Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 20, 2021

Creating a sense of belonging is critical and you cannot make employees feel like they’re part of the team if you’re not showing appreciation for their lives, backgrounds, and ideas. Coaching is a powerful way to influence and empower employees to create a sense of belonging for themselves, as well as others.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Without seeing the impact of these new skills, the employee has zero idea of what the outcome should look like, how to use their skills appropriately, and how to connect processes to real life situations.

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MARCH 8, 2011

This can be detrimental to learners who need that interaction to assess their new skills against others, discuss ideas, and gain new perspectives. These are just a few ideas for social anchors that might help create a more social learning enabled environment for the lonely eLearner. I’d love to hear yours.

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APRIL 23, 2011

This can be especially true in the training field, where the training department’s ideas of success can be vastly different from a harried team manager who wants to minimize lost productivity due to excessive training. Since you may have only one immediate contact, often within the training department, it’s a good idea to dig deeper.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

The best aspects of the observed performances are emulated, and new ideas and innovations added. Ideas spawn from earlier ideas, bouncing from person to person and being reshaped as they go. As a result, the collective performance level of the group quickly skyrockets. Innovation has always been a group activity.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We train our clients’ employees on new systems, processes, and ideas, with the intention of helping them maximize their productivity while simultaneously minimizing disruption.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

We train our clients’ employees on new systems, processes, and ideas, with the intention of helping them maximize their productivity while simultaneously minimizing disruption.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Economists call this the 80/20 Principle or the Pareto Principle , which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the work will be done by 20 percent of the participants. Instead of relying on this collective to share ideas organically, however, try pushing a bit.

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MARCH 17, 2020

It’s been hard for these ideas to get traction, given that auditors tend to scrutinize training completion rates to assess regulatory compliance. Of those organizations, most considered training to be effective when between 90% and 95% of their learners finish it. But finally, the standards for compliance training are changing.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A relatively novel idea, customer education focuses on ensuring clients have the resources they need to succeed when interacting with your corporation. In recent years, customer education and training has become a large part of the learning and development field.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

A lot of great ideas need incubation time. I’ll take one more pass through, find another creative solution, add an extra bit of polish, reassess my decisions. Whatever it is that needs to be done, I’ll do it one more time. Whenever I feel satisfied with something, I’ll ask myself, “How can it make it even better?”

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MARCH 11, 2014

Though the idea has been around for 10 years or so, in recent months I have begun to hear more faint rumblings across my personal learning network (PLN) about the concepts of Micro-Learning and Integrated Micro-Learning. eLearning Learning Retention mobile learning blended learning elearning micro learning'

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APRIL 19, 2011

Companies like Hubspot (love them, by the way) that market themselves as “social media” or “inbound marketing” experts do have some great ideas on how to leverage social tools to increase traffic, sales leads, etc. But, in the end, they’re just ideas.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Twitter is where these extraordinary few reside, so leverage the few to learn and to exchange ideas and information. TweetDeck – I recently read an article stating that if you aren’t salaried by a big company to generate brand new ideas, it’s a waste of your time to do so. It’s a great way to stay current on industry happenings.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 22, 2011

View the video below to get an idea of how important on-floor communication between teammates is in basketball. From the minute you start playing basketball, coaches will never stop demanding communication on the court. The same should be demanded at work.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 4, 2011

Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. Wikis are an easy place to start the promotion of collaborative learning spaces, and clients seem to be willing and able to accept this informal tool into their everyday lives. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Companies like Hubspot (love them, by the way) that market themselves as “social media” or “inbound marketing” experts do have some great ideas on how to leverage social tools to increase traffic, sales leads, etc. But, in the end, they’re just ideas.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 5, 2011

Nothing new, really, but it reinforced the idea that effective training can only be accomplished by doing , not being told. Simple: as we all have, I drove someone home to a place I was unfamiliar with, and realized after dropping him off that I didn’t have the slightest clue how I had got there. So what did this teach me about learning?

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2011

The potential of such an idea is enormous, and its application is certainly not limited to the military arena. It’s those intersections where you see creativity occurring. The advantage of online crowd-sourcing is obvious: you have many more intersections and many more diverse backgrounds.”

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner by Jon on January 11, 2011 in Informal Learning , social learning The idea that right brained thinkers will dominate business in the coming century has been gaining momentum since it (..)

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

People pay way more attention to ideas and comments that are “out there,” and therefore memorable, than to those that are staid and commonplace, and therefore boring. In about a week, he has amassed more than 2 million followers on Twitter, and his catch phrases (“ winning ,” “ tiger blood ,” etc.) What’s the cause of all this attention?

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 4, 2014

Reflection in the context of learning can be described as linking ideas and constructing meaning from our experiences. John Dewey, a noted psychologist, philosopher and educational reformer, once said, “We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.”

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Here are some ideas for taking care of your SMEs. Clients will often ask what I see as the biggest risk or roadblock to end-user readiness. My answer is almost always SME availability; we simply cannot do our jobs without them.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Here are some ideas for taking care of your SMEs. Clients will often ask what I see as the biggest risk or roadblock to end-user readiness. My answer is almost always SME availability; we simply cannot do our jobs without them.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 20, 2014

His ideas were so charming and unusual that, even at that age, I realized we had a truly creative soul on our hands. (To When my nephew, Meir, was three or four years old, he used to tell me “stories” that were completely uninhibited by reality. To complete my “proud auntie” image, here’s a painting of… [Continue Reading.].

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Because this person had worked in training and development for a large mortgage company for many years and now works as a leadership development contractor, I thought she would be a great person with which to talk shop and brainstorm social learning ideas. However, conversation quickly turned to the temporary staffing industry in general.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 21, 2011

I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc.

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Dashe & Thomson

JULY 22, 2014

Hearing Von Glitschka’s assertion made me wonder about the instructional design industry.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 25, 2014

Over the past couple of years I have gained many new ideas and perspectives from both the #chat2lrn crew and those who take part in the chats. I am part of an international crew of L&D professionals that organizes and facilitates a bi-weekly chat on Twitter under the hashtag #chat2lrn.

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MARCH 29, 2011

I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. View all posts by Andrea → ← Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In?

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 8, 2014

The company caught my eye because I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of leveraging social media to encourage effective learning within the workplace and Learnist seemed to… [Continue Reading.]. The post 3 Ways Learnist Can Revolutionize Enterprise Learning appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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APRIL 17, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer. View all posts by Barbara → ← Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew?

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Called Prizes , the site is formulated on the concept of crowd-sourcing , an idea I’ve written about recently , and which I’m convinced offers a wonderful opportunity for corporations to reap the benefit of great ideas while engaging with their employees and consumers, all at very little cost.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 25, 2011

This helps encourage direct application and prevents learners from leaving the session without an idea for how they’re going to apply their new knowledge. Spend time asking your learners for ways in which they can apply the content to their current environment. Learners as Teachers.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” As a salesman I’ve been taught to avoid selling situations for buying ones.

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