The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Communicate clearly and often – Do not assume that in this age of email, cell phones, text messaging, and Web conferencing, people are getting the information they need. In a learning culture, people are continually sharing needed information with the people who need to know. In some cases, a few minutes will do.

Culture 229

Culture Coaching Trust Performance Support 229

Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

For employees, remote work provides a range of benefits. Remote and hybrid work does not lend itself to creating informal connections and relationships with others at work. Harvard Business Review identified these area as needing the most attention: Communication. Communities of practice. Coordination.

Teams 92

Teams Skills Management Leadership 92

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. Providing support when needed, and leveraging the power of people will be key. Does this make sense?

Change 173

Change Performance Support Diversity Training Communities of Practice 173

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? How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world?

Network 202

Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Here are a few ideas for encouraging informal learning in the workplace. Informal learning in the workplace appeared first on Obsidian Learning.

Informal Learning 40

Informal Learning Classes Informal Wiki 40

Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

A sound L&D strategy can mean many things: from face-to-face formal courses to mentoring relationships to full-featured learning management systems and all the technology that helps people share ideas and learn. But it must also support all the informal learning that happens organically in the workplace. A CoP is not a team.

Companies 49

Companies Strategy Communities of Practice Community 49

IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’ll also explore some benefits of providing employees with the opportunity to enhance their digital skills and you’ll learn some practical strategies for implementing technical training. That doesn’t necessarily mean providing them with general PowerPoint training either.

Digital 107

Digital Skills Blended Learning Custom eLearning Development 107

eLearning Brothers

MAY 22, 2017

There are so many amazing features to this package, including either a Plus Membership to The eLearning Guild or a Professional Plus Membership to the Association for Talent and Development (ATD), a premium subscription to the most well-known self-paced video training library on the planet, and 1-on-1 mentoring with an eLearning Brothers mentor.

eLearning Guild 109

eLearning Guild Industry Develop Newsletter 109

E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

As a trainer, you will smash the “10” with an informative and engaging workshop filled with handouts, scenarios, role plays, activities etc. Then your trainees return to their desks, put the handouts in a drawer, and try to remember all the important information for as long as humanly possible.

Wiki 100

Wiki Communities of Practice Poll Instructional Design 100

Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice.

Social Networks 66

Social Networks Summary Emergent Classroom 66

Matrix

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The solution I found after a couple of sessions in which the feedback was that ‘the trainer did not provide enough personal examples’ was to incorporate stories of Subject Matter Experts. The modern employee has very limited time and wants to get the information only when it is needed. Read more: How many types of mentoring are there?

Communities of Practice 61

Communities of Practice Podcasts Podcaster Podcasting 61

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. It’s always informal. Shared practices create bonds between people. We are all members of multiple communities of practice. Barn raising.

Communities of Practice 85

Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Kapp: You tackle a big concept in your book which is “how to integrate formal, informal, social, developmental, and experiential learning in a comprehensive strategy for building knowledge and skills.” The other area I researched to inform the learning environment design framework was the arena of self-directed learning.

Conversation 100

Conversation Authoring Social Networks PENS 100

Actio Learning

JANUARY 27, 2022

sources of information ( resource repositories , job aids, etc.), and methods of collaboration (social, communities of practice , etc.). If factors relating to the environment, availability of information, quality of the process(es), employee motivation, etc., In his view, blended learning ".

Blended Learning 52

Blended Learning Compliance Training Blended Authoring Tools 52

Learnnovators

MARCH 21, 2016

As a trainer, you will smash the “10” with an informative and engaging workshop filled with handouts, scenarios, role plays, activities etc. Then your trainees return to their desks, put the handouts in a drawer, and try to remember all the important information for as long as humanly possible. These can form part of the assessment.

Wiki 100

Wiki Corporate eLearning Communities of Practice Instructional Design 100

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Steve Wexler who runs eLearningGuild research has been producing some really interesting information recently. He recently provided me some information about what learning delivery methods were being used and particularly if they were trending up or down. So here's the graph showing all of the trending information.

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Methods Wiki Trends eLearningGuild 140

Matrix

AUGUST 11, 2020

Baby Boomers and Gen Zs for one, seem to have absolutely nothing in common and yet learning specialists are faced with the task of providing both these generations — along with the ones between them — with access to valuable educational materials, suited for their very diverse (and quite often divergent) needs and preferences.

Diversity Training 52

Diversity Training Specialist Cognitive Micro-Learning 52

Jane Hart

APRIL 20, 2012

As it is, they will never again be able to keep up with the fast speed of business and provide everything everyone needs to know in a timely fashion, so it makes good commonsense to do so. The PKM framework is based on eight years of practical research and use. Contact Harold harold@jarche.com or me jane.hart@c4lpt.co.k

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PKM Learning Strategy Compliance Training Strategy 210

Docebo

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, it is through using social technologies that the greatest opportunities now reside to provide an interactive and collaborative place where employees can share, critique, and validate their collective experiential knowledge. Externalization: Tacit-to-Explicit.

