 18, 2016

In his recent book Improving Professional Learning: Twelve Strategies to Enhance Performance , Knox offers a distillation of what he has learned over the course of his long and distinguished career. As could probably be deduced from its subtitle, Improving Professional Learning is first and foremost an immediately practical book.

Performance Support 133

Performance Support Performance eLearning Strategy Strategy 133

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2018

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. Using a Human Performance Improvement approach, they decentralized the work to more self-directed teams. Using a Human Performance Improvement approach, they decentralized the work to more self-directed teams. The problem was too much hierarchy.

Case Study 135

Case Study Social Networks Communities of Practice Social Network 135

Acorn Labs

JULY 9, 2023

Capability gap assessments evaluate, you guessed it, the gap between the level of competency employees perform a capability to compared to the standard they need to meet in their current or a future job role. Consider the manager assessment as the anchor to provide the most strategically-aligned take on performance.

Effectiveness 52

Effectiveness Assessment Leadership Metrics 52

Acorn Labs

JULY 9, 2023

Capability gap assessments evaluate, you guessed it, the gap between the level of competency employees perform a capability to compared to the standard they need to meet in their current or a future job role. Consider the manager assessment as the anchor to provide the most strategically-aligned take on performance.

Effectiveness 52

Effectiveness Assessment Leadership Metrics 52

PDG

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Pharmaceutical companies historically promote high-performing sales representatives to the front line managerial ranks based primarily on their performance in the field. Create a community of practice by linking members of the cohort with one another and having mentors encourage communication outside of curriculum activities.

Sales 40

Sales Strategy Create Communities of Practice 40

BrainCert

JUNE 12, 2023

To accomplish this, organizations must enhance their corporate training programs by integrating the appropriate Learning Management System (LMS), examining learning outcomes with eLearning tools, and assessing employee performance in the digital age. Employees can access and manage their own progress easily through the system itself.

Corporate eLearning 52

Corporate eLearning Diversity Training Association Learning Management System Digital 52

IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With new technologies emerging at an unprecedented rate, many employees find themselves lacking the necessary technical knowledge to navigate this digital era effectively. Technical training in the workplace is essential so keep reading to learn how it can be effectively used to reduce or even eliminate the digital skills gap.

Digital 113

Digital Skills Blended Learning Custom eLearning Development 113

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. Remember that any approach you take comes back to impacting business performance. You see the problem?

Metrics 52

Metrics Communities of Practice Culture Community 52

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 11, 2021

What if we have been trained to think and follow a method that isn’t as effective as they have told us – in school, in research, in studies after studies? COPs – Communities of Practice. Communities of practice started to appear as both standalone systems an within a system in the early 2000s.

Knowledge 66

Knowledge Skills Communities of Practice Develop 66

CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. Among the opportunities to support individuals and groups in performing, some are individual, such as job aids, and some are social.

Performance Support 72

Performance Support Performance Mentoring Suite 72

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What would an effective L&D unit be doing, and what would the employee/manager/exec experience be? I see employees experiencing less ‘training’ As I’ve said, effective training is expensive when done properly, and should be used only when significant skill shifts are needed.

Change 173

Change Performance Support Diversity Training Communities of Practice 173

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Functional units collaborate by sharing learning and best practices with each other. Managers and their direct reports frequently discuss what each needs to do to improve performance. It is a place where people are learning from each other and this is accepted practice. In some cases, a few minutes will do.

Culture 229

Culture Coaching Trust Performance Support 229

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We can shed our obsession with isolated formal learning and embrace the real question: how can we best support organisations and individuals to develop a culture of continuous learning and high performance. just-in-time performance tools (checklists, quick reference guides). ACTION MAPPING TO FOCUS ON PERFORMANCE. “

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Performance Support Social Networks Create 100

E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Using the 4+4 Part Employee Lifecycle as my guide, I will share my thoughts on some of the ways in which your capability framework can add value to your organisation’s activities in terms of recruitment, onboarding, performance, and offboarding. Performance. Performance Management. Recruitment. Development.

