Performance Learning Productivity

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performance.learning.productivity: Getting to the Core of Learning Content in the Internet Age

Performance Learning Productivity

There is an argument that we all need to learn less if we want to know more. The ‘learning’ referred to here is what we know as formal structured learning activities - classes, courses, programmes, and eLearning. The course is content-rich. The argument goes like this. The expenses process had 12 steps.

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Building a Culture of Continuous Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

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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Embedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges

Performance Learning Productivity

(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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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. CEOs and Learning Professionals as Change Agents Not only does effective leadership fundamentally come down to changing people’s behaviour, that’s what ‘learning’ is too.

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The Power of X – Experiential Learning in Today’s World

Performance Learning Productivity

It’s generally accepted that most of the learning that occurs within our organisations takes place outside formal training and learning events. The majority of our learning comes from the new and different experiences we have in our daily work. Of the three actions that have most impact, two involve experiential learning.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

These turbulent economic times have not been kind to two of the large publishers of catalogues and journals - Reader's Digest and Learning Tree International. Learning Tree has been around since 1974. Learning Tree International's Approach Learning Tree International recently published its F3Q09 earnings. million ($1.5

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ID - Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world?

Performance Learning Productivity

Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce learning content. And ‘action’ is the key word.