Performance Learning Productivity

MARCH 22, 2011

“we tell ourselves stories in order to live” Haruki Murakami Jerome Bruner (1915- ) is one of the greatest educational psychologists the world has ever produced. He has spent his long lifetime studying learning and the human mind.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Despite, or possibly because of, his own irregular early education he focused on learning as an important activity in life. Shaw and Work-Based Learning I recently came across Shaw’s quote about sensibility and his tailor again in Joseph Raelin’s book ‘ Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace ’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 10, 2017

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. 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).

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 5, 2016

The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Real Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organisation and/or on the wider stage.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 28, 2016

Yet one of the most useful tools for effective learning and development is reflection. Critical reflection is one of the four fundamental ways in which we learn and improve. This holds true for learning in the workplace and in life. As the late professor Allan Tough said ‘most of the learning is under the waterline’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 6, 2009

But I thought it a good starting point for a new blog about performance, learning and productivity. 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. By virtue of these characteristics Hammer-Fist was what was called ‘an educated man’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 1, 2014

ASTD data suggests US companies spent $164billion on employee learning and development in 2012 saying that ‘ despite a continuously changing economic environment, organizations remain committed to training and development’. Training as a panacea Most learning and training professionals now understand that training is not a universal panacea.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2016

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. 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).

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2016

Firstly, we know that learning is a powerful and continuous process that occurs daily at work and throughout life. 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.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 20, 2015

Tom is a rocket scientist and helps other helps rocket scientists learn their stuff. Recently Tom wrote a series of blogs titled ‘ Ten Things I Believe About Workplace Learning ’. Formal education has its place in preparing people for the workplace. That’s the nature of human learning. and through conversations.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 21, 2009

Last month Tony Karrer wrote an very insightful piece on his eLearning Technology blog about the Business of Learning. Tony equated the challenges of the learning industry to those of the publishing industry. The same applies to the Learning industry. The post and the discussion underneath it are well worth reading.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 5, 2015

The term ‘blended learning’ first appeared in the late-1990s when web-based learning solutions started to become more widely used and were integrated on one way or another with face-to-face methods. There are many other examples of ‘blending’ learning stretching back into the past, too. University of Salford, UK.

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