In a blog post while back i mentioned it might be nice to see the training function morph into something more akin to an organizational effectiveness unit in the next ten years.  And if you’re going to align processes with the content needed to perform them effectively, you need to know something about the technology that would deliver the content in accordance with job tasks. While So i enjoyed a  recent post (The Rise of the Chief Performance Officer) by knowledge management leader Tom Davenport where he suggests merging organizational groups that share performance improvement as their mission but come at it from different vantage points and methodologies. 

I've been thinking about a short commentary by Simon Caulkin in the The Observer last weekend on the power of the placebo effect in the business world.He picked out an interesting example which relates to the world of training and learning: Consider, Consider, for example, the experiment in an Israeli army boot camp recounted in Bob Sutton's quirky book Weird Ideas That Work.

Tips for Effective Webinars By Maria H. Andersen January 21, 2010 Giving an effective webinar requires some presentation redesign and technology skills that you dont necessarily need in a face-to-face presentation. Would a series of 10 images yield the same effect? Do not use a stand-alone microphone, A great speaker in a face-to-face environment can easily crash and burn in a webinar setting if he or she isnt prepared for the unique challenges and needs of that environment.

So, what are the techniques that could make you more effective, and possibly more interesting? Visual I’ve been looking into presenting and presentation techniques recently. Not everything is as straight forward as it may seem, yet other aspects seem so basic it’s a wonder how people cant’ see them themselves. So, Visual impact Pictures

Following on from yesterday’s post, connecting and communicating through effective conversations , I’d like to quote again from Dave Pollard’s experience with knowledge management: Interpersonal sharing can be more effective for some teams but it is time-consuming. The mainstream application of knowledge management, and I would include learning management, over the past few decades has got it all wrong. We have over-managed information because it’s easy and we’re still enamoured with information technology.

One of the challenges with making elearning effective is how you manage the courses and access to resources. Elearning is cost effective and can produce great results. Where do you see elearning’s effectiveness? E-learning is hot. And for good reason. If done right, it can produce great results by decreasing costs and improving

I've been thinking all night about what we could have done and should do in future to use our SME(s) more effectively. What you're doing in effect is not creating learning but an interactive Powerpoint deck. I write this blog because I'm a little upset about the fact that we used our SME as a glorified proofreader in a recent module, than someone who could actually provide shape to the learning and its activities. Here are a few thoughts and I write it from the perspective of what a client would like a professional e-learning consultant to do: Do your homework An SME is likely to be quite

So for me, it's not quite the folksonomy effect that most people talk about, but based on these articles, I'm starting to think that's what other people are finding as wel A couple of interesting recent posts and my experience in my Collaborative Learning Class has me thinking about the usefulness of Tags both personally and in workgroups. From Bill Ives - Where Tagging Works and Where Tagging Doesn’t Work – Search Engine Lowdown I guess I tend to agree with Danny Sulliivan about the tagging and search but that is not the original intention of tagging.

We lose the opportunity of using them effectively to deliver the message. In the 3 Idiots storyboard, transition is used effectively to move seamlessly across time - from past to the present. Apart from the regular dose of song and dance, the movie did not spend on expensive foreign locales and action effects. (Warning and Disclaimer: Those who have not watched the movie 3 Idiots may find it difficult to relate to the 3 I references. No attempts to lay claims on the box office proceeds from the movie. ;)

Wow, what a great presentation / video from Michael Wesch and the author of The Machine is Us presenting to the Library of Congress. It's an hour long, so make sure you give yourself tim