Knowledge 100

Knowledge Roles Technology Docebo 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The recent addition of related terms (relationship factors) in eLearning Learning that show what how related terms are to a given result set provides some interesting insights. I already pointed to some of the Interesting Information that we could see as we compare what different bloggers write about.

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GeoLearning GeoConnect Learnframe Yugma 100

Training Industry

MARCH 17, 2014

study on first-time manager training focused on a range of best practices, covering program design to preferred delivery methods. We also asked participants to help us understand what topics areas should be covered during training, providing a roadmap of what to consider when creating your company’s first step in leadership development.

Leadership 79

Leadership Blended Learning Develop Case Study 79

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Even with limited development skills, there is an area within Helium, where a template is available, and code snippets – you select say X, the code is provided, and a simple cut and paste. Thought Industries is for customer education/partner training, associations, and other B2B/B2C, like training providers for example.

Learning System 97

Learning System System Metrics vendor 97

ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

While courses will still have their place, the approach to course design itself will need to become more dynamic, rapid and inclusive of informal and social components. This requires them to reach out to the right people, access the right content and use their own PLN to acquire the information or skill required.

Roles 167

Roles Social Media OER Performance Support 167

Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

I spent the greater part of the weekend mulling over the practice of working out loud, what makes some folks adopt the habit with ease while others struggle, and what could be some of the possible enabling factors that support working out loud. A community grows through conversation, collaboration, and showcasing of work in progress.

eLearning Strategy 133

eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. Here, LMS functionality is provided within the context of your principal day-to-day tool for learning, knowledge-sharing and collaboration, not the other way round. However, there is a key difference.

Performance Support 95

Performance Support Saba Support Blended Learning 95

Chronus

JANUARY 11, 2022

Today, more and more companies are turning to mentoring to elevate their DEI strategy within their employee experience. For government consultancy LMI , formalizing their already existing informal mentoring culture in order to serve their diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEI&A) objectives just made sense.

Mentoring 98

Mentoring Program Metrics Diversity Training 98

Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Each new employee is supported through the programme by a team of mentors. The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor.

Communities of Practice 77

Communities of Practice SharePoint SAP Mentoring 77

Acorn Labs

JULY 9, 2023

Co-ownership between HR and R&D As mentioned, R&D leaders are the perfect channel of information from the workforce to HR, which is why you want to define their accountability in this process. 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

Co-ownership between HR and R&D As mentioned, R&D leaders are the perfect channel of information from the workforce to HR, which is why you want to define their accountability in this process. Consider the manager assessment as the anchor to provide the most strategically-aligned take on performance.

Effectiveness 52

Effectiveness Assessment Leadership Metrics 52

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Each new employee is supported through the programme by a team of mentors. The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor.

Communities of Practice 75

Communities of Practice SharePoint SAP Mentoring 75

CLO Magazine

APRIL 13, 2017

If you’re sponsoring or developing a peer learning program, you know that professional communities of practice are a cost-effective way to leverage the collective wisdom and experience of a group of leaders with similar roles, challenges or interest areas. Participants often appreciate being asked for their guidance.

Program 64

Program Strategy Case Study Diversity Training 64

Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2013

Building a community of peer-mentors. Using simple social software to create a network of practice or a community of practice. We’ve not been supporting the emergent and informal. How can you make Mentorship and Reverse Mentorship work together? The kids learn from the elders, the elders learn from the kids.

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Google Docs Stock Google Blended Learning 188

PDG

JULY 17, 2019

We learned leadership informally, through participation in sports teams, youth organizations, or community groups. A good simulation can provide a safe environment to practice new behaviors, try out models, and get a feel for how people will react to you. by Rich Mesch.

Leadership 40

Leadership Program Simulations Toolkit 40

The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Mentoring – a relationship in which senior leaders impart their knowledge and wisdom on employees who are learning to be leaders. Content apps – using a software application on a mobile device to provide information and instruction on-the-job, just-in-time.

Simulations 100

Simulations Case Study Wiki Performance Support 100

Litmos

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Then, they supported the users in maintaining and updating the information. You’re also likely tapping into expertise from their community of practice. There’s also what comes through social media, including community groups and trusted relationships. This is in lieu of a mentor/guide doing the same.

Content 69

Content Corporate eLearning Diversity Training Wiki 69

ID Reflections

MAY 25, 2015

I spent the greater part of the weekend mulling over the practice of working out loud , what makes some folks adopt the habit with ease while others struggle, and what could be some of the possible enabling factors that support working out loud. A community grows through conversation, collaboration, and showcasing of work in progress.

Strategy 100

Strategy Attitudes Community Conversation 100

Training Industry

MAY 30, 2017

These challenges include the transformation of the traditional learning model, the need to be agile and the existence of communities of practice. New Learning Initiatives While the concept of a group is essential in training, participants can learn alone to a certain extent, provided they are given the tools they need.

Education 52

Education Blended Learning Pedagogy Virtual World 52