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He Had a Bad Day

Tony Karrer

We can do better or worse at creating opportunities for people to learn. I'd personally rather have us talk performance, but the industry has landed on learning, e.g., CLO, LMS, WLP, oh and eLearning. And good luck with getting us to stop using the term learning instead of training. So learning is better than training as a term.

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Esse quam videri

The Learning Circuits

The cover story of the last issue tells WLP (workplace learning and performance) professionals that Business Acumen is Priority One. The article, Build Your Business Acumen , tells us that we WLP professionals "need to think and talk like their internal customers." This is fine advice but it doesn't go far enough.

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Learning Styles: What Is All the Fuss About?

OpenSesame

For example, several years ago, I learned how to create models in MS Access used to mine lots of pages of financial data to summarize and report on trends. Workplace Learning & Performance (WLP) is a contemporary definition crafted to encompass the various aspects and practices that are a part of the field.