Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The eLearning Guild, in queuing up interest in their Learning Solutions/Performance Ecosystem conference, asked for some thoughts on the role of technology and training. And, of course, I obliged. You can see them here. And that’s all too rare. Again, the full thoughts can be found on their blog. technology'

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

It’s about systematically changing behavior, developing new skills to meet ever-changing needs. That’s why we invest in learning: training or elearning. Here’re some signs that your elearning might not be working: Your learning unit develops courses on demand. You work from PDFs and PPTs to develop your course.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2022

What folks really mean by a corp uni is a training academy, but a uni isn’t a good model. Similarly, I’ve sounded off on the problems of Training & Development, or Learning & Development. Training and learning are means to an end.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2021

It can also require developing pre-conscious responses, such as we train airline pilots to respond to emergencies. . You can develop expertise much quicker with lots of opportunities to apply the knowledge. The aforementioned pilots are training for situations they never hope to see!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The context was an individual who saw orgs having competency frameworks, but only focusing on skill development. Now, the reason I joined with IBSTPI (the International Board for Standards in Training, Performance, and Instruction) was to learn more about competencies. The question was where the focus should be. Should you care?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So really, the only options are to support performance in the moment and develop them over time. In the other case, an organization is executing on a shift from a training philosophy to a performance focus. Which of course I laud, but the powers-that-be expect it to yield less training without much other change.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 22, 2022

For instance, in thinking about performance & development (as an alternative to learning & development), I put training first. Similarly, in my strategy work, I likewise suggest the first step is to put learning science more central in training. Here, the order is: Formal Learning. Performance Support.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This wasn’t just gratuitous fun, however, but was explicitly run to connect to Learning & Development folks (LnD). Organized by the Training, Learning, and Development Community (a competitor to LDA ? Last Friday, I joined in on a Dungeons & Dragons (DnD) campaign.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 14, 2010

The eminent Jane Bozarth has started a new site called Training Book Reviews. 2) of criticism about a venerated work that has perhaps developed an undeserved glow. 2) of criticism about a venerated work that has perhaps developed an undeserved glow. 1) on a favorite, must-own title, or maybe even.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

The first topic is: the future of the training department in the Collaborative Enterprise. And this, to me, defines the future of the training department. Training used to be important, as skilled workers were critical. I’ve written before about the changes I see coming for organizations (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 22, 2023

If you want to truly develop a skill, sufficient practice, over time, is required. It’s like building muscle, or training for a sport; occasional practice isn’t sufficient. For one, the ‘learning’ mechanism that strengthens our learning can only do so much before it needs sleep.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 3, 2021

As I’ve been developing online workshops, I’ve been thinking more about the type of assessment I want. As context, many moons ago we developed a course on speaking to the media. I was part of a new media consortium, and was partnered with an experienced CD ROM developer to create an asynchronous elearning course. .

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 14, 2023

Still, it will require adjusting how we develop, to impact what we develop. I’ll be offering a free webinar with Training Magazine Network on the core principles of LXD on Wednesday March 22 at 9AM PT (noon ET). Process and product are linked at the wrist and ankles. That’s my take, I welcome yours.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 7, 2023

This up front work keeps us from using training to address a misalignment between incentives and desired behavior, for instance. Training isn’t going to keep people from doing things that are in their best interest! The Learning Development Accelerator is running a mini-conference on performance consulting.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 29, 2021

As part of the Learning Development Conference that’s going on for the next five weeks (not too late to join in!), My take is that after 9/11, a lot of folks didn’t want to travel, so all training went online. Which meant that a lot of content-based training ended up being content-based elearning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Just as you design programs that include messaging, training, support, rewards, and more, you should also ensure that you’ve analyzed all the barriers to performance. In the long term, I reckon this is where we need to go as we move from learning to performance ( and development). your thoughts?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The other is to give them a ‘training set’ (also known as supervised learning), a body of data about inputs and decisions. You provide the inputs, and give feedback on the decisions until they make them in the same way.Then they generalize to decisions that they haven’t had training on.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 10, 2023

Thus, we shouldn’t be training unless it absolutely, positively, has to be in the head when needed (such as in life-threatening situations such as aviation and medicine). Ok, so I’m being a bit provocative, but too often we err on the side of throwing training at it, even when it’s not the best solution.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2022

