I recently attended the American Society for Training and Development’s 2012 TechKnowledge conference , where over 1,200 attendees and 70 exhibitors got together in Las Vegas to talk about training, do some networking, and discuss the future of learning and technology. One theme that resonated most for me was about increased emphasis on data and data analysis — or what’s being called Big Data. This isn’t the traditional,  Kirkpatrick -style learning data most people think about, like post-workshop evaluations and test scores. Big ” Data’s untapped potential. MORE >>

Late last year, I stumbled upon the story of the hardworking woodcutter. It was shared by Dr Nupur Jaiswal in her article Engaging your. audience: Tips to try in Training & Development in Australia , 38(4). The story goes like this… There was a woodcutter. He used to work incredibly hard to ensure a good livelihood, but he always felt that his work was not giving him enough output. Every day he would decide to work harder and longer, but at the end of the day he would find his pile of wood smaller than the previous day. don’t have any time for sharpening my axe.” It will. MORE >>

Tweet My colleague Jane Hart asks who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer  (CCO)? It’s a good question, given the growing importance of working collaboratively in the 21st century workplace. Collaboration is a key part of creative work. Hugh Macleod pretty well sums up the core of the networked enterprise with this image: We live in a most interesting time in history. With the Internet, never before has it been so easy to collaborate, yet within many organizations it’s often more difficult. Workers must be motivated but there aren’t any Chief Motivation Officers.” MORE >>

We are all struggling with the ever-increasing amount of information that we need to manage. Websites, blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, newspapers, TV, radio to name a view of the overflowing sources that we need to manage and process. Steve Rosenbaum pointed out in his key note address at DevLearn that search engines like Google become less reliable and that we have to find other ways to manage the information overflow. decided to test Google myself. entered the search term ‘Kasper Spiro’ in Google, searching for images of myself. The rest has no relation to me at all. MORE >>

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”.                           -Buddhist Proverb. Conventional career wisdom advises that we should spend time knowing exactly where want to go and then take steps to get there. This wisdom assumes that there is some clear destination (a job) with a clear path of preparation that will take us to that destination. Our goal, then, is to figure out which destination feels best to us and then to follow the path toward that destination. This wisdom is outdated though. Or that the city has vanished altogether. . MORE >>