Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The topic today: Building Measurement into Our Training-Development Process. Guest speaker today is Roy Pollock, CLO of Fort Hill Company. Roy has a new book: Getting Your Money's Worth From Training & Development. Roy : "If I'm a business leader, I really need to know if training is working in order to invest $$."

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Sunday, August 23, 2009 Kineo Webinar: Compliance Training Case Study Kineo will be holding a free webinar on developing cost-effective compliance training on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Join Kineo and Mary K. Schottmiller J.D,

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 17, 2014

There''s formal training -- and then there''s all of the ways that we learn within the flow of work (performance support, collaboration, access to experts, knowledge management. Guild research: We continue to see a trend to replace more scheduled training (classroom, webinars, etc.) with more on-demand training.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Ive been working in the corporate training field since the early- to mid-90s. Most of that time, Ive worked for eLearning vendors: companies that design and develop eLearning programs for a wide variety of corporate clients.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

44 independent companies – 64 locations in 7 countries; 12,000 employees. 9 functional areas within company. Looked across company and identified four areas: triumph culture, Partnerships throughout the org with: SMEs, HR Ambassadors, CoP (clusters of subject matter experts) He has a staff of 4. Triumph U is young – 18 months.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Making Six Sigma Training Fun OK. Cammy: Although I like to think Im good-humored, I am leery of "humor" or "fun" (scare quotes are deliberate) injected into training like salt water into a frozen turkey.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Leveraging Technology to Drive Business Value Art Dobrucki, CPCU Director of Learning Strategy & Performance University of Farmers- Farmers Insurance Group of Companies Start with the end result in mind. Demonstrated that learning was able to drive results that the company was looking for with agents. Built on that success.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The learning team has to consult with the business on how to improve performance because it is “no longer about the learning team delivering improvements through training”. They ask each learner “What will you commit to do differently because of the training?” The Learning Campaign campaign has taken off!

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Learning Visions

APRIL 14, 2011

If you’re involved with training, I suspect the push for providing mobile solutions is getting stronger. Companies are starting to distribute iPads to their sales teams; practically everyone in corporate has a smart phone now. Mobile Learning – seems to finally be tipping.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 19, 2014

A drill company is in the hole business. eLearning, training, education, professional dev? Intuit (the makers of QuickBooks which completely disrupted the small business accounting market) – have an official company value: “Savor Surprise”. Give them a different incentive. Understand what business you’re really in.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 21, 2011

15 years ago I got a job as an instructional designer/multimedia producer at a company that created training programs delivered on CD ROMS. 10 years ago that same company was struggling to stay relevant as the world moved onto the Intranet and the dot.coms were busting. It sounded really glamorous to me.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2014

One of the struggles with mobile is that organizations are used to designing the way they always have and that fits within their existing models of what training is. Don’t eliminate core training – that still needs to take place. Case Study: Pharma company with lots of field reps. Mobile is different. Client asked for one thing.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 23, 2012

Data from one system (your CRM) may be living very close to other data (your company wiki). Your training content is now co-mingled and the lines are blurring. How are they accessing data during the day on their company smart phones? How do you and your company handle change ? Who are the stakeholders ? Get them on board.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Messy Training Not OK. But I dont think folks are comfortable with the notion that TEACHING or TRAINING can or should be messy. Should training be messy? Formal training, is by definition, not messy. Forget about it.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Metrics that don''t matter.learning orgs spend a energy tracking metrics that don''t matter: time spent, courses completed, passing scores, # attempts.these metrics show the costs of the training, but not of the value. As training professionals, can we create training solutions that impact those metrics?

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Analyst at Float @gwoodill Jeff Tillet mLearning Strategist and Evangelist at Float (formerly ID at T-mobile) @mojotillett Chad Udell at Float @visualrinse www.floatlearning.com 18 month old company with focus on mobile. floatlearning Agenda: conversation points Where we came from Where we are at? Where’s it going? So what does Float do?

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

Playground Mom: [blank stare] Me: corporate training. Playground Mom: [weak smile] Me: I create training for companies that's delivered on the computer. This was me yesterday: Playground Mom: So, what do you do? Me: I'm an instructional designer. I create eLearning. Playground Me: weak nod."Oh, Oh, I see."

