Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Keep things moving; breaking the chain of concentration to launch a fire safety course in the LMS while my hair is on fire makes no sense. Enable learning and support within the workflow. Give me 90-seconds of Stop Drop & Roll and then let’s get on with it.

Attention 100

Attention Performance Support LMS Support 100

Living in Learning

MAY 27, 2014

When a Performer confronts a “Do I cut the red wire or the blue wire” moment of need; logging into the LMS and searching for the reference knowledge buried in the "How to Disarm a Chorizo Sausage" eLearning course is not an option…especially when the fully-armed chorizo sausage they''re facing has a ticking timer attached.

eLearning Consultant 180

eLearning Consultant Performance Support Agile Consulting 180

Living in Learning

MARCH 20, 2015

Courses no longer fit. When your hair is on fire there is no time to log into the LMS and take a course on fire safety. Consider the point of work as the new classroom if you like, but recognizing the application of assets at the point of work represents new kinds of assets…a.k.a. Performance Support [PS].

Portal 100

Portal Performance Support Agile Consulting 100

Living in Learning

AUGUST 5, 2013

The design effort I’m suggesting is not just larger in scope, it is involves a level of holistic discovery that is broader than we typically chase after when building training classes/courses.

Performance Support 191

Performance Support Instructional Design Support Performance 191

Living in Learning

MAY 1, 2014

Training serves as a great appetizer, but the main course may reside on a buffet where the Performer can choose from a mix of choices based upon the nature of their hunger [moment of need]. EPSS Learning Ecosystems Performer Support embedded performer support EPS learning ecosystem moment of need PS'

Performance Support 159

Performance Support Performance Support Activities 159

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2012

We sold sexy flash-based on-line courses. Selling the shift from classroom training to on-line e-learning, and then back again as a compromise to protect a draft pick and a player to be named later. We sold the need for a big honking LMS. The biggest “sale” of all was that “Training drives performance!”

Performance Support 212

Performance Support Performance Support Flash 212

Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

STEP CHANGE is what we have left as an option when all the innovation that got us to where we are today has run its course. Sustained capability is the ultimate outcome we seek, and sustained capability is at the heart of a Performance Paradigm.

Instructional Design 140

Instructional Design Change ADDIE Agile 140

Living in Learning

MARCH 24, 2014

Heck, we have proof; they loved the course per our smile sheets, and they passed the test with flying colors. We know everyone leaving our class on “Digging the Perfect Hole” knows which end of a shovel to hold and the finer conceptual points of digging a very fine hole. With confidence we can say they have the potential to actually dig one.

Performance Support 133

Performance Support Assessment Classes Support 133

Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

And in the course of what you read here I just might refer to training as the “ugly baby"; however, not so much at the course-level, but at the level of our intentions for the role that baby plays in giving back to the organization later in the span of its life. But this book is not about babies. It is about training.

Emergent 124

Emergent Reference Roles Course 124

Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

How many process decisions by managers prevent creation of material waste while taking an on-line training course? Ground zero needs to be the point of impact for training, and that point exists today, downstream from our traditional classroom and on-line course venues and in the context of actual workflows.

Roles 145

Roles Simulations Social Networks LinkedIn 145

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Of course, at www.SmokeysBerryBushBusters.com , a social networking site for bears who view foraging for berries as an art form. technologies in the course of our own workflows. He would also be compelled to brag about his accomplishments to his bear buds. In other words, he would socialize his discovery with his bear colleagues.

Simulations 100

Simulations Social Networks Training Train 100

Living in Learning

AUGUST 8, 2009

In the course of following several key blogs and actively collaborating and contributing to at least as many communities of learning professionals, I find my depth of perception and the richness of perspective on current issues and trends alive and well, growing in a wealth of diversity of thought.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Compliance Training Instructional Design Sun 100

Living in Learning

JULY 24, 2009

Declining training budgets, classroom utilization & attendance, and increases in incomplete e-learning courses are but a few indicators we all see today. I am tempted to ask, “Why figure out what is next when we are failing on what is right now?” We have some “now&# problems to address.

Compliance Training 100

Compliance Training Performance Support Learning Environment Classroom 100

Living in Learning

MAY 24, 2012

There is no hiding that online education is growing, and isn’t going to stop. The best thing administrators can do for their online programs is to hold on tight and watch their rate of growth.

Online 140

Online Attitudes Education Quality 140

Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

The concept of a learning shift represents a course correction by the USS Training Department. Why make a learner log into the LMS, re-launch a training course to page through to a useful matrix? We are under full steam and headed into the shallows, and are in danger of running aground. Where it resides must be easily accessible.

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Design Support Instructional Design 113

Living in Learning

AUGUST 6, 2009

It requires effort and constant course correction to remain aligned with the primary current. Things that remain in the strongest current tend to be there not by accident, but by intent. A motor, a sail, fins, or flippers propel intention into the power of the current.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Diversity Training Social Networks Training 100

Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Of course not! Timelines and project management accountabilities assigned, synchronized, monitored, and jeopardy situations identified to activate contingencies (planned in advance). This all makes perfect sense, right? Now consider this question: “Is IT the only organization in your enterprise involved in Change?”

Change 113

Change Leadership Management Metrics 113

Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

We don’t have the right courses in the catalog, and I need your help to fix that.”. I am not sure I’d describe this effort as scientific, as no algorithms incurred harm in the course of this study, nor were any of the responses weighted in any way. I gave him my standard consultant’s reply.

Consulting 140

Consulting Organization Blended Learning Wink 140

Living in Learning

AUGUST 14, 2009

Prepare can be synonymous with “pre-work” which could mean completion of an on-line course as a pre-requisite for a formal classroom program that takes place in the Deploy phase. We all have heard the rumors of how quickly learning retention drops off upon learner’s leaving the classroom or logging off the completed online training course.

Instructional Design 170

Instructional Design ADDIE Blended Learning Design 170