This is the first offering from the Learning Development Accelerator ( LDA ) offshoot, LDA Press. In my own words: LDA Press, an imprint of the Learning & Development Accelerator, is a boutique publisher focusing on evidence-informed titles that fill needed gaps in the literature while offering authors the relationship they deserve.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Saw a post by Matthew Franz - where he tells us - I don't get e-learning 2.0 - and it made me wonder if Franz is a training specialist - who's not looking at more than training as a model for learning. Here's what he said: I just don't get why folks are trying to lump in wikis, blogs, rss, etc. as "e-learning." RSS, Blog, Wikis, etc.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We (the Learning Development Accelerator) just released Guy Wallace’s latest tome , The L&D Pivot Point. Which resonates with other data I’ve seen about the value of training interventions! Then, we had an interview with him to explain what it’s about.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Harold Jarche and Jay Cross have been talking about rethinking the training department, and I have to agree. In principle, if there is a ‘training’ department, it needs to be coupled with a ‘performance’ department and a ‘social learning’ department, all under an organizational learning & performance umbrella.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 12, 2019

And, I’ve also thought that the only way to really fix things is to train trainers of teachers to learn to facilitate learning around meaningful activity. For example, I worked on a project that was trying to develop some K12 curricula online, to provide support for learners in HS that might not have sufficiently capable learners.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Similarly in design, there’d be an expectation of iterative development and review, with testing. There’s a quote in the article The Great Training Robbery that estimates suggest only 10% of the multi-billions spent on training has any impact. Orgs will get the courses they ask for. That’s a staggering loss.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 1, 2021

You can still get them both: Millennials, Goldfish, and other Training Misconceptions: Debunking Learning Myths & Superstitions. Revolutionize Learning & Development: Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information Age. Of course, two of my books aren’t yet out of print.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 29, 2008

So when they say the same things of the management development programme they have asked me to develop, but getting access to SMEs and stakeholders is like pulling teeth, well then I have a hard time believing them. This is fantastic stuff that should be required reading for all Training Managers. Later in the post.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 27, 2021

As a short answer, I suggested that there should be 3(+) outcomes from effective soft skills training. . Actually, to create transferable versions, you’d need to develop the skills across domains. . So I think developing skills is important. Coupled, as well, with how could you find evidence of these observable differences.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 4, 2023

After we design practice, we can develop the associated content, etc. When we hear “we need sales training” or “we need to review the manufacturing process” or “we need a refresher on customer service”, it’s a bit vaguer. How do we get this focus? I see several ways.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2019

So when I parsed her “from training to modern workplace learning”, it resonated in many ways. And that’s about rethinking training to be about transformative experience design, performance support to be included, and informal learning to be also addressed. So here’s her framework with some comments.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You can quickly see why most training doesn’t work, cut through hype from vendors, create explanations about why myths are mythtaken, etc. This is also the topic of my online workshop through the Learning Development Accelerator. I’ll argue that these perspectives are valuable.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In appropriate ways; I’m reminded how the freight business got upended when companies thought they were in the train business and not the transportation business.) That includes a focus on having performers prepared up front and developed over time. Of course, this carries down to the individual level.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2022

Last week, in our Learning Development Accelerator You Oughta Know session, we had Harold Jarche as a guest. One attendee immediately thought about how it could be used in training sessions! Harold’s known for many things, but in particular his approach to continual learning. I checked and I hadn’t made a contribution!

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2017

Is it job training? E.g. if you were an accountant, or an engineer, or even a designer, with experience under your belt, you’d go for a master’s to serve as reflection in developing the concepts you perform under. Indeed, if I need to develop a practical skill, I need to perform the skills. Accounting?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2016

Helen started her career within the Royal Australian Navy across two branches (Training Development and Public Relations) as well as working within Service and external to Service (with Air Force and Army and Defence civilians), then with the Reserves. It’s wider than that.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2014

They’ve started with Entrepreneurship programs to create new businesses, and are supplementing with job training to prepare people to staff them. Partnerships and content development are already underway, so it’ll be a challenge to influence processes, but it’s a chance to have a real impact on something that matters.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 23, 2021

Consequently, I was pleased to find out that my fourth, Revolutionize Learning & Development , that I really wanted to see do well, was priced much more reasonably. I’m happy to say that the next one, Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions has been hiccup free.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Feb 25-27, Clark will serve as host of the Strategy Track at Training Magazine’s annual conference , opening with an overview and closing with a strategy-development session. Clark will be presenting in the Modern Workplace Learning track at the LearnTec conference in Karlsruhe, Germany that runs 29-31 January.

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