Mike Taylor

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This is an informative conversation that touches on things like “What technology do organizations need to keep up with learners?”, “What learning tech categories are promoting human-centered learning?” People and organizations who are good at this have a distinct advantage over those who don’t. Free registration req’d ).

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

There is a solution that can help bridge this gap and empower both individuals and organizations to thrive in the digital world – technical training. Without employees who have the necessary digital skills, organizations may struggle to stay competitive in today’s digital age. There are three things in life you can’t avoid.

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Convergence Training

APRIL 22, 2019

We’ve written before about what a learning organization is and what are some of their traits, and we’ve even talked about how to integrate safety departments into learning organization efforts (see this Safety & Learning Organizations article or this recorded Integrating Safety into Learning Organizations ASSP webinar ).

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PDG

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The leader discussed the highest priorities for the organization: “I’m most concerned about the development of tomorrow’s sales leaders. I know that if I have solid folks leading my organization, then I don’t have to worry about my reps because they’ll be as good as the people who lead them.”. The Changing Face of Sales Leadership.

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 7, 2019

Surprises and Organizations. In his post, Mark Britz ( @britz ) talks about how organizations can put themselves in a position to have few surprised by being “highly connected and frictionless in its knowledge sharing…are rewards them for it”. The Unsurprisable Organization Mark Britz. Thanks for reading!

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Limestone Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For many L&D/T&D professionals, a conference is an opportunity to delve into a community of practice where you can see how other professionals are incorporating new innovations and tools into their work. What could have used improvement? Are there any areas you want to focus on in 2020?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Instructor-facilitated workshop – meeting convened by an instructor; participants learn from experience of working together on solving a problem or creating something new. Business case-study – drawing lessons from discussing the documented story of actual events in another organization.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Take a look, then tell me how much you think I should charge, whether anyone in your organization might want to sign up, and what else you’d like to see. Workshop begins mid-July 2012.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. The MOOC format is primarily learner-driven and learner-directed.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

The term “course” is clearly inappropriate to describe an initiative that involves supporting informal learning, e.g. helping teams to establish Communities of Practice for knowledge sharing and continuous learning and performance improvement.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

It means that an individual’s personal activity stream will consist of all their subscribed activity streams – from all their formal learning initiatives as well as from their work teams and communities too. I use an ESN (Yammer in fact) to host the online workshops I run.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I chose the people listed in my groups because I consider each of them is contributing something significant to their own community of interest, they are all very knowledgeable and all are willing to discuss and share their ideas with the wider community. Tags: communities of practice followers TweepML Twitter.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. The MOOC format is primarily learner-driven and learner-directed.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

A Social Business is one that embraces and cultivates a spirit of collaboration and community throughout its organization—both internally and externally.”. Community management. Increasing interest in building and managing learning communities as part of blended programmes. Supporting work teams. Function of L&D.

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Learnnovators

MAY 11, 2015

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. If the learning organization doesn’t get into that 70 percent and use social media, they’re going to get left behind.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2015

One of the ways to keep on top of our game, and remain on the cutting edge of relevant skills and knowledge is to be a part of communities of practices and to focus on building and maintaining our PLNs with a deliberate intention to learn, share and collaborate. Why is building a PLN so critical, especially today?

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Learnnovators: As the CEO and Chief Unlearning Officer at Internet Time Alliance, you have been on an incredible mission to help organizations work smarter by embedding learning and collaboration into the workflow. Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. How are organizations seeing this phenomenon?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

When Mike Kennedy joined the National Basketball Association in 2012 as director of learning and leadership development, the organization was stuck in an old-school learning environment under long-time commissioner David Stern. He would later expand the program to leaders across the organization. “I An MBA for the NBA.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Although learning is proven to contribute to business success, slashed budgets have put many organizations’ learning efforts on the chopping block, opening the door for blending learning. To do so, organizations have to answer the what, how and when of training. • Inventory the capabilities of their team members.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

The Coherent Organization. A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. An effective community of practice is like a beehive. It organizes itself, buzzes with activity and produces honey for the markets. We learn to do the job on the job.

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EI Design

AUGUST 19, 2020

Organizations need to create a digital workplace that can easily move from 100% in office to 100% working remotely. With remote working and social distancing at play, classroom training/ILT is not a feasible option right now and organizations must undertake a rapid Digital Transformation. eLearning Trends in 2020 – Informal Learning.

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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.

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EI Design

JANUARY 28, 2020

Today, the term eLearning is being replaced by Mobile Learning as more and more organizations use this approach as the significant mode for training delivery. To practice and hone skills to manage the current job better. New skills or skills to grow in the organization. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Learning. Solve problems.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. In a few seconds, it reduced my 116-page manuscript to 10 items. You are learning to learn how to become the person you wrote the obit for. It’s learning to know versus learning to be.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 23, 2023

Another takeaway from her session is that the escape room was designed as a facilitated workshop, so it’s not a standalone experience. You know, we are trying to create change in our organizations. I don’t receive anything for recommending TLDC; I just really love the organization. We are people who are agents for change.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I’d also like to mention that these tips work if you’re looking for a new job or if you’re trying to position yourself in your current organization. This is true if your opportunities exist inside or outside your organization. Or go talk to people in your organization about what you want to do and find out how you can get there.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Learnnovators: As the CEO and Chief Unlearning Officer at Internet Time Alliance, you have been on an incredible mission to help organizations work smarter by embedding learning and collaboration into the workflow. Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. How are organizations seeing this phenomenon?

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2011

Hardy said DAU’s learning goals are all about the job: preparing for the job — courses — and supporting the job — communities of practice, continuous learning, knowledge sharing tools and mission assistance. The late afternoon included a series of workshops and a CLO town hall.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Navy, many old-style organizations were “built by geniuses so they could be run by idiots.” Organizations that don’t learn can’t keep up. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance.

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Jay Cross

JULY 31, 2012

Communities of practice enable the integration of work and learning. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE. Contributors to the (social) design phase will be entitled to a discount on the workshop fee! _. The Coherent Organization JAY CROSS | WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012. So far he’s made over $6 million in ticket sales.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 15, 2009

Today I am presenting at Immaculata University on the topic of Creating a Vibrant Learning Community as part of a faculty workshop. Communities Of Practice View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides (although SlideShare did something to some of the photographs on my slides.sorry about that.)

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

If you want outcomes that are comparable or better than what you were getting from instructor-led workshops, you have to do more than just throw things online. Sensing patterns and helping to develop emergent work and learning practices. At least with eLearning you can skip right on by and get to your real learning.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2011

This is especially helpful if you’re trying to get your subject matter experts to help organize the course content. Here’s a list of some of my other upcoming speaking events and conferences: June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. It’s not too complicated.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This means not just able to do their jobs, but also being members of the community of practice in their area and continuing to update their skills. And the team should ideally be composed of professionals.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

One thing common to many rapid elearning developers is that while their organizations will fund the purchase of rapid authoring tools, they do little else to fund the development of the assets required to make the elearning course look good and be effective. June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 29, 2011

The main reason is that we still haven’t figured out how to determine our ROI; so many organizations aren’t always clear what value we bring. Your organization may want you to crank out click-and-read courses like there’s no tomorrow. I started reading an article in about Etienne Wenger and his book on Communities of Practice.

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