Performance Learning Productivity

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

We measure how many people have attended a class or completed an eLearning module, or read a document or engaged in a job swap or in a coaching relationship. Attending a course or completing an eLearning module tells us little apart from the fact that some activity occurred. So why is there an obsession to gather this data?

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

Performance Learning Productivity

Let’s Forget About Events Undoubtedly instructional design is crucial if the mindset is learning events – modules, courses, programmes and curricula. If knowledge acquisition is the end-game, then the logical conclusion was to provide information that could be turned, whatever the magic employed, into knowledge in the recipient’s head.

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Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises

Performance Learning Productivity

Learning professionals spend a significant amount of their time (maybe even the majority) designing and delivering content and then evaluating completions and short-term memory outputs from structured mandatory and compliance training modules and courses. LMS technology has provided a big step forward here. This is already happening.

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Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations

Performance Learning Productivity

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. Like many HR departments, most L&D professionals pride themselves in having well-documented processes.