Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 20, 2014

Training Although the terms convey basic concepts, there seems still to be some confusion between the meaning of the words learning and training. It is a common problem and underlies many of the barriers that organisations encounter as they strive to develop and implement effective learning strategies.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 31, 2016

What’s the Link with Learning & Development? This is understandable because many of today’s learning and development practices emerged during the second half of the 20th century. Training became a huge industry. So developing good L&D practices for developing managers and others should be the same.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

He developed his thinking and ability through a discipline of reading and reflecting, through debating and exchanging ideas with others, and through lecturing. The quote started me thinking about the ways we measure learning and development in our organisations. There are two caveats about training.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 14, 2013

High performing individuals, teams and organisations focus on exploiting development opportunities in the workplace because that’s where most of the learning happens. An example might be the creation of some workplace activities as part of, or immediately following, a leadership development programme.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 12, 2013

The part that formal, directed learning plays in overall organisational capability may be important at times, but organisations aspiring towards Peter Senge’s ‘learning organization’ – in other words, creating a culture of continuous learning - need to reach beyond simply improving structured training. What got us here won’t get us there’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

A decade ago the Corporate Executive Board published a report detailing the findings of a study into the role managers can play in employee development. It’s simply about developing approaches that help workers to learn more from their day-to-day work. The impact of this latter approach is profound.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 10, 2017

He been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010). We were working on a section of the course on planning for the development of future leaders.

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Performance Learning Productivity

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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Performance Learning Productivity

APRIL 1, 2013

In the past that strategy provided a more robust defence than it does now (see an earlier article about compliance training for a discussion on that issue). A Tool for (a fading) Industrial Society In his article, Donald also gave a pen-sketch of the origins of the Learning Management System (LMS) as training administration systems.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Full explanations of how the 70:20:10 approach can be used to help overcome the ‘training bubble’ Descriptions of five new performance-focused roles to support the use of 70:2010 The detailed tasks that need to be executed in each of these roles. BUY THE BOOK: www.702010institute.com Just eight of these sections are devoted to the problems.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The Research A 2009 study by the Learning & Development Roundtable, a division of the Corporate Executive Board, reported that on-the-job learning had three times the impact on performance improvement over formal training programs. By their very nature informal and social learning is embedded in the daily workflow.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 10, 2016

(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. Yet much of today’s education and training in the world of work remains fixed to an era long gone. Exactly the same could be said of adult training and development as of child education.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2016

If we put all our effort and resource into designing, developing and delivering courses we may be helping people, but we’re only supporting one aspect of organisational learning and performance improvement. Looking across the entire landscape of organisational learning and development, we see similar proxies to the case method being used.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 7, 2013

You’ll see overlap but also unique perspectives: Charles Jennings An increasing number of organisations, independent of size, nature or location, will acknowledge that their traditional training and development models and processes are failing to live up to the expectations of their leaders and workforce in a dynamic and global marketplace.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 5, 2017

As a Senior Manager at Microsoft, she developed new training practices and wrote an accessible white paper on the deeper aspects of learning design. The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2017 is presented to Marcia Conner. Marcia was an early leader in the movement for individual and social learning, and an innovator.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 24, 2017

Charles is a co-founder of the 70:20:10 Institute , as well as a leading thinker and practitioner in learning, development and performance”. Prior to the emergence of the internet, you could provide very rich development experiences in classrooms, workshops, business schools and so on, but this simply didn’t scale.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 28, 2010

Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. If we do so, then almost invariably their approach is around developing content in an ‘instructionally-sound way’ to produce a set of ‘learning interventions’. I pass with flying colours.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 16, 2013

The answer is that I will only know that through developing a level of trust in my sources of information and learning. And I will develop trust relationships by using the information, advice and expertise I’m provided with. The world of learning and development has also changed. L&D professionals need to take heed.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2016

He been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010). We were working on a section of the course on planning for the development of future leaders.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 28, 2016

(I wrote the original piece this article is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012. Yet one of the most useful tools for effective learning and development is reflection. Conversation is the ‘lubrication’ of learning and development. This holds true for learning in the workplace and in life. why did it happen?

