ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Here’s a link to my first ever blog post called Games in Corporate Training written at a time when most organizations thought that gamification in corporate training was a sacrilege. Blogging is one of the most critical and powerful personal learning and reflection tool.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The “how” or delivery of a good training program should also appeal to a learner’s emotions—perhaps through the use of simulations, stories, games, case studies, videos, movie clips, podcasts, anything that can engage the heart as well as the mind. Avoid cognitive overload, which means, don’t overplay on the learner’s analytical abilities.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Disruption is what happens when something new comes along that changes the underlying rules of the game. As Dion Hinchcliffe says in What are the Required Skills of Today''s Digital Workforce? If we are doing the disrupting, it can actually be very good for us. When it’s imposed on us, then the results usually tend to be unfortunate.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Be it retail or manufacturing, hospitality or pharma, automobile or telecom, the rules of the game are rapidly changing. While the future will continue to be unevenly distributed, it will eventually reach us wherever we are and in whichever industry we happen to operate. 2015 future_of_work L&D Workplace Learning'

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2010

Or, as I like to believe, she just enjoyed the game and didn’t care if the pigeon was there or not. Cat by then, all set to spring, was too far gone to stop herself, and would land looking extremely foolish. I wonder why she never learned. I got my room almost at the same time as Cat came to me.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2015

One of the ways to keep on top of our game, and remain on the cutting edge of relevant skills and knowledge is to be a part of communities of practices and to focus on building and maintaining our PLNs with a deliberate intention to learn, share and collaborate.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2015

Don’t we need to document so that in case a point comes when the blame-game starts (I assumed it would), we have our backs covered? Apparently not because there is no blame game! Dealing with ambiguity is the name of the game. There is no one to blame.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 21, 2014

The very nature of the game is changing. Ross Dawson in this brilliant infographic called out the trends that will affect the Future of Work from connectivity, crowd-sourcing, and remote work to work fragmentation, social expectations to economy of individuals—each a key trend in its own right. Past rules no longer hold good.

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ID Reflections

JULY 17, 2014

John Hagel describes this beautifully when writing about collaboration curves in the context of the hugely popular online game, the World of Warcraft: “ … the more participants–and interactions between those participants–you add to a carefully designed and nurtured environment, the more the rate of performance improvement goes up.

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Diversity Training Specialist Performance Support Write Blog 141

ID Reflections

JULY 3, 2014

Adding unnecessary games, locking progress and loading with irrelevant, good-to-know content is best avoided. The employee will choose what suits him/her best at that point. When designing compliance courses that have to be mandatory for the sake of the org, make them crisp and succinct. These are just some of the things we can do.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 12, 2015

Instead of seeing work as a zero-sum game with machines taking an ever greater share, we might see growing possibilities for employment. However, this HBR article takes a different view of automation and digitization of work, going beyond the gloom and doom mindset. We could reframe the threat of automation as an opportunity for augmentation.

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