Performance Learning Productivity

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Why the Real Power of eLearning is Social

Performance Learning Productivity

Probably the first player on the enterprise eLearning block was the University of Illinois’ I’ve made a few changes to it here. Looking Back eLearning has been with us in one form or another for at least the past 50 years, maybe longer.

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70:20:10 - A Framework for High Performance Development Practices

Performance Learning Productivity

Research by the Corporate Executive Board [1] suggests that ‘enterprise contributors’ (as it calls the small cadre of high performers) can increase organisational revenue and profits by as much as 12%. That often means the difference between success and failure.

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The Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the retail industry

Performance Learning Productivity

Almost all individuals and enterprises are facing that. I recall using one enterprise LMS that required 13 clicks of a mouse (some counter-intuitive) to register and launch an eLearning module. A common strand runs through all of the above outcomes. Poor interface design is often the answer.

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Being Bold and Imagining the Different

Performance Learning Productivity

The need was perceived for a solid skill base to ‘feed’ the factories and enterprises on the back of building strong economies. This is understandable because many of today’s learning and development practices emerged during the second half of the 20th century.

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

Performance Learning Productivity

We know that formal education in many areas of enterprise does not have the impact we desire or expect. All this despite the fact we know that continuous learning in the context of the workflow is almost always the best way to develop proficiency and build high performance. It’s not just in driver education.

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

Performance Learning Productivity

if learning is work and work is learning, why is organizational learning controlled by a learning management systems (LMS) that isn’t connected to the work being done in the enterprise?” Harold Jarche, in a short but insightful piece , recently wrote: “.if

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

Performance Learning Productivity

The expectation now is that many workers, particularly the expanding number carrying out knowledge work, as well as people managers and executives in all enterprises, are always-on and hyper-connected. They, themselves, expect immediacy and real-time responses. Innovation is their driver and change is accepted as the norm.