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 27, 2016

So most children develop effective verbal communication skills early in life. Morgan McCall (who’s 1988 book with Michael Lombardo and Ann Morrison ‘ The Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop On The Job ’ explored the ‘70’ and ‘20’ elements of learning) explained these principles clearly in this 3-minute video clip.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 9, 2010

In fact it was primarily about connecting people - connecting people and helping them make their own connections between their data so it can be exchanged, made sense of in new contexts and some of it used to develop knowledge, skill and action, often in ways the originator had never thought of. To be honest, I don't have a definitive list.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 18, 2009

Last month I was asked to give my thoughts on the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) 2009 Annual Learning & Development Survey. Training/L&D is a big business. billion (that’s right BILLION) on employee learning and development (reported in the 2008 ASTD ‘State of the Industry’ publication).

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 23, 2015

Exploiting and extending learning opportunities from point solutions (learning events) to continuous development (learning as a process and part of the daily workflow) to increase value. Perhaps this is why social learning is being resisted or put into a formal training box in many organizations.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It’s generally accepted that most of the learning that occurs within our organisations takes place outside formal training and learning events. Provide Experiences that Develop: Help employees obtain the experience at work that will help them develop over time 19.1% Discuss and reflect on objectives, progress and output 19.8%

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 19, 2009

Many Learning & Development managers spend a lot of their time thinking about ways in which they can make their departments more effective and provide real value to the organisation. a] Most employee development is in their hands, whether they appreciate that fact or not. Provide experiences that develop.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The further up the hierarchy we go – from K12 to college through University and into training and learning in our working lives – we notice the majority of the structured learning we’re offered contains lots of content for us to ‘know’ but very little opportunity for us build capability to ‘do’. This is a naïve view of the learning process.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 20, 2015

George Bernard Shaw Tom Spiglanin is a senior engineering specialist at the Aerospace Corporation in California and manager of the organisation’s technical training. The messages he conveyed in this short post struck me as having been missed by lots of people when they talk about the 70:20:10 model as a framework for learning and development.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 6, 2009

In early 1939 McGraw-Hill published a profound little book that should be on the reading list of everyone involved in learning and training today. Below I’ve recounted (and adapted) some of Professor Peddiwell’s lecture because I think we can learn from it when we reflect what’s happening in the training and development world.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

The ‘Best Practice’ Conundrum However, it seems that the majority of training and development approaches and processes are based on deterministic models. “ We first need to identify best practice ” is a cry often heard in HR and L&D departments as organisations set out on their journey to develop a high performing workforce.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 22, 2009

Our Changing World The world is moving on, people expect to get their learning and development online where possible, at a time that suits them, and in small chunks rather than 5-day off-the-job courses. And they're the same problems being faced by Reader's Digest. Old business models cannot be maintained forever. I could go on.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Trust and ‘A Seat at the Table’ Like HR, many training and learning departments have been trying for years to gain a seat at the top table in their organisation. Without a high level of trust anyL&D manager will find it almost impossible to embed a culture of learning in their organisation. Trust is qualified in a number of ways.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 29, 2009

Most L&D “flipping” is an attempt to ensure a better workforce development service to the organisation. The Global HR Director at Reuters and I developed this ‘C’ curve for L&D to help us make the initial changes. Some also “flip” between local and global accountability as well.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 5, 2018

He questions conventional beliefs about organisational development and has championed better ways to work and learn in the emerging networked workplace. Doug is known for his work which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces.

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Performance Learning Productivity

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The psychologist Itiel Dror has worked with forensic experts, police, armed forces personnel, pilots, surgeons and many other groups in his research into how experts in these fields have developed their capability and and how they process information and make their judgements and decisions. 702010forum.com #itashare'

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Briefly, the CLC survey found the following: L&D IS SEEN AS IMPORTANT BY MOST MANAGERS Employee development (and learning) is seen as important by most line managers. This will only happen if they embrace and develop an entire new range of professional capabilities. Many, however, are either struggling or not coping at all.

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Performance Learning Productivity

APRIL 7, 2010

Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. These questions are all about performance, not about training or learning. Some are intertwined with others. Some stand alone.

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