Performance Learning Productivity

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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

Performance Learning Productivity

These are the things that help create an environment where change will happen. Dror speaks to the power of traumatic learning experiences that often create a reaction of horror in the learner. Old-fashioned content-centric training models away from the workplace simply don’t help terribly much. 702010forum.com #itashare'

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Language Learning - an Exemplar of the 70:20:10 Approach?

Performance Learning Productivity

The characteristics that helped us reach our dominant position on planet earth are intimately linked with our search for understanding and our social nature. We are all life-long learners. So we stretch ourselves and, where necessary, draw on help and look for resources to enable us to communicate better.

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It’s Only 65% !

Performance Learning Productivity

Training describes a structured set of events that when designed and assembled carefully can provide an effective way to help people accelerate learning (learning = behaviour change). The cyclist can take a detour at a moment’s notice to admire the scenery or help a fellow rider." We can’t help but learn as we live and work.

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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

Of course external factors – such as other people (especially your manager and your team), technology, prevailing culture, general ‘environmental’ factors, and a range of different elements – can support, facilitate, encourage, and help your learning occur faster, better, with greater impact and so on. That’s down to you alone.

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70:20:10 – Above All Else It’s a Change Agent

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Tom is a rocket scientist and helps other helps rocket scientists learn their stuff. We discover how to do our jobs through informal learning -- observing others, asking the person in the next cubicle, calling the help desk, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know. In other words, they’re rocket scientists.

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The Power of X – Experiential Learning in Today’s World

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Provide Experiences that Develop: Help employees obtain the experience at work that will help them develop over time 19.1% By providing experience that help their team members develop, and then working with them to ensure they learn from those experiences, managers are using two of the most powerful development levers available.

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

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In another research paper , Vlakveld reported that driving simulators may speed up skills acquisition, but will not help make novice drivers safer. In other words, simulations of real situations might help, but not necessarily in the way we might expect. That’s obvious. The answer to this is question is ‘not much, if at all’.