Performance Learning Productivity

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When the Game's Up

Performance Learning Productivity

Training/L&D is a big business. And conversely, the time L&D staff spend ‘delivering courses/time in a training facility’ is still a staggering 46% – down just 3% from the previous year. This means that many Training/L&D staff only plan, develop and deliver ILT training and have no time to do anything else.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

Alternatives to ILT events The Internet has not only changed the way we communicate but also our concept of 'freely available'. Now I may be missing something here, but think ILT training companies such as Learning Tree need to go back to the drawing board and make more fundamental changes to their business models for a number of reasons.

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Accountability for Business Results

Performance Learning Productivity

If an L&D department is using sub-optimal approaches, flying ILT trainers around the world to deliver content-heavy classes for example, or is developing expensive media-rich eLearning programmes that only small numbers of employees need to use, it will likely be failing to deliver on these two requirements respectively.

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performance.learning.productivity: Getting to the Core of Learning Content in the Internet Age

Performance Learning Productivity

The further up the hierarchy we go – from K12 to college through University and into training and learning in our working lives – we notice the majority of the structured learning we’re offered contains lots of content for us to ‘know’ but very little opportunity for us build capability to ‘do’. This is a naïve view of the learning process.

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When it's just so obvious NOT to train it's painful to watch it happen

Performance Learning Productivity

The amount of time, effort and money wasted on formal ILT training prior to rollout or upgrade of enterprise platforms (particularly ERM and CRM) and other new software systems is really quite amazing. Training User Guides are quintessentially shelfware. Some managers and L&D people just don’t seem to get it.