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Dirty Words: Training, Learner, eLearning, Informal, Social, School, Learning What is the role of L&D specialists in working smarter? The future of the training department” (article by Harold and Jay) L&D people should be focused on removing barriers – helping people work smarter or better. Enterprise 2.0

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2014

Social Media Education: Decreases liability Converts employees to brand ambassadors (they live the brand day to day) It’s a professional development tool Saves companies money (get easy data without spending money) Digital Royalty University – they founded to go out and teach principles of social media. Use a blended learning approach.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

Is it the vendors? -- The LMS companies, the custom content developers, the off-the-shelf content creators. Is it the companies and people who create those tools? Is it the companies that give out the awards? Is it the companies who use eLearning to train their employees? The Industry.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2012

If you have an idea, a dream, a way to move your company forward, you need to latch onto that and share it and change the world. Questions from the crowd: If you’re doing product training – let’s hope you have a good product! TED and Twitter…people will trash your presentation if it’s not up to par. www.duarte.com for more!

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Tent cards, emails – what’s new Ongoing webinars to train and promote features and benefits (don’t turn on allt he features of your LMS right away – let people get used to it Recognize results Target learning strategy with specific needs that employees have (“how do I write a better marketing plan?”) Company newsletters.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

A lot of companies are throwing out their performance ratings and numbers – and that’s daunting, because leaders are so used to having those numbers. And she was interested in all the ways to help people, except classroom training. A lot of managers were asking for classroom training. The irony of this at a tech company.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 13, 2016

The uncanny valley: we’ll reject robots that are too human… David started a company in 2000: Ambient Things Creating things like an umbrella that glows when rain is nearby. You can set it up to track different things – how well your company is doing, the weather, stocks, etc. Ditto (David’s company) is – on behalf of brands.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 16, 2015

A shift happened a while ago -- we went from being training orgs to learning orgs. Most orgs - if they have a strategy -- have a training strategy. A training strategy - there are needs in the org and we address them via training. It''s finding the resources all around that support performance (not just training!).

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 15, 2015

Real-world examples Example: Pandora ( the bracelet company) They wanted to improve sales of a new product through training. They wanted to correlate training with performance. If we confirmed the hypothesis, the company would do X. So this was for code of conduct training. Customer demand will help.)

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2012

Reducing cognitive load – don’t want the learner thinking about how to get through the program, want them expending their cognitive load on the content… Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett – the layers that go into user design ( [link] ) When something doesn’t work in classroom training, you know immediately.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

No more retrograde person than the CTO in a company…they don’t want these changes. Training becomes a 24/7 things. But these changes are coming. The Facebookization of the enterprise.” Yammer, Socialcast, Jive, etc. taking these tools people use in their personal lives and bringing them to workplace.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2013

You will find co-working spaces – tons of people from competing companies sitting side by side and working together. Companies do this because sharing knowledge builds up everyone. Outside of tech sector, the idea of people moving from company to company, spending hours after hours to network, sharing code – is.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

These are my live blogged notes from the Training 2015 Conference and Expo happening this week in Atlanta. Performance Benchmarks External benchmark: How does your company compare to the competitors? Scrap learning rates, manager support for learning, delivering training at the time of need, increases in sales as a result of training.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

37%) Total cost of ownership (32%) Difficulty to maintain (68%) Lack of security/quality control (53%) Poll #4: Who is the audience for your training? Used by some companies. Is support going to be better in a proprietary company or an open source support? Sakai more education; Moodle more focus on corporate training world.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

I know of companies who only hire instructional designers and buy Rapid elearning tools and expect the ID to do it all themselves to reduce the cost and over head of hiring graphic designers as well. I hope this gives you a picture that once multi-nationals have entered they have changed the way in which companies work on elearning.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But we don’t usually have the $ to do that… “For far too long, training has used the smile sheet as the metric.” Training typically ends at the event – how does that help the learner when they get to the point of performance? If training is all you’ve got, then it better be REALLY good. This is not to teach, but to enable.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. A company or organization that youve admired from afar? Its admiration for a companys style and approach. Sunday, May 10, 2009 Corporate Crush, Realized Have you ever had a corporate crush? Its not a romantic thing.

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Learning Visions

MAY 20, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. No service companies. Clearly says something about the state of the fragmented eLearning market -- mostly small shops providing services or companies doing it in-house using all of the aforementioned tools. Whatever your analogy.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. I know of companies who only hire instructional designers and buy Rapid elearning tools and expect the ID to do it all themselves to reduce the cost and over head of hiring graphic designers as well.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Is it the vendors? -- The LMS companies, the custom content developers, the off-the-shelf content creators. Is it the companies and people who create those tools? Is it the companies that give out the awards? The Industry.

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