Performance Support 139

Performance Support Assessment Enterprise Performance 139

Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2009

- eLearning Technology , June 3, 2009 Student Guide: Introduction to ‘Wikis’ in Blackboard - Don't Waste Your Time , June 12, 2009 Discovering Instructional Design 11: The Kemp Model - The E-Learning Curve , June 10, 2009 I Say Instructional Designer, You Say Tomah-toe - Learning Visions , June 9, 2009 Attribution in a Web 2.0

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Analysis Social Network Network 100

Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2013

We know what leads to effective learning outcomes. And we’ve known it for decades (just because MOOCs are new doesn’t mean their pedagogies are): clear models, annotated examples, and most importantly deep and meaningful practice focused on significant skill shifts (let alone addressing the emotional side of the equation).

Change 196

Change Simulations Performance Support Pedagogy 196

Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

Effective practices for connecting with remote employees, developing teams with widely distributed members, and managing performance remotely continue to evolve. Monitor results, so you know which models and which skills are most effective. Communities of practice. External hires.

Teams 90

Teams Skills Management Leadership 90

Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In this article, I will explain 6 strategies that you can use to effectively engage and motivate your millennial workforce. Both of these would help us in defining the required learning strategies and training Millennials effectively. Why Do You Need A Different Learning Strategy For Your Millennial Workforce? Millennials spend 5.4

eLearning Strategy 67

eLearning Strategy Strategy Effectiveness Corporate eLearning 67

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. I mean, we all know it's hard to definitively isolate the effects of learning on performance, either positive or—we know that.

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. I mean, we all know it's hard to definitively isolate the effects of learning on performance, either positive or—we know that.

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Actio Learning

JANUARY 27, 2022

[updated from the original publication of February 2019} We find the challenge of designing, and engineering, effective blended learning experiences exciting and compelling. and methods of collaboration (social, communities of practice , etc.). What is blended learning? In his view, blended learning ".

Blended Learning 52

Blended Learning Compliance Training Blended Authoring Tools 52

Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 11, 2011

Informal learning includes certain social learning tools like wikis, communities of practice, expert directories, etc., but you can learn informally without it being social (for example, books, self-study programs, JIT performance support tools). It refers to learning done in a social context.

Wiki 189

Wiki Social Learning Informal Learning Social 189

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 22, 2013

I decided to take this on, thinking about an org that was already in operation, with it’s goals, processes, and practices, and what I might do if I were to come in and get it going (with the support of the executive team to do what I thought was right). Again, with a performance strategy focus. This is related to the first point.

Cognitive 180

Cognitive Performance Support Screencast Compliance Training 180

ID Reflections

JULY 20, 2011

A lurker might very well be giving back by performing better at their jobs, by sharing insights with others in the context of their daily work by using the learning gleaned from lurking. This is especially true of communities in enterprises. Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. From Lurking builds commonality.Sometimes.

Communities of Practice 203

Communities of Practice IBM Community Jive 203

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Will we still continue to speak about learning as an activity to be undertaken in order to be effective at work? How do we as L&D tackle this? Will L&D as we know it continue to exist? Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture?

Network 202

Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

L&D executives, business professionals and training thought leaders learned the importance of formulating effective strategies for the future to be at par with their competitors. As opposed to speeding up performance, formal training slowed down the speed. 5 major lessons learned in 2021.

Metrics 89

Metrics Lesson Performance Support Unison 89

PDG

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Even though setting clear, measurable goals is Selling 101, effective sales leaders need to consider modifying their approach with remote teams. You can also create internal communities of practice around skill sets that need continual attention or specific projects or tasks. Provide Clear Direction and Coaching.

Sales 40

Sales Teams Strategy Virtual World 40

Obsidian Learning

AUGUST 27, 2020

Functional performance support, focused learning, effective means of training delivery, and organizational support are key to ensuring employee engagement. Learning Need #1: Performance Support. What it must be is fit for purpose, clearly communicated, and easily accessible. Supporting Employee Learning Needs Virtually.

Environment 59

Environment Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Performance Support 59

Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A more organic approach, allowing relationships to develop naturally, is usually more effective. Let’s look at some practical examples. When an employee needs to build specific technical skills, he or she might be directed to the company’s Community of Practice in that area. Support Performance on the Job.

Social 56

Social Communities of Practice Performance Support Forum 56