Performance Learning Productivity

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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

Performance Learning Productivity

The global training industry is large and in growth again post-2008. Data provided by the US membership organisation Training Industry suggests annual growth around 6% per year since 2009. Although the Training Industry and ASTD figures vary a little it is clear that the global training industry is a large and apparently healthy one.

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Building a Culture of Continuous Learning

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Classes, courses and curricula – structured learning events – don’t provide all the tools in the toolkit. They’re bit-players in a much larger world of organisational learning and performance. Example: Re-thinking On-boarding Training On-boarding and induction programmes are usually fertile ground for structured learning.

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70-20-10: Origin, Research, Purpose

Performance Learning Productivity

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. He has been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010).

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Re-thinking Workplace Learning: extracting rather than adding

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In other words if people have the opportunity to learn and develop as part of their work and they are supported by their manager, then learning will be much better transformed into measurable behavioural change and performance improvement. The thinking is still principally about adding learning into work.

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Embedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges

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(a version of this article was originally written as background for an #OzLearn chat held on Twitter, 11th November 2014) The Power of Embedded Learning A common finding that has emerged from study after study over the past few years is that learning which is embedded in work seems to be more effective than learning away from work.

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

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The first chapter of ‘ 70:20:10 towards 100% performance’ (the recent book by Arets, Jennings & Heijnen) is titled ‘the training bubble’. It takes a quick look at the history, the lure, and some of the problems that have been brought about by thinking only in the formal training paradigm rather than in the performance paradigm.

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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

Performance Learning Productivity

A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. In fact learning is behaviour change above all else. People often get confused between ‘remembering’ and ‘learning’. There is no other way.

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